What are you listening to?

[Berlin]

My Marilyn by Ray Anthony
[video=youtube;O93TFdHcoqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93TFdHcoqU[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to breakfast on oatmeal and Excedrin by --

Starting off in 1927 with the one, the only, the definitive Al Jolson record, as he gets down on one knee for "Mammy." Somewhere, Eugenie Besserer is smiling.

Next, following a commercial for St. Joseph's Aspirin -- which wouldn't make a dent in my head this morning -- it's 1936 with Mildred Bailey and her Orchestra going in for discipline and "I'd Love To Take Orders From You." I wonder what Red thought of that?

 

[davidraphael]

It's Penguin Cafe Orchestra for me today!

[video=youtube;FvbCV6E0Wro]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvbCV6E0Wro[/video]

 

[DesertDan]

Audioslave - first CD
Started the "morning drive" with Grand Funk Railroad and Gary Wright.

 

[Fletch]

Lord help me, Lime in the Coconut by the Muppet Show Players, 1979.

 

[DesertDan]

I'll see your "Lime in the Coconut" and raise you a...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA90IlymdZ4&feature=related

 

[lolly_loisides]

How about Kermit singing Lydia the tattooed lady?
[video=youtube;EHXZA_5XMJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXZA_5XMJ4[/video]

 

[chanteuseCarey]

How about Kermit singing Lydia the tattooed lady?
[video=youtube;EHXZA_5XMJ4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXZA_5XMJ4[/video]

I have a kid's CD by Michael Feinstein singing this that I just love. "For two bits she will do a Mazurka in jazz, with a view of Niagara that nobody has, and on a clear day you can see Alcatraz..."

 

[Nik Taylor]

Call Me

[video=youtube;bUCM5nK87mE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCM5nK87mE&feature=related[/video]

 

[lolly_loisides]

One more Muppet post & I promise to stop. Dizzie Gillespie!
[video=youtube;bVviJrux78w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVviJrux78w&feature=related[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Ted Weems, whose name sounds like a Muppet's, breaks the streak with Talk of the Town, 1928, The Man from the South, 1929, and I Lost My Gal Again, 1931.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Happy 83rd Birthday Dame Cleo Lane"

[video=youtube;5e6-TtsoUVs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e6-TtsoUVs&feature=related[/video]

 

[StetsonHomburg]

[video=youtube;MK-E6usMmi4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK-E6usMmi4&feature=watch_response[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

Tonight's radio accompaniment to the corn flakes --

It's 11/20/38, and broadcasting over NBC's Blue network from the Hotel Lexington, it's the soothing melodies of Ray Kinney and his Hawaiians. A mickey-mouseish dance band with a twist -- alongside the Sammy Kaye-style lockstep saxes, there's ukeleles and a steel guitar, and a mixed quartet doing what sounds like reasonably Hawaiian-style vocals. In the days of high-concept dance bands, this was one of the highest.

And you just know the room was decorated with paper palm trees.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Marilyn Monroe -- I Wanna Be Loved By You

[video=youtube;ZzDU4MREVMQ]http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDU4MREVMQ[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I'm also an anime fan so here's something of a slight departure from my usual musical fare. This is the opening sequence from the Japanese anime series You're Under Arrest!. Maybe this is just me but having heard modern Asian and Latin pop music, it seems to sound much better than contemporary American pop. It's more melodic.

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

Translated Lyrics
Let's chase our dreams
Holding hearts burning
Like the summer sunshine
If we have courage
At 100 miles per hour
I'm sure the door will open.
Since sadness is the road that leads to smiles
Dull, dingy shoes will start to shine too

The most wonderful dream in the world
The pounding beat speeds up
The eyes are prisms that catch the wind
And in the voices of many friends
I feel happiness.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Current radio listening --

It's October 16, 1936, and former President Herbert Hoover is speaking in a paid political broadcast over NBC on behalf of the Landon/Knox ticket. As a speaker, Mr. Hoover makes my bowl of cornflakes seem dynamic and exciting by comparison, but the audience is lapping it up. Obviously they believe what they read in the Literary Digest.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlisle

[video=youtube;WTFs9n_xotA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTFs9n_xotA&feature=related[/video]

 

[Viper Man]

Casanova's Lament - The Capitol Jazzmen w/ vocal by Jack Teagarden

 

[Fletch]

Take the "A" Train - Glenn Miller & Orch., 1941. So dreamy-tempoed, there must have been a "slow" signal somewhere north of Columbus Circle.