What are you listening to?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Enrico Caruso- over there (1918) in honor of the armistice.

My favorite version of Over There -- I like how Caruso also sings it in French.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The American Quartet featuring Billy Murray -- Goodbye Broadway, Hello France (1918)

[video=youtube;Q7se0rsuFzE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7se0rsuFzE[/video]

 

[Henry Gondorff]

Put two legends together and you'll have a masterpiece:

Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong - Farewell to Storyville 1947



[video=youtube;gLHCR0OTqhs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLHCR0OTqhs[/video]

 

[Miss Moonlight]

OTR - A Christmas Carol, Mayor of the Town 1942.

 

[Giftmacher]

I always liked Soviet music
Marsh of the Moscow defenders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRk_c1F1E0c

 

[Dan Rodemsky]

Dave Digs Disney (Dave Brubeck)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I always liked Soviet music
Marsh of the Moscow defenders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRk_c1F1E0c

A couple of my favorites from that genre:

Time, Forward!
also the theme (0:58) of Vremya, the Russian evening news programme.

[video=youtube;UDODu16q48I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDODu16q48I&feature=related[/video]

Leonid Kostritsa -- Pervym Delom Samolyoty
(First Of All Planes) An example of Soviet Swing

[video=youtube;6r6JxnQyCuQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r6JxnQyCuQ&feature=related[/video]

(Rough translation)
We, my friends, are free as birds
But there's one thing missing
On the ground we didn't have time to marry
And the sky will not find us wives

Therefore, because we're pilots
The heavens are our dear home
First of all, First of all, Planes!
And then a girl? Of course a girl!

You're always in my heart, my dove
Would you like to give your heart?
Today we'll meet, see and love each other
But tomorrow we have our orders to part

So with yearning we go on our way
With that tender glance in our memory
So my friends, we shall never marry
Not even the prettiest girls

 

[Giftmacher]

Pervym Delom Samolyoty is a main song in the film The sky slow-mover from 1945. I have it on DVD

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Hopefully I did the translation some justice. I wasn't attempting an exact translation but one that would hopefully convey the gist of the song as smoothly as possible.

 

[Giftmacher]

http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn313/Giftmacher/?action=view&current=Movie.mp4

 

[Shangas]

I am listening to "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy", performed on that most underrated of all musical instruments: the Glass Armonica, invented in the 1700s by Ben Franklin.

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

 

[Fletch]

The Scat Song

...and yep, there used to be just one "Scat Song"!

In 1932, wordless vocalise was widely touted as a remedy for all that ailed the spirit, thanks in large part to Cab Calloway and his publisher-impresario Irving Mills, who saw "skat 'n skeet 'n hi-de-hi" as the next big thing. And it was, with five different records coming out at a time when next to nobody was buying records.

Listen to Cab himself put it over - then Cleveland phenom Billy Banks, who, with Irving's blessing, ganked nine or ten of Cab's musicians for his own date - and finally to Mills' Blue Rhythm Band, so peppy they didn't need no stinkin' vocal chorus.

 

[chanteuseCarey]

this evening- "the best of Italian baroque- Venetian treasures!" At concert in SJ, my two teens and I heard pieces by Pugnani, Tartini, Boccherini, Vivaldi, Cimarosa, and Paganini.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Light Music Medley
1. Bethena
2. Turn Off Your Light Mr. Moon Man
3. Everybody's Doing It
4. The Art Of Rag
5. Castle House Rag
6. Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland

[video=youtube;3CaieEwEuiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CaieEwEuiw&feature=related[/video]

 

[Miss Moonlight]

http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn313/Giftmacher/?action=view¤t=Movie.mp4

What is that from?

On my internal jukebox... [video=youtube;CYKxjE6fp3g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYKxjE6fp3g[/video]

 

[Giftmacher]

It is song Pervym Delom Samolyoty (First Of All Planes) from movie Nebesnyj Tichochod (The sky slow-mover) from 1945.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Marek Weber und sein Orchester -- Spiel Mit Mir Auf Der Kleiner Gold'nen Mandoline (1932)
(Play With Me On The Little Golden Mandolin)

[video=youtube;yX3haBuNXWQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX3haBuNXWQ&feature=related[/video]

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

...and yep, there used to be just one "Scat Song"!

Fun stuff, learned something new. Must've taken on a whole other meaning in Merry Ol' England, whot-whot?

 

[Giftmacher]

Light Music Medley
1. Bethena
2. Turn Off Your Light Mr. Moon Man
3. Everybody's Doing It
4. The Art Of Rag
5. Castle House Rag
6. Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland

[video=youtube;3CaieEwEuiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CaieEwEuiw&feature=related[/video]

Great!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Great!

This one's for Giftmacher

Original Prague Syncopated Orchestra -- Flašinetář
(Organ Grinder)

[video=youtube;Yw5V57gg_v4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Yw5V57gg_v4[/video]