What are you listening to?

[CopperNY]

Son House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN5vqEyV7g&feature=related

 

[Shangas]

Ray Noble and His Mayfair Dance Orchestra - "We've Got the Moon and Sixpence"

 

[Miss sofia]

Albert King - Personal manager, amongst others

 

[Packin' Heat]

The Third Man theme as covered by The George Garabedian Players.

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2007/08/232_059_The_George_Garabedian_Players_-_Third_Man_Theme.mp3

A fine variation on a superb song.

 

[Fletch]

keep vid...split aud

...is how I'm squirreling away music from a couple of online video services.

The first half of my header up there, plus dot com, is the name of a website that will upload the vids to your hardrive. From there you can use a sound editing app to save them as audio-only and port them to iTunes, iPod, etc.

This is, technically, a no-no, but so is video-streaming any 1924-71 recording. I'm only doing it because the DRM-bots are out zapping files off the larger of the 2 sites I visit - you never know what'll go down the tube. (The other site is one I check almost daily, but they've made no motion to use bots yet.)

Now playing a Swedish 78 - Sam Samsons Orkester covering Ellington's Lost in Meditation, made about the time Duke toured Scandinavia in 1939.

 

[Fletch]

Isham Jones...always

There's No Harm in Wishin' is an enjoyably laidback tune by Dave Franklin. Jones recorded it in December, 1934, and was also its publisher.

 

[Chas]

Ben Webster- "Love For Sale". Pretty amazing stuff.

 

[Berlin]

Bonnie And Clyde - Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte

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[Diamondback]

Once again, from the Thumderball soundtrack expanded-rerelease...

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Now playing: John Barry - Search for Vulcan
via FoxyTunes

 

[LizzieMaine]

Vintage radio to eat a very late corn flake supper by --

Now playing, Fred Allen's "Town Hall Tonight" for October 30, 1935. A Brazilian soprano has just bellowed out a piercing rendition of "Giannina Mia" during the Town Hall Amateurs segment, and is now being followed by a teenage violinist who must wait to go on until Mr. Allen finishes several obligatory Jack Benny jokes.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

From the Polish Syrena-Electro Label

Henryk Wars and his Orchestra -- Gonna Get A Girl (Czego Pan Sie Pcha)(1928)
Syrena-Electro 19723

 

[The Good]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTZIOi6pnA
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Le Samourai soundtrack, by Francois de Roubaix.

 

[Shangas]

Irving Kaufman - "Masculine Women, Feminine Men".

My favourite recording of this song, from 1926.

 

[p71towny]

Whatever A.M. 740 out of Toronto is playing. I can only get them in at night, but somehow it makes it to N.E. Indiana. They are a great station.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to look forward to a day of untangling a fouled curtain motor by --

Starting off in 1933 with Emil Coleman and his Orchestra, with a trundling but enjoyable arrangement of "Mine," the Gershwins' hit tune from "Let Them Eat Cake." The vocal is presented by a male chorus to accordion accompaniment, which I don't think is what George and Ira had in mind, but it works nonetheless.

Next, back to 1928 with the love theme for Zelma O'Neal and Jack Haley from "Follow Thru," "Button Up Your Overcoat," as squeaked and booped by Helen Kane. If Max Fleischer didn't own a copy of this record, I'd be shocked.

 

[Fletch]

I'm frankly surprised someone as back-to-basics as you has motorized curtains.

Right now I'm spinning a program called Scratchy Grooves, out of the University of Delaware. Each show is an hour of all original 78 pressings (hence the name - I think the clean copies all wound up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania), and they have an .mp3 archive at the link above.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm frankly surprised someone as back-to-basics as you has motorized curtains.

The stage curtain at work -- it jammed halfway open before the 8pm show Saturday night, and left me with a tangled mass of steel cable to unwind. The show must go on, and all.

Meanwhile, I am enjoying a rare day off today, to the accompaniment of --

From 1933, it's Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra and a definitively swinging "Honeysuckle Rose." If that don't get you moving, nothing will.

Next, skipping ahead to 1938 with Bob Hope and Shirley Ross and the definitive "Two Sleepy People." If Hope's career had taken just a slightly different turn he could have enjoyed a perfectly satisfying career as a romantic, singing leading man. If only that Crosby fellow hadn't pre-empted the territory.

 

[Fletch]

Oh that curtain. Oooooo, I shoulda thought of that. :eusa_doh:

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Eddie Cantor, Helen Kane, Paul Whiteman, Sophie Tucker and other early-mid 20s music to get me in the zone while working on some marketing things for Seattle Musical Theatre's upcoming (Nov & Dec) production of Chicago.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

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