What are you listening to?

[Chas]

"Memories Of You" - Lionel Hampton on Decca. I want someone to break down my door and kill me dead after finding two big chunks taken out of "Two Minutes On 52nd Street". There is only so much that one guy can take.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Oh no, ruined/broken records make me cry too.

 

[Nathan Dodge]

Grachan Moncur III- Evolution

My second-favorite jazz recording of all time (#1 being the Bill Evans Trio's 1961 Village Vanguard recordings)

 

[rmrdaddy]

Doing some Sunday AM housework so I loaded the player with bop:

Charlie Parker - Swedish Schnapps +, Verve label
Monk and Mulligan - Mulligan Meets Monk, OJC label
Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin', Blue Note label
Miles Davis - The Musings of Miles, OJC label
Bill Evans - On Green Dolphin Street, OJC label

 

[Fletch]

George Olsen and his Music -- Learn To Croon (1933)
vocal by Fran Frey
Columbia 2788-D

You've been bamboozled, Vic. That's Fran Frey all right - Fran Frey and his Orchestra, really Ben Selvin's. Frey had left the Olsen Music and was starting out again as a radio conductor.

Playing 3rd alto sax, with no feature spots, is a young session man whose reputation as hard to deal with had cost him most of his work by 1933. His name: Benny Goodman.

 

[vitanola]

Oh no, ruined/broken records make me cry too.

Over the years I've come across four copies of the Bennie Moten Orchestra's recording of "Tough Breaks - Stomp", every one of which was cracked or was missing a half-moon chunk.

I'm seeking the disc still.

Definitely some "Tough Breaks"

 

[Fletch]

Mine was unbroken and a good E, but it was a buff-label Bluebird, not the original Victor V issue.

Hear Tough Breaks, recorded Sept. 6, 1928

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

A Few Iconic Recordings...

Brother Bones and his Shadows -- Sweet Georgia Brown (1949)
Tempo TR 652-A
(Harlem Globetrotters version)

Ray Anthony -- Dragnet (1953)
Capitol 2562

Desi Arnaz -- I Love Lucy
Columbia 39937

Yes, boys and girls, it actually has lyrics! lol

I love Lucy and she loves me
We're as happy as two can be
Sometimes we quarrel, but then
How we love making up again

Lucy kisses like no one can
She's my missus and I'm her man
And life is heaven, you see
Cause I love Lucy and Lucy loves me

 

[Fletch]

Chantant dans le bain

...would have been the title on this one if there'd been a vocal chorus.
Singin' in the Bathtub - Orchestre du Casino de Paris, 1930

In case you never learned the words, here they are.
Singin' in the Bathtub - The High Hatters, vocal by Frank Luther, 1929

Not everybody's happy when singin' in the tub.

 

[anon`]

Sonata Arctica - Don't Say A Word

 

[JennyLou]

Radiohead's In Rainbows
I recently fell in love with this album all over again.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Mike Markels and his Society Orchestra -- We Two (1927)
Okeh 40959

Lyrics
Forever just we two
A dream that we must see through
If only you'll trust me too
I'll make you my wife, will you?

If you would be with me
At breakfast and tea with me
Sign off and agree with me
To make it for life

If you want me to be exclusively yours
Just guarantee to be exclusively mine
And then, my pet, see to some church you can get me to
Then we'll be all set we too, and that will be fine

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Florence Desmond, was an impersonator in the 1930's


'Hope you aven't got a load of posh people here cos' if you have I'm not coming in!!!'


[YOUTUBE]DbY0bokxt8I[/YOUTUBE]

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to look down the gullet of another very long workday by --

Starting off in 1930 with the Newport Dance Orchestra -- yet another pseudonym for the Grey Gull Dance Orchestra, featuring Andy Sannella and a bunch of guys, on "I'm In The Market For You." Grey Gulls, with their stock arrangements and sandpaper surfaces, are considered the dregs of the 78 pile by a lot of snobby collector types, but we New Englanders love them. So there.

Next, following a commercial for Davis Baking Powder -- it's DOUBLE ACTING! -- it's another 1930 side, this time featuring the forgotten radio favorite Welcome "Half-Pint" Lewis, with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, doing an agreeable version of "A Darn Fool Woman Like Me." Miss Lewis was a crooner in the Annette Hanshaw/Marion Harris tradition who was all over the radio in the early thirties, but she only made a handful of records, cheating herself out of the cult following that the abovementioned ladies enjoy to this day. No doubt she now whiles away the hours in Forgotten Radio Purgatory playing gin rummy with Sylvia Froos.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Ultimate Jack Hylton Site

The Ultimate site for anyone into Jack Hylton

http://www.jackhylton.com/

As A Child I had an old 78 rpm Jack Hyltons " Zing Went the Strings Of My heart".... but it was the "B" side I love

OLGA PULLOFFSKI, THE BEAUTIFUL SPY
(Lee / Weston)

Len Bermon & Henry Hall


(Voice announcing arriving guests)

Colonel and Mrs Mango-Chutney
Major Curry of the 19th Member Force
Their Highnesses the Raja and Ranee of Mesomethuselum
Mademoiselle Olga Pulloffski

(Voice in alarm)
By Gad, get onto the War Office at once; it's Olga Pulloffski!

(Music begins)

The scene is a miltitary ballroom
The gallant and fair are the dancers
But who's the brunette
Who with eyes black as jet
Fascinates all the guards and the lancers?

She's Olga Pullofski, the beautiful spy
The gay continental rapscallion
Some say that she's Russian
And some say she's French
But her accent is gin and Italian

Shame on you, shame on you
Oh fie fie! (pronounced in a way that rhymes with "Oh high high")
Olga Pulloffski, you beautiful spy.

She's waltzes around with the general
And while on the floor they go whirling
She robs the old sport
Of the plans of the fort
And she'll sell them for ten million sterling

Olga Pullofski, the beautiful spy
Will soon make him know what disgrace is
She'll leave him with only
His top boots and spurs
And his pair of red, white and blue braces

Shame on you, shame on you
Oh fie fie!
Olga Pulloffski, you beautiful spy.

(Bell chimes once)
(Voice announcing the time in ringing tones)
Twelve o'clock and all's well.

(Voice echoing the other voice)
Twelve o'clock and alls weeeeeellll!!

The secrets of our Tower of London
She sold to some great foreign power
It was not Anne Boleyn
Who at midnight was seen
Walking round in the Adjective Tower

T'was Olga Pulloffski, the beautiful spy
The beefeater she bribed with kisses
Would willingly've given her all the crown jewels
But he'd lent them that night to the missus

Shame on you, shame on you
Oh fie fie!
Olga Pulloffski, you beautiful spy.

At last she was caught and courts-martialled
The Colonel said, "We hate to hurt you."
"Of course it's all rot,"
"But you've got to be shot."
And she powdered her nose and said, "Good show!"

She's Olga Pulloffski, the beautiful spy.
The firing squad tenderly kissed her
Then the Captain said, "Fire!"
When the smoke cleared away
They hollered, "Hooray! We've missed her!"

She is too young and too fair to die
Olga Pulloffski, the beautiful spy.

(music finishes up and then stops)
Shame on you, shame on you
Oh fie fie!
(music starts again)
Olga Pulloffski, you beautiful spy



(Transcribed by Mark Mac Namara - November 2003)

 

[Sincerely-Dee]

Can't stop listening to Smokestack Lightning by Howlin' Wolf. I'm enthralled.

 

[Wally_Hood]

Hank C. Burnette, Baby, Please Don't Go, and I Fought the Law, dominating my commute and treadmill listening

 

[Fletch]

So much work to do to save my degree, and so little time to do it, that there's been no music playing for days now.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

ANZAC related i know but Edward woodwards rendition of "Soldiers of the Queen"

[YOUTUBE]wx7M91XGuFY[/YOUTUBE]

 

[vitanola]

Hammers and saws.