What are you listening to?

[vitanola]

I have always liked Emil Coleman's organisation, even back in the Red Vocalion "Ricky-Tick" days.



Played this remarkable performance. WOW! Talk about virtuoso saxophone!

[video=youtube_share;xpz3R4TmHlg]http://youtu.be/xpz3R4TmHlg[/video]

Of course, serious performers, either jazz or concert never slap-tongue.

Perhaps because few can do it so well.

 

[HadleyH]

I apologize for this song ..it's not 1930s .... but I love it so very much...I love it and have been listening to it non stop

James Morrison - You Give Me Something

[video=youtube;UZp6dhheriM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UZp6dhheriM#![/video]

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Fankie singing The Coffee song.
[video=youtube_share;hc_Y4oqdP0I]http://youtu.be/hc_Y4oqdP0I[/video]

 

[JazzyDame]

For those with "mystic", invisible smiles...

[video=youtube;fxEmnxiUz8w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEmnxiUz8w[/video]

 

[Widebrim]

^^As I mentioned to a particular young lady, Nat knew about those "invisible" smiles...

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Johnny Duncan -- Jukebox Cinderella

[video=youtube;a4pfWLbPpLk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4pfWLbPpLk[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Jerry the Junker - Clarence Williams & His Washboard Band, 1934

"Junker" used to mean "junkie," and it still means a man who scrounges for records at thrift shops and garage sales.
Clarence's description of his "ragged clothes and worn out shoes...everything just seems to ooze" applies either way.
[video=youtube;o9fUEH3fLlw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9fUEH3fLlw[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Gottfried Huppertz -- Metropolis Medley (1927)
Portions of the original score conducted by Gottfried Huppertz.

[video=youtube;4JEGOJ1jE6I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JEGOJ1jE6I[/video]

 

[Fletch]

That is pretty damn remarkable. Of course today, Metropolis is something you put electronic trance music over. Because everybody knows movies are timeless art, but their music is just drivel and fluff.

 

[Fletch]

Top of the Town - Gertrude Niesen with orch. dir. Cy Feuer, 1937

Torch singers aren't usually my thing. Neither are songs about New York. But this one is unusual because it is not overdone. You can imagine sitting on the Zilch-Plaza Moonlight Roof with some mellow band playing, knocking back highballs and thinking maybe this burg wasn't such a rat cage after all. Just a crazy merry-go-round.
[video=youtube;3Nqjw4kDGFA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nqjw4kDGFA[/video]
Notice the number (LA 1223) on the label. This means the record date took place in Los Angeles. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. Nothing is real, the world is papier-maché. Except for this highball. Speaking of which, I'll have another.

 

[vitanola]

That is pretty damn remarkable. Of course today, Metropolis is something you put electronic trance music over. Because everybody knows movies are timeless art, but their music is just drivel and fluff.

Yes. I'm horribly disappointed in all of the pictures which are transferred to DVD with modern scores substituted for extant, and generally excellent Vitaphone or Movietone scores with effects. The DVD transfer of "Four Sons" with its new score is my latest disappointment. I liked the Movitone score, and the lack of the cry "Mutterchen!" in that heartbreaking scene was sorely felt.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra -- Metropolis: A Fantasy In Blue (1928)

[video=youtube;zSHMCh9g41I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSHMCh9g41I[/video]

 

[Fletch]

That piece kicks a. Not written for the movie, but inspired by it.

 

[JazzyDame]

I've no idea why, but this catchy little tune has been on my mind all morning...

[video=youtube;um6lZvsfPfA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um6lZvsfPfA[/video]

...performed by Stanley Black and his Piano Barrosso.

 

[Fletch]

You hear a tune; I hear a rhythm. That's what happens when you listen to a piano number after hearing horns all the time.

(Didn't Os Quindins pitch relief for Milwaukee awhile back? He could have. )

 

[Fletch]

(How I'll Miss You) When Summer Is Gone - Hal Kemp & Orch., 1929

The Kemp name stood for highly stylized, muted music, but that was just the "band that made it."
The "band that failed" - in 1932 after a 6 year career - was collegiate-peppy, as you'll hear below.
[video=youtube;4C3D5J6waA8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C3D5J6waA8[/video]

Hal not going in for the drape shape, ca. early 30s.

 

[carouselvic]

Milestones...Legends of the Doc Watson Clan

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Osvaldo Fresedo y su Orquesta Tipica-- Solo Tu
(Only You)

[video=youtube;yNAU5kX00Sc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAU5kX00Sc[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube_share;nbk19vEhy6Y]http://youtu.be/nbk19vEhy6Y[/video]

From George Jones' funeral. Very beautiful performance.

 

[JazzyDame]

Harlem Nocturne performed by Ray Noble and his Orchestra...

[video=youtube;FHWFgD30328]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHWFgD30328[/video]