What are you listening to?

[AmateisGal]

How do I go about finding a radio station that plays the classics?
either AM or FM

I use my Windows Media Player and click on the Internet Radio. TONS of online radio stations there! (and all free!)

 

[carouselvic]

Rich O'Brien....It's Christmas

Tis the season.

 

[flat-top]

The Gaslight Anthem's "Great Expectations".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Leo9HSaGQ&feature=related
A perfect song.

 

[Antje]

the Cadets, Meanwhile back in the jungle

 

[Harp]

WBBM 78* AM. Sports and Weather.
The Bears are probably going to lose tomorrow
And Chicago may be hit by a snow storm Monday night.

 

[Fletch]

Apple Blossoms (1929), by the Joe Venuti Blue Five.

 

[Fletch]

Maple Leaf Rag (1906), by the U.S. Marine Band, who snap it out handsomely indeed.

This is a rare disc, and not just because of its age. Ragtime wasn't welcome in most homes a century ago.
It was all right to hear in a show or concert, but not in the parlor - or anywhere people might be tempted to dance! [bad]

 

[angiebelle]

The Chop Tops. Revved up rockabilly!!!

 

[Mike1939]

Donovan, Universal Soldier

 

[Harp]

WBBM 78*AM Sports and Weather.

Bears won.
Snow storm still on for Monday night.

 

[Fletch]

I Can't Believe It's True, a great Isham Jones not-quite-hit of My Favorite Year, 1932.
Played by Russ Carlson's Crown Record ork, a 10 or 11pc "little big band" with a very big sound.
Singing saxophonist Harold van Emburgh puts it over. (I think he was the guy they called when they couldn't get Elmer Feldkamp.)
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[Fletch]

Two for Hadley

...who I know will appreciate the intimate baritone of Jack Miller.

A singing piano man out of Boston, Jack had a brief crooning career in the early 30s before settling down as Kate Smith's musical director for many years.
Herewith a 1932 Columbia coupling, Oh! What A Thrill and You're My Everything.

 

[Shangas]

Ray Noble and His Orchestra - "Fair and Warmer", recorded in 1934. Vocals by the delightful Mr. Al Bowlly.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to prepare for a double root-canal in a few hours by --

Starting off in 1931 with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees with one of the hits from "George White's Scandals," "The Thrill Is Gone." You ain't just singing thru your nose on that one, mister.

Next, ahead to 1937 with Fred Astaire and Johnny Green's Orchestra, and the most appropriate possible song for the day, "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off."

 

[Fletch]

Ow!

That's what ya call Heavy Traffic on Canal Street! - New Friends of Rhythm, 1945

Warning! High register clarinet solo. Don't listen without medication.

 

[Harp]

78s to prepare for a double root-canal in a few hours by --

... hang in there Liz.

Currently listening to "Bears Insider", WBBM 78*AM with Coach Lovie Smith.

 

[Fletch]

Just a little Hawaiian

Click to play
The break-thru hit that brought back the "sound of the islands" in 1934, in a version you're not likely to know about - by Norman Price's Peerless Trio, whose only record date this was. Just 3 boys and a guitar.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

I am loving this song. I will try to get the music and cover it..


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWz5LbRyRHw&feature=related

 

[Carlisle Blues]

If I could Be With You One Hour Tonight
McKinney's Cotton Pickers; George Thomas, vocal 1930
This was the band's theme song. In the '20s and '30s, racial segregation permeated all aspects of American society, including the music and recording industries. While the more famous black bands frequently performed for white-only audiences, the reverse was not the case. For jazz fans, the black bands of the era are often considered superior to the white and, as a result, their records are much more sought after and difficult to find. By the mid-'30s, the color barrier began to slowly fall when Benny Goodman hired black musicians such as Teddy Wilson and Fletcher Henderson - whose arrangements were largely responsible for Goodman's meteoric rise to being the "King of Swing."

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[Sarge]

I am listening to "What Did You Put In That Kiss" by Betty Hutton. Catchy little tune.

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