What are you listening to?

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http://www.folkalley.com/

 

[Fletch]

Belgium Man, Belgium!

Place de Brouckère, Django Reinhardt and His Orch., 1943.
A swingin' riff thing, named after the place where Brussels bustles.

Ommegang down there, and you'd Duvel to join me.
Stella said Chimay come along, but we won't be up a Kriek without her.
(Aren't I a Wit? lol)

 

[Widebrim]

First up, it's 1929 and Libby Holman in all her glory gives out with "Am I Blue?"

Boy, I was just humming that in my head...

 

[Wally_Hood]

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in "The Airplane Matter."

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I am listening to the Public Enemies Soundtrack right now.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

From the year 1927 and the Ziegfeld Follies, two versions of It All Belongs To Me. One by Ruth Etting (Columbia 1113-D) and the other by Johnny Hamp and his Kentucky Serenaders (Victor 20900-B) with vocal by Franklyn Baur.

Lyrics
Take a look at the flower in my buttonhole
Take a look say and ask me why it's there
Can't you see that I'm all dressed up to take a stroll?
Can't you tell that there's something in the air?

I've got a date, can't hardly wait
I'd like to bet
She won't be late

Here she comes, come on and meet
A hundred pounds of what is mighty sweet
And it all belongs to me

Flashing eyes that hardly roll
A disposition like a sugar bowl
And it all belongs to me

That pretty baby face
That bunch of style and grace
Should be in Tiffany's window in a platinum jewel case

Hey there, you! You'll get in Dutch
I'll let you look, but then you mustn't touch
For it all belongs to me

Rosy cheeks, red hot lips
A million dollars worth of flying tips
And it all belongs to me

Those lips that I desire are like electric wire
She kissed a tree last summer
Oooh, She started a forest fire!

I'm in love with what she's got
And what she's got, she's got an awful lot
And it all belongs to me

 

[WinoJunko]

I'm listening to the Codeine Velvet Club

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[Selvaggio]

Everything is Everything, Donny Hathaway

 

[Selvaggio]

Codeine Velvet Club

Thanks for posting that - I thought it was really great. They so remind me of another band...I can't put my finger on it...the Orange Juice maybe...anyway.

 

[Shangas]

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - "Goosey Goosey".

 

[Chas]

I have to work night shifts at the hospital tonite - a little agitated because of that. So I need to hear some ROCK music.

"Let the bodies hit the floor...."
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Korn. Music for agitated people.
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[LizzieMaine]

78s to really wish I hadn't sat up till half past midnight cleaning that stupid sewing machine by --

Starting off in 1934 with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra gazing upward with "I Saw Stars," with a pleasant vocal turn by the unjustly-forgotten Peggy Healy, soon to be supplanted as the Whiteman Ensemble's everyday gal singer by Ramona. Hmph -- just because you're six feet tall and play the grand piano doesn't mean you can push people around.

Next up, back to 1932 with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees and that anthem of collegiate thrift, "Here It Is Monday and I've Still Got A Dollar." Rudy, not only do you still got a dollar, you still got the right arm off the guy that handed it to you.

 

[Fletch]

stem-winder

The Capital Dance Orchestra of Germany with one of the great neglected "train songs."
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[richard d.]

It's sad to say, but there were two beautiful voices that have just been forgotten, or many never heard of. They were the Sweethearts of the late 30's...Jeannette Macdonald & Nelson Eddie. My partner and I are in our late 50's...weren't even around in the 30's...But absolutely love their music. We have all their movie we have purchases as re-makes off ebay. Anyone wanting to hear something truly beautiful just listen to their music. Down here in Jacksonville, Florida, only the ones in their 80's know who they were. I just wish I could hear them on my radio. Richard

 

[Fletch]

Have you spent much time on YouTube?
MacDonald & Eddy search hits

It's become quite a hangout for what are loosely called "showbiz nostalgia" buffs. They're definitely the audience for MacD & E, and they are mostly middle-aged. They are quite tuned into the dramatic aspects of their careers ande lives - one link is to an interview with Eddy and the comments indicate some very intense fanship exists to this day.

This same group is also about the best audience left for good quality pop & dance band music of the 20s to 40s era. This too is plentiful on YT, and often linked to the showbiz material. Usually it's with improvised visuals of some kind, or played on period phonographs. Many of the tunes I link to are from these fans.

 

[LizzieMaine]

People have forgotten how incredibly popular Nelson Eddy was in his day -- he was the second-most popular male vocalist of any style in the US during the late thirties, trailing only Bing Crosby, and in the annual Radio Guide Star of Stars competition -- which drew heavy balloting from rural audiences -- he actually beat out Crosby for best male singer in 1937 and 1938. He was also a headline attraction for three years on the Chase and Sanborn Hour, by far the most popular radio program in the country. One cannot overstate just how popular he was, which makes his obscurity today all the more unfortunate.

His style doesn't appeal to the hipsters and the swingsters, but for my money nobody ever equaled his "Song of the Vagabonds."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

It's sad to say, but there were two beautiful voices that have just been forgotten, or many never heard of. They were the Sweethearts of the late 30's...Jeannette Macdonald & Nelson Eddie. My partner and I are in our late 50's...weren't even around in the 30's...But absolutely love their music. We have all their movie we have purchases as re-makes off ebay. Anyone wanting to hear something truly beautiful just listen to their music. Down here in Jacksonville, Florida, only the ones in their 80's know who they were. I just wish I could hear them on my radio. Richard

Jeannette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy -- Indian Love Call (1937)
Victor 4323

and my favorite Jeannette Macdonald recording:

One Hour With You (1932)
Victor 24019

 

[vitanola]

By accident I came across a recording by the German "Capital Dance Orchestra". Nice performance, though I find the vocal refrain oddly disturbing.

I much prefer Kowalski's wouk in oratorio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaOL2SqPKlg

 

[HadleyH]

He is up there with McKinney Cotton Pickers in my book.

Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone"



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[Widebrim]

South Bound, by Sam Lanin and the Broadway Broadcasters.