What are you listening to?

[rue]

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

 

[Diamondback]

Glenn Beck, Idiots Unplugged: Truth for Those Who Care to Listen.

Best part? Only paying a buck--found it in the bargain-rack at Borders.

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Now playing: Glenn Beck - Idiots Unplugged Disc 01 Track 16
via FoxyTunes

 

[Harp]

Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in A, Op. 100;
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin; Cecile Licad, piano

 

[Lady Day]

Hank Williams

LD

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to scrape together breakfast with no bacon in the house by --

Starting off in 1926 with Phil Ohman and Victor Arden, Their Twin Pianos and Their Orchestra and the definitive version of "Someone To Watch Over Me," with Franklyn Baur and Virginia Rea duetting on the vocal. It's been given the treatment by every jazz and rock artist to come down the pike in the last eighty years, but this is what it sounded like when it was just that song from the new Gershwin show.

Next, ahead to 1937 and more Gershwin -- this time, it's Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra and "They Can't Take That Away From Me." This isn't the definitive recording -- that would be the Fred Astaire-Johnny Green version -- but Ozzie does a perfectly agreeable job.

 

[rue]

Thanks to you Lizzie I'm a big fan of Annette Hanshaw now and that's what I'm listening to this morning.
This song is perfect to start out my day:
[video=youtube;k4_erzk9Le8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4_erzk9Le8[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Glenn Beck, Idiots Unplugged

I'd be tempted to say something political about Glenn if a) it weren't against house rules and b) if he weren't regarded by folks across the political spectrum as such a master satirist - the Tony Clifton of punditry.

 

[LizzieMaine]

No more discussion of the Mallard Fillmore of radio, please. He has no Golden Era significance, so he is off topic here. Thanx.

 

[rue]

Here's another good one while puttering around in the morning and the kitchens in the video are cute too:
[video=youtube;iBS2p475X_8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBS2p475X_8[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Here's another good one while puttering around in the morning and the kitchens in the video are cute too:
[video=youtube;iBS2p475X_8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBS2p475X_8[/video]

What a superb recording! I just added it to my Favorites on my youTube channel. Here's Fanny Brice's version from the original movie:

[video=youtube;OlyzFJwiBv8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyzFJwiBv8[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;_nNXi66N2oc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nNXi66N2oc[/video]

 

[rue]

What a superb recording! I just added it to my Favorites on my youTube channel. Here's Fanny Brice's version from the original movie:

That was really cute! Thank you V.C. Brunswick

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Before there was High School Musical

Billy May and his Orchestra -- Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You
(from the film Pennies From Heaven)

[video=youtube;39myNyUlEuE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39myNyUlEuE&feature=related[/video]

 

[Fletch]

What Can I Say Dear? - Tom Waring (of the Pennsylvanians), piano and vocal, 1926.
I had not realized this but Tom was on the track to becoming one of the earliest crooners. Maybe too early - he tried twice to break out as a solo attraction, but ended up back with Fred and the boys each time.

Some liner noter once described Tom as "a cabaret act without a cabaret." What did that mean? Well, FWIW, in the 40s, when Fred opened the Shawnee Inn in the Delaware Gap, Tom opened up a rather cutesy gift shop there. (Household gimcracks and intimate singing supposedly appeal to the same people.) He did design and handmake neckties, tho, so keep your eyes peeled for one.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Apparently Fred and Tom used to gag it up on the bandstand during the Pennsylvanians' stage appearances. There exists a guest appearance they made on Fred Allen's radio program in 1936 performing a Pick-and-Pat-level blackface act, which makes it clear that they should have stuck to their respective lines.

 

[martinsantos]

I will never understand why so few listen Billy May today. A solid, happy-sounding, imaginative orch. May arrangements are marvelous. Got several of those 10" LPs from Capitol - all very well worn.

And, of course, it is the orchestra with Nat King Cole in what I think is Nat's very very best album, "Jus One of those Things".

Before there was High School Musical

Billy May and his Orchestra -- Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You
(from the film Pennies From Heaven)

 

[Harp]

ESPN 1000* AM; Illinois at Chicago vs Loyola izza:

 

[rue]

Loving Al Bowlly:

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

 

[brspiritus]

My wife breathing heavy on skype

 

[HadleyH]

"You Took Advantage of Me" 1928 wrtitten by Rodgers and Hart for the musical "Present Arms".




Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra and vocals from him!

Bing !!!

[video=youtube;6U7O0kJXOSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7O0kJXOSQ[/video]