What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

Just finished: Russ Columbo's 1933 recording of "Just Friends, Lovers No More." Fans of the "Our Gang" comedies will no doubt recall Tommy Bond's unforgettable rendering of this tune in "Mush and Milk," but I think Columbo does a bit of a better job on it.

Now up: Ella Logan in 1935, and "Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be?" A wonderful Scottish vocalist with a great jazz sensibility, who ought to be much better remembered than she is.

 

[zaika]

I LOVE METALOCALYPSE!

the best show in the world. definatley. lol

 

[Jovan]

That show is more disturbingly accurate than most people think. lol The music is great though.

 

[dani]

almost lover by a fine frenzy.

 

[pennycarrol]

I'm listening to Kaki King!!!!

 

[Vintage lover]

Lots of rockabilly (Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat ect...) oldies(Buddy Holly, lots more) and of course jaz and swing(Artie Sway, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Dean martin, and more)

 

[Marlowe P.]

Just got home from listening to a bluegrass band called Sassaprilla and a band that played cool old time music mixed in with some really odd hardcore thing at various points. Band was called the Clampitt family. pretty great parts minus the hardcore thing... ehhhh was interesting

 

[LizzieMaine]

Just dragged myself out of bed, put on the kettle, and turned on the radio -- and the first thing I hear is Ethel Waters' 1933 rendition of "Stormy Weather." Would have been more appropriate to yesterday, when I had to shovel out the driveway four times.

Now playing -- "Everything I Have Is Yours," George Olsen and his Music, as introduced in the 1933 Joan Crawford/Clark Gable musical film "Dancing Lady." If you haven't seen this picture, you're missing out on a remarkable experience -- in addition to Crawford and Gable, you also get the Three Stooges.

 

[~*Red*~]

I just found this widget for my Mac dashboard called vintage radio. It plays 1930's-1940's music and radio shows... pretty fun so far!

 

[Lady Day]

Right now, 'Darling Companion' by Johnny Cash and June Carter

I LOVE the lyrics!


Darlin' companion, come on and give me understandin'.
And let me be your champion: a hand to hold your pretty hand in.
Darlin' companion, now you know you'll never be abandoned.
Love will always light our landin': I can depend on you.

Oh, a little saucy mare like you should have a steed.
Oh, a little bridlin' down from you is what I need.

Darlin' companion, now you know you'll never be abandoned.
Love will always light our landin': I can depend on you.

[Instrumental]

Darlin' companion, come on and give me understandin'.
As long as we keep laughin', bear in mind just what could happen.
Darlin' companion, I tell the mountains and the canyons,
Long as I got legs to stand on, I'm gonna stick by you.

Oh, a little saucy mare like you should have a steed.
Oh, a little bridlin' down from you is what I need.

Darlin' companion, I tell the mountains and the canyons,
Long as I got legs to stand on, I'm gonna stick by you.

Darlin' companion, I tell the mountains and the canyons,
Long as I got legs to stand on, I'm gonna stick by you.



LD

 

[LizzieMaine]

Lunchtime listening --

Started off with Dick Powell in 1934, crooning "Happiness Ahead," from the motion picture musical of the same name.

Next up, perhaps the flip side of the Depression-era coin: "I'm Just An Unemployed Sweetheart," as performed by Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys. One of my favorite records!

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Lunchtime listening --

Started off with Dick Powell in 1934, crooning "Happiness Ahead," from the motion picture musical of the same name.

Next up, perhaps the flip side of the Depression-era coin: "I'm Just An Unemployed Sweetheart," as performed by Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys. One of my favorite records!

Dick Powell always cheers me up!

On that flip side, I have (still in a storage locker with the rest of my LP collection, a thousand miles away; long story) a record called Songs of the Depression with a great song called "If I Ever Get a Job Again" by singer Dick Robertson. Some information about Robertson can be found on this page:

http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_firstcrooners3.html

 

[Sunny]

Lunchtime listening --

Started off with Dick Powell in 1934, crooning "Happiness Ahead," from the motion picture musical of the same name.

Aww, I loved that one!

 

[Lady Day]

National Public Radio stream. Why oh why havent I been listening to this before!? :eusa_doh:

LD
So late to the party.

 

[Fletch]

Dick Powell always cheers me up!

On that flip side, I have (still in a storage locker with the rest of my LP collection, a thousand miles away; long story) a record called Songs of the Depression with a great song called "If I Ever Get a Job Again" by singer Dick Robertson. Some information about Robertson can be found on this page:

http://www.picklehead.com/ian/ian_txt_firstcrooners3.html

Danged little about Robertson. AIUI, he was born in Brooklyn of Canadian extraction(!) in 1903 and lived till 1957. Did some vaudeville work in England in the late 20s and then started recording over here in '29.
In the late 30s he had a small recording group on Decca that did nice jazz-pop renditions with his vocals. After that he switched to songwriting and had one big hit with Yesterday's Gardenias (1942).

 

[Marlowe P.]

keepin on the sunny side with ...

The Carter Family

 

[ambrose]

Just got 5 cd's worth of louis jordan Cant belive this guys a 40's singer There is some serious beat music going on here
Is there anybody else like this on your side of the water I should be listening / dancing too
Saturday night fish fry must be one of the first tracks ever to mention rocking
Just cant belive this is nearly 60 years old

 

[LadyStardust]

Lately, lots of Juliette Greco. Particularly, her rendition of "Sous les ciel de Paris".

fftopic: Whew, off the dreaded triple digit number! lol

 

[AmateisGal]

Doris Day's Early Days. I'm trying to get some writing done on the WW2 novel and this is perfect background noise.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

Lunchtime listening --

Started off with Dick Powell in 1934, crooning "Happiness Ahead," from the motion picture musical of the same name.

Next up, perhaps the flip side of the Depression-era coin: "I'm Just An Unemployed Sweetheart," as performed by Ted Wallace and his Campus Boys. One of my favorite records!

Thinking about it further, I seemed to recall that the Ted Wallace song was on the same Songs of the Depression LP with the Dick Robertson song I like, "If I Ever Get a Job Again"; and that is indeed the case. The LP was on the Stash label, with 16 song tracks, and was released in the early/mid 1980s; there was a longer, 24 song track, CD version put out by Mojo in 1996. I think, but am not 100% sure, that all 16 LP tracks are repeated on the CD. Here's the All Music Guide entry (and if you click on Dick Robertson's name, you'll find additional information about him):

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jvfwxqlgldse~T0