What are you listening to?

[VintageVixie]

Benny Goodman Orchestra-- Sing Sing Sing

Me too! I find it to be one of the best songs ever composed. Really. I cannot imagine swing without it, it's definitive. Thank you Louis Prima.

I rock out to this song the way you hear other people in cars blaring the hip-hop and whatnot.

 

[kools]

Here Comes the Man with the Jive by Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club.

GREAT "stuff"!

 

[kools]

I am listening to a LARGE quantity of music. I have just spent most of the last 24 hours importing my cds into my itunes...20,584 songs and counting. Listening along the way. Right now is "Quiet Riot" by Buddy Rich & Ork.

 

[maggiethespy]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince audio book. Jim Dale does such a great job doing the reading of all the Harry Potter books.

I love Jim Dale! He narrates Pushing Daisies-- he's got a terrific voice.

Miss Rose, Sing Sing Sing and In the Mood are two of my favorite songs! I love them. I think the drum rolls in Sing Sing Sing are brilliant! Everyone associates those two songs with swing, and I think it's mostly due to Chips Ahoy! commercials and 1940's flashbacks in TV shows.

 

[just_me]

Maggiethespy - I love Jim Dale. I saw him starring on Broadway in the musical (speaking of music ) Barnum. I was in about the 7th row and took pictures. He was fantastic.

 

[VintageVixie]

Miss Rose, Sing Sing Sing and In the Mood are two of my favorite songs! I love them. I think the drum rolls in Sing Sing Sing are brilliant! Everyone associates those two songs with swing, and I think it's mostly due to Chips Ahoy! commercials and 1940's flashbacks in TV shows.

Miller's In the Mood is one of my favorites also. but I'm really partial to a lot of Glenn Miller.

Oh my, I'd forgotten about that Chips Ahoy Commercial! Ah well the producers know a catchy tune when they hear it.

 

[VintageVixie]

The Walls Keep Talking. Not the Krupa/O'Day version, but what to me looks like a soundie with performers I've not been able to identify. :sigh:

I put it on youtube if anyone has any idea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pG8pzbV-s

(I just started uploading a bunch of vids here last night, more to come. I figure it's a good place to have them posted, as a back up, if nothing else.)

 

[HadleyH]

Paul Whiteman and Ramona!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=dRBEOP9zO1k

 

[PapaSimone]

Buddy Holly 50 years later

50 years after the gig in Clear Lake Iowa, Here's a little tribute to Buddy Holly!
http://blogs.bayviewnow.com/life_at_33_rpm/
Brown-eyed Handsome Man! 1959

 

[Frykitty]

Bonnie "Prince" Billy's album: Lie Down in the Light (2008) It's great just like all his others.

 

[vitanola]

Here are a few of tonight's records, taken from the stack before I file them away:

OkeH 40198 "Bessie Couldn't Help It", by Warner's Seven Aces

Gennett 3408 "I'll Fly to Hawaii", by Gowan's Rhapsody Makers

Victor 19858 "Everybody Stomp", by Art Landry and his Orchestra

Brunswick 80041, "Parkway Stomp", by Albert Wynne's Gut Bucket Five

Harmony 332-H, "Boneyard Shuffle", by The Arkansas Travelers

Victor 20593, "Alligator Blues", by John Hyman's Bayou Stompers

Edison 51730, "Ev'rybody's Charleston Crazy", by the Georgia Melodians

Bluebird B-6270 "Hello, Lola!" by the Mound City Blue Blowers

Vocalian 15728 "Downright Disgusted" by Joe "Wingy" Manone and his Club Royale Orchestra

Brunswick 4684, "Ruff Scufflin", by George E. Lee and his Orchestra

Victor 21492, "Charlston Is the Best Dance After All", by Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra

Edison 51438 "Battleship Kate", by Wilbur Sweatman's Brownies

Victor 20971, "Sugar Babe, I'm Leavin'", By Blue Steele and his Orchestra

Victor 19996, "Tamiami Trail", by Whitey Kaufman's Original Pennsylvania Serenaders

Victor 22124, "If I Had a Talking Picture of You", by Johnny Hamp and his Kentucky Serenaders.

Victor 20507, "What Makes My Baby Cry?" by the Five Harmaniacs

OkeH 8656, "The Call of the Freaks", by Luis Russel & his Burning Eight.

Victor 21184m "Watin for Katie", by Ben Pollack and his Orchestra

OkeH 40308, "That's A Plenty", by Anthony parenti's Famous Melody Boys

Brunswick 7096 "My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll", by Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra

Victor 21346, "Thou Swell" by the Louisiana Sugar Babies

Columbia 14392-D, "Come On, Baby", by Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra

Columbia 14373-D, "Daylight Savin' Blues", by The Gulf Coast Seven

Brunswick 80075, "When Erastus plays his Old Kazoo", by Johnny Dodds and his Black Bottom Stompers

Harmony 166-H, "Tampeeko", by the Dixie Stompers

Brunswick 3975, "Shirt Tail Stomp", by Benny Goodman and his Boys

Brunswick 4972, "Git-Wit-It", by Monk Hazel and his Bienville Roof Orchestra

Hit of the Week 1045, "Sing, You Sinners", by the Harlem Hot Chocolates

Victor 19934, "The Monkey Doodle-Doo", by Busse's Buzzards

 

[Nathan Dodge]

1968-73: Its own mini-deacde

Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra

 

[VintageVixie]

Who Put the Benzadrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine ~ Harry "the hipster" Gibson

which just ended and now its

Harriet (western novelty song) ~ Gene Krupa Orchestra

 

[just_me]

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu

 

[Nathan Dodge]

George Rusell- "Stratusphunk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUAfV7VtsCo

 

[grone]

I'M LISTENING TO CLEO'S MOOD BY JR. WALKER & THE ALL STARS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMUWyhvL-xc

 

[VintageVixie]

In memory...

Rockin' Bones by The Cramps.

Rest in Peace, Lux. 10/21/1948 - 02/04/2009

 

[Harp]

The Chieftains,Ta' Mo Chleamahnas De'anta.

 

[just_me]

Bob Dylan - Tangled up in Blue from Blood on the Tracks

 

[VintageVixie]

Love is the Sweetest Thing by Al Bowlly