What are you listening to?

[LizzieMaine]

Home for a fleeting interlude between the matinee and the evening show -- and listening to Shep Fields and his Rippling Rhythm with one of the better pop tunes of 1938, "The Moon Got In My Eyes." Although Shep's is one of the cheesiest of the cheese bands, I must admit I have always enjoyed them very much. Please don't laugh.

 

[CharlesB]

AUtomatic Lover by the Teddybears

 

[imoldfashioned]

Tonight You Belong To Me by Gene Austin
She's Got It by Ted Weems and His Orchestra
Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War by Paul Simon
Radio Free Europe by REM
Memories of You by Judy Garland

 

[Marlowe P.]

Arcade Fire Neon Bible

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Arcade Fire Neon Bible

Great album, eh? They're fantastic live.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

Django Reinhardt. Jazz and Gypsy guitars from the 30s and 40s. From Nuages to Billets Doux, this is the depth charge that sounds deep in the soul. The Sidecar doesn't hurt, either.

 

[SamMarlowPI]

Ritchie Valens...

 

[drjones]

listening to....

Duke Ellington, Andrews Sisters, Benny Goodman

The Classics.

DRJONES

 

[nobodyspecial]

Dolly Parton's latest, we have concert tickets for her upcoming show.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Trying to wake up with my second cup of tea, and listening to Annette Hanshaw singing "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye." One of those tunes where the lyricist was probably drinking something stronger than tea -- "The chair and the sofa, they broke right down and cried," indeed.

Next up -- a singing commercial for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Remember the name of Lydia Pinkham -- whose medicine for women brought her fame!"

 

[Sunny]

I've been listening to later Johnny Dollar shows for a while, just for company while cleaning and [trying to] study auditing. Now I've got the 1959 Pepsi jingle in my head. "Stay young and fair and debonair, Be sociable - have a Pepsi!" :eusa_doh:

 

[LordJohnRoxton]

Cole Porter, Anything Goes.... 1934 recording with VBince Giordano and The Nighthawks. For some reason Cole Porter is the penultimate representative of the glamourous times for me.

 

[=Clipper=]

Trying to wake up with my second cup of tea, and listening to Annette Hanshaw singing "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye." One of those tunes where the lyricist was probably drinking something stronger than tea -- "The chair and the sofa, they broke right down and cried," indeed.

Next up -- a singing commercial for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Remember the name of Lydia Pinkham -- whose medicine for women brought her fame!"

Im a big fan of Annette Hanshaw, LizzieMarie! Everytime I think of her music the first song that pops in my head is 'Button Up Your Overcoat'..it's cute.

Right now I'm listening to 'A New Kind Of Man, With A New Kind Of Love' by Fats Waller ¬°Boy, could he play a tune on the keys!

Next is 'Stardust' by none other than the great Glenn Miller. I like this version. It's off the Lost Recordings Album. Makes me wanna go for a long drive around midnight...

 

[LadyStardust]

Well, truthfully the last thing I've been listening to is rather non-vintage, being the Fellowship of the Rings soundtrack. But one can never go wrong with Howard Shore, can they?

The last vintage track I listened to was Dick Haymes performing Skylark, and generally being a dreamboat.

By the way, I am always tickled when others voice such an appreciation for the perfection that is Stardust. It's been my favorite song for as long as I can remember, and it's been sort of surprising to see how many others really like it too.

 

[Patrick Murtha]

The last vintage track I listened to was Dick Haymes performing Skylark, and generally being a dreamboat.

That is a great track. He has such a distinctive way with a song.

 

[LadyStardust]

That is a great track. He has such a distinctive way with a song.

A distinctive way is certainly one way of putting it. I've always though he transcends simply singing a song. Forgive the flowery descriptives, but each time I listen to him it is a true experience. His voice has an almost mesmerizing quality, I know I feel quite literally enchanted when listening to his music. I know I may get a lot of grief for this, but I hold him in even higher regard than all of the crooners, Sinatra, Bowlly, even *gasp* Crosby (who I do adore, though). Haymes takes all the best vocal qualities of those that came before him and turns them into something uniquely his own, and near too good to be true.

Alright, can you tell I like him? Just a little bit? lol lol

 

[Brian Sheridan]

I'm listening to KCSM online. It is one of the last of the great jazz stations. Traditional jazz out of the Bay Area, 24 hours a day!

 

[Patrick Murtha]

A distinctive way is certainly one way of putting it. I've always though he transcends simply singing a song. Forgive the flowery descriptives, but each time I listen to him it is a true experience. His voice has an almost mesmerizing quality, I know I feel quite literally enchanted when listening to his music. I know I may get a lot of grief for this, but I hold him in even higher regard than all of the crooners, Sinatra, Bowlly, even *gasp* Crosby (who I do adore, though). Haymes takes all the best vocal qualities of those that came before him and turns them into something uniquely his own, and near too good to be true.

Alright, can you tell I like him? Just a little bit? lol lol

I'm a Sinatra guy through and through, but there is no question that Haymes is a great and seriously underrated singer. No grief from me on that point!

 

[Sunny]

A distinctive way is certainly one way of putting it. I've always though he transcends simply singing a song. Forgive the flowery descriptives, but each time I listen to him it is a true experience. His voice has an almost mesmerizing quality, I know I feel quite literally enchanted when listening to his music. I know I may get a lot of grief for this, but I hold him in even higher regard than all of the crooners, Sinatra, Bowlly, even *gasp* Crosby (who I do adore, though). Haymes takes all the best vocal qualities of those that came before him and turns them into something uniquely his own, and near too good to be true.

Alright, can you tell I like him? Just a little bit? lol lol

A little bit! I have one song with him in it, and I really want more. He's good.

 

[sweetfrancaise]

Inspired by my upcoming trip and one of the best holidays of the year, St. Patrick's Day, I've been listening to a lot of celtic, or celtic-inspired, music. Kate Rusby is a new one I've been listening to--have any of you heard of her? Really fine voice, and sh's gorgeous to boot.