What are you listening to?

[Fletch]

"Nächste Station Berlin...Berrrliiiin..."

Music: Expresszug - Eisenbahngalopp (Express Train - Railroad Galop). Saxophon-Orchester Dobbri, 1929.
Visuals from Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (The Symphony of the Great City). Walther Ruttmann, 1927.

Nächste is next, Station, you already know. There, you've learned your German for today.

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[Antje]

Rammstein, America
I did'nt listen to it for a long time.
But I still like this kinda music

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to burn some beans by --

Now playing, Dick Powell with another Warren-Dubin gem, as heard in Gold Diggers of 1935, "The Words Are In My Heart." Did those guys *ever* write a bad song?

Next, following a commercial for Chiclets Candy-Coated Chewing Gum, ahead to 1937 for "Slumming On Park Avenue," as given the uptown treatment by Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra. "Let's go smellin' where they're dwellin'" indeed.

 

[Ethan Bentley]

Saint-Saen - The Elephant

 

[Shangas]

Paul Whiteman - "Happy Feet" (Rec. 1930)

 

[Lady Day]

The Clash
Why? Because its The Clash! I see so many 13 and 14 year olds with Clash t shirts on, and I smile. I wonder if they actually *know* what a lot of their songs are about.

LD

 

[Fletch]

another great Dane

Tenor saxophonist Winstrup Olesen, "the Coleman Hawkins of Denmark," with his own composition - very much inspired by Hawk - and orchestra in 1937.

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[Fletch]

STREAMPUNK!

What was Claude Hopkins smoking that he hand his band could come up with a number like Mad Moments in a year like 1932? Never mind convince Columbia Records to release it?!
What radio waves from space were they tuned in on to create something that was all at once so intensely evocative of its day, while being so totally un-typical of it?

This is almost dangerous to listen to. It's the musical equivalent of joy-riding while intoxicated. High voltage, untested, experimental swing music busting out of the laboratory amidst acrid fumes and crackling blue sparks and sharp exposed whirly bits, and the ever present threat that it will all explode in a ball of fire at any moment, all to the hideous clanking of banjo and slapped string bass.

 

[anon`]

KMFDM - Bait & Switch

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait for a very dark morning to get lighter by --

First up, from 1934, Ted Weems and his Orchestra with "Heartaches," an arrangement that always sounded to me like it must have been written by a man being driven over a very bumpy dirt road in the back of an old pickup truck. Nice whistling solo by Elmo Tanner though. For inexplicable reasons, this record became a hit all over again in 1947. The war did funny things to people.

Next, ahead to 1937, and Claude Thornhill's elegantly-swinging version of "Loch Lomond," with equally-elegant vocal by Maxine Sullivan. Same arrangement Thornhill did for Benny Goodman and Martha Tilton, and always worth hearing no matter who does it.

 

[Delia's Gone]

It's a rainy fall day here. Listening to The Weepies, Deb Talan and Rachel Yamagata.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

The Stumble (Freddie King/Sonny Thompson)

A Hard Road is a 1967 Electric Blues album recorded by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Peter Green on lead guitar, John McVie on bass, Aynsley Dunbar on drums and John Almond.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyPYRJ5-JU&feature=fvw

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Harry Connick Jnr in Melbourne, Australia, and being interviewed on ABC radio, about his new Album "Your Songs" and a lovely rendition of "Smile" and Elton John's "Your Song"

http://www.connick.com/home

 

[MsStabby]

The Raveonettes & The Jesus & Mary Chain


I'm in a feedback/distortion frame of mind.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wish they'd hurry up and finish my ceiling by --

Now playing, another great side from 1935 by Fats Waller and his Rhythm, "How Can You Face Me?". "You know I didn't go to that place! No! I went to th' other one!"

Following that, a snappier-than-thou 1930 recording by Isham Jones and his Orchestra, with a fine Frank Sylvano vocal on "Lonesome Lover." If this one doesn't wake you up, call the undertaker.

 

[WinoJunko]

Listening to Vanity Kills by the Codeine Velvet Club

I think some of the folks from this forum might like them, they have a big band feel.

Check it out

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[John in Covina]

Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby" as I put together a Christmas compilation CD for a friend. Hurry down the chimney tonight!

 

[Fletch]

Following that, a snappier-than-thou 1930 recording by Isham Jones and his Orchestra, with a fine Frank Sylvano vocal on "Lonesome Lover." If this one doesn't wake you up, call the undertaker.

You're listening to THAT under a partially collapsed ceiling?
Good Lord, woman, GET OUT! GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!1!

"God help the floors above!"

 

[Ephraim Tutt]

The beat goes on...

Last week it was Getz/Gilberto. This week it's the one that started the whole Bossa Nova thing.

Jazz Samba

 

[Shangas]

The Andrews Sisters - "Boogie Woogie Bugle-Boy".