What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

Opening Day 1969 -- the Yankees meet the Washington Senators at RFK Stadium. Ted Williams's debut as a major league manager. I figure if I listen to as much baseball as possible over the next five months, I won't have to admit that it's winter.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78 on RCA Victor label

A - "Friendship" by Tommy Dorsey Family (Mountain Branch)

B - "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Hollywood Hillbillies with singing



So is anyone familiar with these? I get the idea they might be sort of Tongue-in-cheek spoofs playing off the country/hillbilly fad, but am not having any luck yet with a google search.

thanks y'all

Well, "Friendship" was from a Cole Porter musical, "Dubarry Was A Lady," and was intended to be sung in a sort of mock-hokum manner, so most of the recordings followed that lead. The only one that might be cornier than the Dorsey one you have is the Kay Kyser version, and that's only because Dorsey didn't have Ish Kabibble on his team...

 

[Antje]

Franky lymon and the teenagers, I'm not a juvenile delinquent

 

[imported_miss_molly]

Random playlist - the Mills Brothers, Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, amongst others.

 

[docneg]

78 on RCA Victor label

A - "Friendship" by Tommy Dorsey Family (Mountain Branch)

B - "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Hollywood Hillbillies with singing



So is anyone familiar with these? I get the idea they might be sort of Tongue-in-cheek spoofs playing off the country/hillbilly fad, but am not having any luck yet with a google search.

thanks y'all

I remember a 78 we had when I was a kid, a hillbilly comedy version of "I Love You (For Sentimental Reasons)" called "I Love You (Fer Seventy Mental Reasons)". I don't recall the band, but I used to laugh like a hyena over it.

 

[THe Conductor]

Just got back from a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy concert. Always a great show.

 

[Hamilton_Honey]

Well, "Friendship" was from a Cole Porter musical, "Dubarry Was A Lady," and was intended to be sung in a sort of mock-hokum manner, so most of the recordings followed that lead. The only one that might be cornier than the Dorsey one you have is the Kay Kyser version, and that's only because Dorsey didn't have Ish Kabibble on his team...

Thanks Lizzie - somehow I thought you might know something about this

 

[Shangas]

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - "Goosey Goosey"

 

[analiebe]

cab calloway - st. james infirmary

 

[Shangas]

Helen Kane - "I Wanna Be Loved By You" (1928)

I'm not one of the greedy kind,
All of my wants are simple,
I know what's on my mind,

I'm not resting until I find,
What would make your eyes glisten,
With joy? Now listen, big boy!

I wanna be loved by you!
Just you, nobody else but you!
I wanna be loved by you,
Aloooone! Boop-boop-a-doop!

I wanna be kissed by you,
Just you and nobody else but you!
I wanna be kissed by you,
Aloooone! Bah-bap-bah-doo...

I couldn't aspire!
To anything higher!
And filled with desire,
To make you my own,
Bump-ba-lump-bah-dum,
Dee-lah-dum!

I wanna be loved by you,
Just you, nobody else but you!
I wanna be loved by you,
Alooooone!

Yumpy-dumpy-dumpy-dump,
Boop-boop-a-doop!

If the lyrics sound a little familiar, that's probably because Helen Kane was the inspiration for Betty Boop! ("oop-boop-a-doop!...hehe!")

 

[PADDY]

As I paint...

Listening to Artie Shaw and Cab Calloway

 

[Lillemor]

Yesterday I put up with my 76 y.o. father in-law playing Danish everygreens (folk, slager, "viser") on his violin. I know I'm ungrateful. It's just not my thing. He plays in two senior bands and I think it's great he's doing something he enjoys. He'll just have to enjoy it without me. I tried to cure it with Emmylou Harris bluegrass and country music today.

 

[Falconetti]

In rotation today...

The Best of Milt Jackson

and various Eartha Kitt.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

We just got back from the West Coast Ragtime Festival that was held in Sacramento, CA on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11/20-22/2009. Yes, we pulled our children out of school on Friday to go to this.The Festival was beyond incredible- we heard Ragtime (and lots of Gershwin too) music Friday from noon to 11pm, Sat. 9am-11pm and Sunday 9am-6pm.

One of the highlights of the weekend was a duet set performed Saturday evening by two amazing pianists; Frederick Hodges of CA and Richard Dowling of TX. For the finale of the set they played a 20 minute long "Fantasia" suite based on themes from George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess". We were all cheering and clapping after each of their pieces like attendees at a modern rock concert, most especially after the final piece of course- I think they were both very surprised by the WCRF attendee's reactions! I ended up being hoarse the next day from it and kept losing my voice when I tried to speak!

Here's YouTube vids of the two of them. I was fortunate to see them play these pieces at the WCRFestival.

First up, Richard Dowling of TX and NY playing Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"
Part one of two
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Part two of two
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Next, Frederick Hodges of CA first playing "Lover"
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then "Lion Tamer Rag"
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[PADDY]

Al Bowley.

And loving it.

 

[Shangas]

Roy Fox Band - "Keep Young and Beautiful" (Rec. 1933)

 

[Fletch]

More Danish

Danish movie musicals in the 30s tended to have cutesy, nursery-rhyme songs. But this clip from 1934 is pretty impressive for the Copenhagen street scenes, and the fact that they had only been doing sound films for 3 years and here they were doing a musical number on bicycles.
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Underholdning means entertainment, not what you did to your little brother when swimming.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Perfect for this rainy evening "Rainy Days and Mondays" by the Carptenters.

 

[Shangas]

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - "Sing, Sing, Sing".

I need something to cheer me up...this ought to do it...maybe.

 

[analiebe]

bessie smith... i've got the blues, so who better?