What are you listening to?

[anon`]

Abney Park - Under The Radar

 

[thecardigankid]

www.pandora.com

their New Orleans/Classic Jazz station

Very swell music on there!

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait for the Xmas Eve Headache Pills to kick in by --

Now playing, Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra in 1937, snapping things up "Quicker Than You Can Say Jack Robinson." No reference intended to a certain future Dodger infielder, who was still in high school at the time. And who probably really hated this song.

Next up, following a commercial for Colgate Dental Cream, which cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth, it's back to 1931 with Phil Spitalny and his Orchestra and Helen Rowland vocalizing on "Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee." Because Mister Herbert Hoover says Now's The Time To Buy.

 

[Chas]

Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philarmonic, disc 7. Illinois Jacquet is wailing out.

This man is/was my hero. In this pic he plays the sax I am saving up to buy - a Conn 10M.

 

[CliffG]

Prisencolinensinainciusol ADRIANO CELENTANO

I am Watching this video on youtube and I love the overcoat he is wearing at the first.
This is an Italian group that in the 70's wrote a song to sound like an American rock song with American words, but the words are gibberish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00&feature=related

 

[CliffG]

www.pandora.com

their New Orleans/Classic Jazz station

Very swell music on there!

indeed

 

[HadleyH]

I'm listening to this non-stop ..........

Omg how good were the dance bands from across the pond!

Jack Hylton "This Is The Rhythm For Me" 1930s

great sound! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlvXY2aeQjw&feature=PlayList&p=49063B316846AD5D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=53

J.Hylton and his Orchestra

 

[Fletch]

Playing My Saxophone - Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orch., 1930.
He does play his (alto) saxophone, tho he was better known as a purveyor of bluesy hokum on the clarinet.
That may be why RCA waited till 1932 to put out the record - perhaps hoping it would pass unnoticed.

It takes technique to play this silly and not have it bite you in the beehind.
For instance, Fess blows high harmonics, something most sax players didn't do till generations later.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Annette Hanshaw - That's You Baby 1929....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOEC9ikTgSQ&feature=related

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

For those of you dreaming of warmer climes...

Harry Owens Royal Hawaiian Orchestra -- Cocoanut Grove (1938)

Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Waikiki
built 1927

 

[Lady Day]

Spoon on shuffle.

LD

 

[Fletch]

Another fave voice

The short-lived Buddy Clark, here with 2 standout examples of the "blue" songs that proliferated in the era.

Like a Bolt from the Blue, Benny Goodman Music Hall Orch., 1934
Midnight Blue, Dick McDonough Orch., 1936

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Annette Hanshaw sings "Ain't Cha", recorded in New York on November 27, 1929. Harmony 1075-H.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrzFefTau9I

 

[HadleyH]

The short-lived Buddy Clark, here with 2 standout examples of the "blue" songs that proliferated in the era.

Like a Bolt from the Blue, Benny Goodman Music Hall Orch., 1934

Like a Bolt From The Blue! Beautiful Fletch! :eusa_clap


Thank you.

 

[Fletch]

BTW Hadley, I sing that number and I don't do too badly by it, either.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Its a Public holiday and i am housebound due to 104 degree temperature, outside!! not my body! thank heavens for "Aunty" ABC Wireless programs"


Program 1 of 5
A Little Travelling Music, Please

http://www.abc.net.au/classic/daily/stories/s2746509.htm

The Past and the Curious is devoted to the music of the 1920s to the 1950s - from the charleston to the cha-cha, from crooning to calypso, from Down in the Depths to The High and the Mighty. The first program of this new series is full of music devoted to the joys of travel and to the excitement of destinations near, far and unpredictable - including Christmas Island and Ballarat. And to mark the seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, we'll explore the meaning of some of the music written about life in war-time.

Haymes Curtain Time - The Haymes-Mundy Orch
20th Century Fox LP "That's All" TFS 4142 2'09
Loesser On a Slow Boat to China - Peter Nero; orch/Marty Gold:
"Hail the Conquering Nero/New Piano in Town" Collectables COL-CD 2760 2'43
(Cole) Porter Let's Fly Away - Jeri Southern; Billy May and His Orch
Capitol/EMI CD "Meets Cole Porter/...At the Crescendo" 7243 8 56057 27 2'31
Iona-Shapiro Hawaiian Interlude - George Kainapau
Festival LP FL-30.057 (originally American Decca DL-4059) "The Golden Voice of Hawaii" 3'24
David-Bacharach Do You Know the Way to San Jose? - Living Jazz, arranged and conducted by Phil Bodner
RCA Camden LP CAS-2298 "The Fool on the Hill" 2'28
Anon. adapted/arranged Swingle Country Dances: Arkansas Traveller/College Hornpipe/Devil's Dream/Old Zip Coon/Virginia Reel/Pop Goes the Weasel - The Swingle Singers
Philips CD 0602498305553 "American Look" 2'13
Dubin-Warren Lullaby of Broadway - Ted Heath and His Music
Dutton Vocalion CD CDLK 4248 "Ted Heath's First American Tour/...at Carnegie Hall" 2'35
Harburg-Lane Kerry Dance (trad)/How Are Things in Glocca Morra - Robert Farnon and His Orch
Dutton Vocalion CD CDLK 4100 "From the Highlands/From the Emerald Isle" 4'25
Buck-Stamper Tulip Time - Andrews Sisters; orch/Vic Schoen
Capitol CD CDP 07777 80181 "24 Far Away Places - Capitol Sings Around the World" 3'10
Monnot-Lawrence The Poor People of Paris - Xavier Cugat and His Orch
Mercury LP WC 16345 "Cugat Plays Continental Hits" 2'24
McCarthy Jr/Coleman, arr. Coleman The Riviera - Mabel Mercer; combo led by Cy Coleman, p
Collectables Jazz Classics CD COL-CD 6838 "The Art of Mabel Mercer" 3'23
Lecuona Andalucia - Henry Mancini and His Orch
RCA LP INTS 1442 "The Latin Sound of Henry Mancini" (rec 1965) 3'03
Moraine Christmas Island - Bob Atcher and the Dinning Sisters
Capitol CD 7243 8 21457 21 "Christmas Cocktails Part 2" 2'28
Stoneham-Bevan Home to Ballaarat - 2FC Studio Dance Orch/by Eric Pearse
Crystal Stream Audio CD IDCD 125 "Australian Dance Bands" (rec 1927) 2'50
Clare-Roy They Can't Black Out the Moon - Anne Lenner and Eric Whiteley, voc; Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Dutton Vocalion CD "Broadway Rhythm" CDEA 6047 2'31
Jones The Deepest Shelter in Town - Florence Desmond, piano acc
EMI CD 1662952 "When the War Came to Australia" (rec 1941) 2'38
Kennedy-Carr We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line - Jack Carpenter and Band, voc; Jim Davidson and his ABC Dance Orch
EMI CD 1662952 "When the War Came to Australia recorded 1939" 2'23
Produced and presented by Phillip Samet

 

[Mountain Man]

For some really good, fairly obscure music, here are a couple of interesting sources: www.redhotjazz.com and thomas edison's attic. The latter is actually the archives of a radio show that quit broadcasting in 2007, but is full of early 20th century music of all genres

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/te
http://www.redhotjazz.com/

Try these out and enjoy!!

 

[HadleyH]

BTW Hadley, I sing that number and I don't do too badly by it, either.

You do? I for one would like very much to hear it? can I?

 

[Mountain Man]

78s to catch up from oversleeping by --

Starting off in 1935 with a selection from "Porgy and Bess," as performed by the original Sportin' Life, Avon Long, backed by Leo Reisman and his Orchestra, "I Got Plenty Of Nuttin'." Somebody's been looking at my bank statements.

Next, the Milt Herth Trio in 1939 with a brain-worming rendition of "Monkeys Have No Tails In Pago Pago." There's just something about a hot Hammond organ solo that brings out the majesty in a silly thirties novelty tune.

There was a scene in "Donovan's Reef" where Lee Marvin cranks up a victrola and and the scratched record belts out "O' the monkeys have no tails in Pago Pago...in Pago Pago...in Pago Pago..." And John Wayne walks off singing a snatch of the same song in another scene. Would like to hear it in its entirety sometime!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Sam Lanin and his Orchestra -- Tonight's My Night With Baby (1926)
vocal by Irving Kaufman
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