What are you listening to?

[Chas]

One of the best CD sets, ever. It will get me through this night shift at the hospital.

 

[anon`]

Arkona - Goi Rode Goi

 

[Harp]

A 78 featuring Rachmaninoff's Sorrow In Springtime (Op. 21/12 No.12). One of many of his works that will bring me to tears; it's beautiful, it's tragic and it's elegant all at once.

Rachmaninov, The Isle of the Dead, Op 29; 22.50.
symphonic poetry

 

[Shangas]

Cole Porter - "Anything Goes" (Piano & vocals solo). Recorded 1934.

 

[Fletch]

Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra in Hollywood is a swell 2 CD set put out by my former employers, Renovation Records.
Right now I'm playing a 1932 side called Evening, the debut of baritone Buddy Clark - as a tenor! (He didn't get very far, so he changed registers.)

 

[Fletch]

78s to wonder "What Were They Thinking?" by --

Starting off in 1942 with a smooth Kay Kyser recording of "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings." One of the great romantic ballads of the war era about being oh-so-in-love with a dashing manly pilot -- sung here without the slightest trace of irony by Harry Babbitt. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Of course, just change it to "She" and he could have been singing about a WASP.

Next, back to 1927 with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra and one of the hit tunes from "Show Boat." If you were to take a guess as to who might have been the very first vocalist ever to record "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," I'm pretty sure you *wouldn't* guess Franklyn Baur.

Baur was apparently known to be (quietly) gay (hang with 78 nuts in New York and you learn these things whether you care or not), so he wouldn't have been too wild a guess, really.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Digging into my vast archives

Just popped one of my old cassette tapes into the machine and came up with:

Nat Lewis and his Dance Band -- The Kerb Step (The Famous Daily Express Song) (1929)

...and don't ask me why the song was famous! lol

 

[Shangas]

Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Some of you may recognise this as the opening theme to Orson Welles's "Mercury Theater on the Air".

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Two from the Victor studio band The High Hatters.~~~

"I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" (w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
- Frank Luther with The High Hatters 1929


Annette Hanshaw covered this as well, but, the tempo is a bit slower. I wanted something more upbeat.

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"You For Me" (1930) Performed by the High Hatters Sung by Frank Luther Victor Orthophonic 22450

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[chanteuseCarey]

today was the CA Pops Orchestra "Big Broadcast of 2010" concert. A Spike Jones tribute with wild sound effects, medleys of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin tunes, three marimba soloists playing Saber Dance, and more! The concert was done as a Kraft Music Hall-type live 30s radio show format.

 

[Shangas]

Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra - 'S'Wonderful' :eusa_clap

 

[kools]

The weekend was all things Oscar Pettiford, 'specially his bass playing behind Coleman Hawkins & mid-1940s Ellington.

 

[HadleyH]

Early Dorsey Brothers. "By Heck" 1930s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsDq3XPNP2o

 

[theinterchange]

Today, I've been listening to "The Best of SATIE" it's my first introduction to the composer, and I've got to say I really like him so far.

Randy

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Duke Ellington- "Echoes of the Jungle"

...only it's a black & white, 1931 jungle...

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Dreamin' - Amos Lee

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[LizzieMaine]

78s to vacuum up matzo crumbs by --

Starting off in 1937 with Teddy Hill and his Orchestra and an agreeably bouncy, straight-ahead-dance-music rendition of "I'm Feeling Like A Million." Bill Dillard puts down his trumpet long enough to moo out the vocal. Sitting next to Bill on the bandstand is young Dizzy Gillespie, who sticks to the melody and keeps out of trouble.

Next, back to 1931 and Ben Selvin and his Orchestra show exactly how "Dancing In The Dark" is supposed to be played. Dick Robertson flexes a tonsil on the vocal.

 

[Mario]

Right now I can't take my ears away from a collection of Bessi Smith recordings from 1928-1933. I especially love 'Take It Right Back'. Gives me goose pimples evertime I hear it. Just listen to the lyrics! Great stuff!

Have a listen here.

 

[Redwoodjedi]

Currently I am listening to the Greatest Hits of the 30's and 40's CD starting with Rum and Coca Cola by The Andrew Sisters. Great CD.

RJ

 

[theinterchange]

Today's Musical Fare, Clogs

Clogs' Veil Waltz has seen rotation today.

Randy