What are you listening to?

[Carlisle Blues]

If you haven't seen or heard if it, I highly recommend "Sita Sings the Blues" which features Annette Hanshaw.

Great music in Sita.....and a great many legal troubles regarding Hanshaw..:eusa_doh:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Is that the real Sharona on the cover? I didnt know that! She was nice!

Last night I was listening to KFI and Tim Conway, Jr. was talking to Sharona Alperin, now an L.A. realtor. Too bad I only caught the tail end of the interview.

 

[zaika]

Great music in Sita.....and a great many legal troubles regarding Hanshaw..:eusa_doh:

I know! Such a shame about all that.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Last night I was listening to KFI and Tim Conway, Jr. was talking to Sharona Alpern. Too bad I only caught the tail end of it.

Apparently Doug Fieger caught the tail end as well, but, he did not complain. He wrote a song...

This parody was done by Weird Al Yankovic - 1979 - My Bologna.

As if he was really interested in the various aspects of My Sharona or Alpern it was just a vehicle to get someone's attention. Anyway The Knack approved of the parody and even had Yankovic inked to a one-off deal with their label, Capitol Records.


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[V.C. Brunswick]

This parody was done by Weird Al Yankovic - 1979 - My Bologna.

As if he was really interested in the various aspects of My Sharona or Alpern it was just a vehicle to get someone's attention. Anyway The Knack approved of the parody and even had Yankovic inked to a one-off deal with their label, Capitol Records.

Weird Al was a student at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo when he recorded My Bologna and it was recorded in a men's room on the campus! He sent the tape to Barry Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, who played it on his show and it practically became an overnight hit.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try to remember why I got up this morning by --

First up, from one of the truly great Broadway revues of the twenties, "The Little Show," it's Phil Ohman and Victor Arden and their Orchestra in 1929 with a fine Scrappy Lambert vocal on "I've Made A Habit of You." Beats taking the Keeley Cure.

Next, following a commercial for Ironized Yeast ("She's so listless and underweight!"), we skip ahead to 1940 for a fine performance by Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra of "More Than You Know." Delores Brown is the vocalist, and sounds like she just got up too.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Weird Al was a student at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo when he recorded My Bologna and it was recorded in a men's room on the campus! He sent the tape to Barry Hansen, aka Dr. Demento, who played it on his show and it practically became an overnight hit.

Yes and he was responsible for making this song famous: Elmo and Patsy ("Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, 1979):rage: (I will not even post a link) and many other novelty and/or strange songs to the airwaves.

He is clearly demented hence the moniker Dr. Demento..

 

[John in Covina]

Weird Al was a student at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

fftopic:
Cal Poly Humor - What what does a Cal Poly San Lusi Obispo graduate call a Cal poly Pomona gradute? Answer - Boss!

For those of you that don't know Cal Poly - these 2 colleges are about 200 miles apart and every year design and each build half of the Rose Parade Float which is assembled just days before the Parade. So if you watch the Rose Parade you've probably seen their work.

 

[John in Covina]

After seeing Max Raabe & Palast Orchester last night at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus I popped in "Heute Nacht Oder Nie" the live performance at Carnegie Hall Nov 2007.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Creedence Clearwater Revival-Suzie Q

Dale Hawkins Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ‘Susie Q’ RIP..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJe5sMBpnNY&feature=related

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[Fletch]

Henry Busse, the little German with the namby-pamby trumpet and the big gutsy band,
doing his big hits Hot Lips and Wang-Wang Blues. The 1934 Decca coupling.

 

[swaviator]

Great music in Sita.....and a great many legal troubles regarding Hanshaw..:eusa_doh:

Speaking of Annette Hanshaw, I've been in love with her for years. I like the pre-big band music of the '30s and before. Eddie Lang, Bix, Django Rheinhardt, Bessie Smith, all travel with me in my car.

 

[theinterchange]

Brandi Carlile's XOBC EP, a special Valentines release. Has a somewhat lackluster cover of "All You Need is Love" but the other tracks are well worth the iTunes price. I hate to say, even her cover of Bryan Adams is enjoyable!

Have also been listening the heck out of "Chopin'66" by Jack Nitzsche, and one of The Monkee's hits compilations.

Randy

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Indulging my love of European dance bands from between the wars...

Marek Weber und sein Orchester -- Die Ganze Welt Ist Himmelblau (circa 1930)
(The Whole World Is Sky Blue)

Marek Weber und sein Orchester -- In Deinen Augen Liegt Das Herz Von Wien (circa 1930)
(In Your Eyes Lies the Heart Of Vienna)

 

[Chas]

The wonderful Mabel Scott. A double threat - superb vocalist and she was a real looker, too. She had a swingin, wailin' band to boot. Actually, she was a triple threat - a talented classical pianist on top of being a roots R&B legend.

Just The Way You Are

 

[anon`]

Ensiferum - Ferrum Aeternum

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wonder "What Were They Thinking?" by --

Starting off in 1942 with a smooth Kay Kyser recording of "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings." One of the great romantic ballads of the war era about being oh-so-in-love with a dashing manly pilot -- sung here without the slightest trace of irony by Harry Babbitt. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Next, back to 1927 with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra and one of the hit tunes from "Show Boat." If you were to take a guess as to who might have been the very first vocalist ever to record "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," I'm pretty sure you *wouldn't* guess Franklyn Baur.

 

[theinterchange]

I've had the album for a few weeks, but just today got around to listening to Sufjan Steven's The BQE, an orchestral album that I'm now really digging.

Randy

 

[HadleyH]

I am being corny today, please forgive me.
I like this song! and I dont even know Buble very much [huh]

but i do like this song!

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[Eva Morsikova]

A 78 featuring Rachmaninoff's Sorrow In Springtime (Op. 21/12 No.12). One of many of his works that will bring me to tears; it's beautiful, it's tragic and it's elegant all at once.
I hope to acquire more 78s of his music as well as works from Horowitz.