What are you listening to?

[John in Covina]

Normal as Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day

WoW!

 

[JennyLou]

Debussey's Prelude to an Afternoon Fawn

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"The Big Show" with Tallulah Bankhead's new Years Eve show 0f 1950, with Guests including 12yo Margaret O'Brien"

"Tallulah tells Margret she will tell her all about "New Years Eve" to which Margret replies "I'd Rather here all About Eve"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihpe5sOW-Hc

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Mr. Thomas "Fats" Waller at the piano playing his own composition of...

I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling (1929)

 

[BinkieBaumont]

2010

"Soundtrack to the Sci fi Movie 2010"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_(film)

 

[Nathan Dodge]

"The Big Show" with Tallulah Bankhead's new Years Eve show 0f 1950, with Guests including 12yo Margaret O'Brien"

"Tallulah tells Margret she will tell her all about "New Years Eve" to which Margret replies "I'd Rather here all About Eve"

I can't help but think of TB's foul-mouthed Bette Davis-related remarks after reading this. I wish I could share it here....

 

[Fletch]

Caution: Mad Hungarian

I don't know a thing about Oskar Dénes, except that he was a popular comic all across Europe, and if this record is anything to go on, an extraordinarily goofy and manic singer.

Do-Do-Do, with Paul Godwin's Orchestra in Berlin in 1930
Not the Gershwin song, but a zippy novelty by Hungarian songwriter Paul Abraham.
I think he's singing in German, or at least German gibberish plus scat syllables, but I don't know enough to make out more than a few words.

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

"Two Coconut Shells, a Blow Lamp and a Raspberry"

I've been away over the holidays so I've been catching up on my New Time Radio via the BBC's Listen Again sites. This one's a program about radio sound effects innovations during the golden era of the BBC's Broadcasting House productions. On Radio 7's Listen Again site through next Sunday morning, good listening if you're an OTR fan.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to pay a mess of bills by --

Starting off in 1931 with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees with an extra-length arrangement of "Was That The Human Thing To Do?" This was one of Rudy's cardboard "Hit Of The Week" records, sold on newsstands for 15 cents -- a Depression phenomenon that pumped a tiny spark of energy into the otherwise moribund record business. Rudy's Maine accent comes thru loud and clear on this side -- "Always thought you had a hahhhht of gold..." Ayuh, yessah.

Next, skipping ahead to 1939 with Chick Webb and his Orchestra, and young Ella Fitzgerald on the vocal for "I Want The Waiter With The Water", one of a long, long line of silly novelty tunes she had to do in the wake of "A Tisket A Tasket." Things would eventually improve.

 

[Edward]

Santa brought me a great recording of Bizet's Carmen on double CD, and I've mostly been listening to that the past few days. Before that, I spent the run up to Christmas listening to Elvis' Christmas Peace, a mix of Christmas standards and traditional carols which really made the most of his voice.

 

[Lenore]

Santa brought me a great recording of Bizet's Carmen on double CD...

Lucky you.. and smart santa!

 

[Antje]

Santa brought me a great recording of Bizet's Carmen on double CD, and I've mostly been listening to that the past few days. Before that, I spent the run up to Christmas listening to Elvis' Christmas Peace, a mix of Christmas standards and traditional carols which really made the most of his voice.

That is an amazing cd of Elvis.

Now listening to Allison Krauss, Graceland

 

[Fletch]

"Was That The Human Thing To Do?"

I can also endorse Ben Selvin's version - it swings, something Rudy seldom deigned to do, and has one of my favorite canaries, Helen Rowland.

I would also recommend Lud Gluskin's rendition on French Pathé - big-toned with a righteous beat - except it's so rare you're not likely ever to hear it.

 

[The Captain]

Well, thanks to a FL member, I am listening to WKHR.ORG streaming great music from the 30s-50s and I couldn't be happier. Ella, Lady Day, Bing, The Andrews Sisters, and BIG BANDS. Excellent!

 

[Lenore]

Well, thanks to a FL member, I am listening to WKHR.ORG streaming great music from the 30s-50s and I couldn't be happier. Ella, Lady Day, Bing, The Andrews Sisters, and BIG BANDS. Excellent!

Number Two on my list of favorite "radio" stations on my computer, right after KCEA.org.

 

[vitanola]

Paramount 12868 "My Man Blues", Alice Moore
Brunswick 3568 "Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp" Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
HMV B.4865 "Hot Feet" Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orch.
Victor 20647 "Tiger Rag" Charles Dornberger & His Orchestra
Banner 6383 "Jehrico" Fred Rich & His Orch.
Romeo 502 "What'll You Do?" Sam Lanin & His Troubadors
Columbia 4420 "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
Victor 21056 "Make My Cot (Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows)" Red Nichols'
Stompers
Brunswick 7062 "Pass the Jug" Kansas City Frank
OkeH 40923 "At the Jazz Band Ball" Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang
Cameo 782 "I'm Knee Deep in Dasies (and Head Over Heels in Love)" Broadway Broadcasters
Victor 21944 "My Kinda Love" Ben Pollack & His Park Central Orchestra
Victor 19652 "Lady of the Nile" Howard Lanin & His Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra

 

[Shangas]

I'm listening to about a half-dozen artists all at once!

At the moment, it's Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - "Broadway Rhythm" (from 1935, I believe).

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to put black tape over my "Check Engine" light by --

Starting off with George Hall and his Hotel Taft Orchestra in 1936 with a dandy Dolly Dawn vocal on "I Stumbled Over Love." Watch your step, sister.

Next, Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra in 1933 with the Debutantes getting all Hawaiian on the vocal on "King Kamehamena." No doubt when they did this one on stage, Ted wore a grass skirt.

 

[Mysterious Mose]

Paramount 12868 "My Man Blues", Alice Moore
Brunswick 3568 "Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp" Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers
HMV B.4865 "Hot Feet" Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orch.
Victor 20647 "Tiger Rag" Charles Dornberger & His Orchestra
Banner 6383 "Jehrico" Fred Rich & His Orch.
Romeo 502 "What'll You Do?" Sam Lanin & His Troubadors
Columbia 4420 "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
Victor 21056 "Make My Cot (Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows)" Red Nichols'
Stompers
Brunswick 7062 "Pass the Jug" Kansas City Frank
OkeH 40923 "At the Jazz Band Ball" Bix Beiderbecke & His Gang
Cameo 782 "I'm Knee Deep in Dasies (and Head Over Heels in Love)" Broadway Broadcasters
Victor 21944 "My Kinda Love" Ben Pollack & His Park Central Orchestra
Victor 19652 "Lady of the Nile" Howard Lanin & His Benjamin Franklin Hotel Orchestra

EXCELLENT!!!
Come on and Stomp... & Pass the Jug, it doesn't get any better for me.
(Any band called Somewhere something Footwarmers or Something somewhere something-Stompers is bound to be excellent.)

 

[Fletch]

Dismukin' it

Delta Bound - Chick Bullock & his Levee Loungers, 1933, featuring an unusual amount of Jimmy Dorsey's alto sax.

That's What I Call Keen - Eddie South & his Alabamians (it's hard not to type "Abalamians"), 1928. Eddie fiddlin' up a mess and the band doubles as vocal quartet.

Sweet Jennie Lee - The National Cavaliers, 1930. Proper close quartet harmony à la The Revelers.

Negra Soy (rumba) - Nilo Menendez y su Orquesta, 1934. The classic Cuban style of muted trumpet, piano and a whole buncha percussion. Cantado en español.

A Harlem Symphony (Part 1) - Spike Hughes & his Orch., 1932. An interesting experiment in Ellingtonia that actually doesn't sound like imitation Duke.

Singing Between Kisses - Joe Haymes & his Orch., 1934. Bud Freeman features with the snappy proto-swing outfit then resident at New York's McAlpin Hotel.

Just some of the delights to be heard over streaming Radio Dismuke.