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What are you listening to?

LizzieMaine

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Getting started on a day of transferring some radio programs with Fred Allen and company in the Texaco Star Theatre from May 28, 1941. This was during the height of the ASCAP radio ban, so there's plenty of music you never heard before and will never hear again. However, Mr. Allen does a fascinating interview with a horse dentist, which is also something you've never heard before and will never hear again.
 

Edward

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At university, I was briefly in a band called The Horse Dentists (an obscure Father Ted reference), though we only lasted two rehearsals. Never did have a drummer.... heh.

This last couple of weeks I have mostly been listening to Imelda May's new album, Mayhem, interspersed with The Vaselines number I hate the 80s.
 

Fletch

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Getting started on a day of transferring some radio programs with Fred Allen and company in the Texaco Star Theatre from May 28, 1941. This was during the height of the ASCAP radio ban, so there's plenty of music you never heard before and will never hear again. However, Mr. Allen does a fascinating interview with a horse dentist, which is also something you've never heard before and will never hear again.
More precisely, due to the man-made rat's nest of OTR rights issues, it's something we've never heard comma and will never hear period.

I did back out of my blackout a bit after posting last night, listening to some "paired takes" of Bix-era Whiteman on the Tube. Amazing how little space Bix, Tram et al got on some of those sides, yet how good they are anyway. I was taught as a kid, by old-school jazz writers, to listen only for the soloists. I'm glad I unlearned that.
 
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Wally_Hood

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I think you're right about the above. I just started listening to Big Band music again today, after a 3 week blitz of British Invasion Rock 'n' Roll (which I also love).

While I enjoy swing and big band, I also have various other genres on my player, such as surf guitar, lounge, almost any high energy rock 'n' roll (be it new wave, eighties junk, or something along the lines of Rancid or Elvis Costello). I tend to select the music according to my mood and the situation. It's not unusual to go from George Thorogood to Blues Travelers to Katrina and the Waves, with some sixties lounge via Cocktail Nation thrown in.
 

Nik Taylor

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Ben Bernie Orchestra - "I'm Yours" 1930

-How can i
help

dreaming of you?

I love you

I'm yours


[video=youtube;KVFVj74C-Os]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVFVj74C-Os[/video]

^^^
This is a lovely tune

Ben Bernie, Fats Waller- I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling,1929

[video=youtube;tqqBunpTsAY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqBunpTsAY&feature=related[/video]
 

Chas

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Ella Fitzgerald mostly, these days. She is definitely creeping into my sax technique. I have played this 3 times in a row this evening. Driven we are, precious.


Ignore the bad video; concentrate on the music!!

[video=youtube;yp4diDrlfrI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp4diDrlfrI[/video]

[video=youtube;DEaDj6TXiQQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEaDj6TXiQQ&feature=related[/video]
 
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davidraphael

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The great Bernard Herrmann!

Although he's most famous for his Kane, Hitchcock and fantasy scores, I recently acquired some rarer stuff: On Dangerous Ground, Devil and Daniel Webster, TV work as well as some of his non-film work: Symphony no 1, The Fantastiks, Moby Dick cantata, sinfonietta, Jazz suites, etc.

[video=youtube;bjsPc2bEedU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjsPc2bEedU[/video]
 

BinkieBaumont

Rude Once Too Often
"Florence Foster-Jenkins played her farewell concert to a sold out audience at Carnegie Hall on this day October 25th 1944, she died a month later"

[video=youtube;qtf2Q4yyuJ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0&feature=related[/video]


[video=youtube;m3v8mNwY4Y8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3v8mNwY4Y8&feature=channel[/video]
 
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Marla

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Guilty by Al Bowlly. What a voice... *sigh*
[video=youtube;CfSZARFUvnM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfSZARFUvnM&feature=related[/video]
 

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