What are you listening to?

davidraphael · Nov 17, 2010

I'm listening to something quite rare at the moment:

The ONLY known recording of Django Reinhardt playing with the Duke Ellington orchestra.
November 10, 1946. Civic Opera House, Chicago.

Django sits in and plays the following tracks:
Ride Red Ride
A Blues Riff
Improvisation #2
Honeysuckle Rose

LizzieMaine · Nov 17, 2010

78s to recover from taking a perfect pratfall on the kitchen floor by --

Now playing, it's 1934 and Freddy Martin and his Orchestra, with a wry Elmer Feldkamp vocal on "I'd Like To Dunk You In My Coffee." Quick, name a cute thirties pop tune about cannibalism. Ok, name *another* one.

Next, Ed Kirkeby and his Orchestra in 1926 with a hoppy-skippy-jumpy arrangement of "She Knows Her Onions." Eddie himself offers the vocal. Pass the Alka-Seltzer.

Undertow · Nov 17, 2010

LizzieMaine said:
Quick, name a cute thirties pop tune about cannibalism. Ok, name *another* one.

Uh, uh...Timothy by Rupert Holmes and the Buoys! Oh - that's not thirties! :eusa_doh:

V.C. Brunswick · Nov 17, 2010

Fred Elizalde and his Savoy Hotel Orchestra -- If I Had You (1929)
vocal by Al Bowlly
[video=youtube;vreYUHj3O2Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vreYUHj3O2Q[/video]

Nik Taylor · Nov 17, 2010

Midnight, the Stars and You
RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
VOCAL- AL BOWLLY.
TAKEN FROM AN ORIGINAL HMV 78. RECORDED, LONDON, FEBRUARY 16TH, 1934.

[video=youtube;N_blJzon-hA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_blJzon-hA&feature=related[/video]

V.C. Brunswick · Nov 17, 2010

Nik Taylor said:
Midnight, the Stars and You
RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA.
VOCAL- AL BOWLLY.
TAKEN FROM AN ORIGINAL HMV 78. RECORDED, LONDON, FEBRUARY 16TH, 1934.

[video=youtube;N_blJzon-hA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_blJzon-hA&feature=related[/video]

One of my favorite recordings! Perhaps because of my association of the song with the film The Shining, it never fails to send a slight shiver up my spine whenever I hear it.

[video=youtube;mcX7awxmBg8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcX7awxmBg8[/video]

davidraphael · Nov 17, 2010

I've mentioned it before, but if you like Al Bowlly and The Shining, I highly recommend the electronica artist The Caretaker who, inspired by the mood created by the use of the Bowlly song in Kubrick's film, created several albums of dark ambient tracks based on distorted 78rpm songs from the 1920s and 30s. He does his own versions of both Home and Midnight, the Stars and You.

Some of his 'Haunted Ballroom' stuff is available for free:
http://brainwashed.com/vvm/micro/caretaker/index_sub.htm

and here are samples on Youtube:
[video=youtube;it8rpmujeJU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it8rpmujeJU[/video]
[video=youtube;Y45rrjua3Ys]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45rrjua3Ys[/video]

Fletch · Nov 17, 2010

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Undertow said:
Uh, uh...Timothy by Rupert Holmes and the Buoys! Oh - that's not thirties! :eusa_doh:

Closest I can come is Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals - more tone poem than pop song.

Stuff blaring in my ear as I contemplate pulling the plunger on my last play in the great pinball game that is grad school:
Down My Way - Jelly Roll Morton & Orch., 1929. Funny sorta New Orleans big band. Can't tell where the arrangement ends and the messin' round begins.
I Won't Dance - Jack Hylton & Orch., 1935. Jack could make 18 pieces sound like 18,000. Tell Hadley to sit down, it's Sam Browne.
She Didn't Say "Yes" - Ben Selvin & Orch., 1931. Dick Robertson is on his very best behavior for this semi-operetta number. Band smoothly persuasive.
Buddy's Wednesday Outing - Spike Hughes & Orch., 1932. Up proto-swinger spotting the pleasantly klutzy tenor sax of Buddy Featherstonehaugh, whose fame passed before most Brits had even finished pronouncing his name.

Dagwood · Nov 18, 2010

[video=youtube;80rP-ZzJrY4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80rP-ZzJrY4[/video]

davidraphael · Nov 18, 2010

Melody and Madness radio show with Artie Shaw and his orchestra with Robert Benchley.
January 22, 1939 and April 2, 1939.

I have a nice remastered copy on CD by a company called Jazz Hour Compact Classics. Does anyone else have any of these releases?

Chas · Nov 18, 2010

HadleyH said:
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Charles Trenet's "La Mer" is my favorite interpretation of that song! Thank you!

Charles Trenet's "La Mer" is the song, actually. It was covered by Bobby Darin.

Fletch · Nov 18, 2010

The Sheik of Araby - Don Albert & His Music, 1936. New Orleanian Albert was a helluva trumpet man, but he had bad luck with his band and never hit it big. This, btw, is the earliest known rendition "Without No Pants On" (banned from air play - more bad luck).

Nik Taylor · Nov 19, 2010

Chas said:
Charles Trenet's "La Mer" is the song, actually. It was covered by Bobby Darin.

Legend has it that he co-wrote La Mer with Léo Chauliac on a train in 1943, and recorded it in 1946.

Here is another

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

JC · Nov 19, 2010

Currently, I'm listening to All's Well in Wellington...it's a nice little jazzy tune that I picked up over the past two months.

Fletch · Nov 19, 2010

Well well well. 500 pages.

Quite a collective achievement.

Appropriately enough I'll kick off today's goodies with Pages of Radio Land, Part 1, by Ray Noble & the New Mayfair Orch. in 1931. One of those swell medleys Ray used to do, with Great Day; some waltz tune I can't place (42 sec in - anyone know it?); Without a Song, sung sensitively by Al Bowlly; and Sunny Days.

Going over to Noble's New York band in 1936 and Where the Lazy River Goes By. Bowlly didn't usually have a glee club backing him - even here they only get 8 bars - but it's an unusually arresting effect. Johnny Mince features on clarinet.

Back to 1925 and Columbia's new electrical process Viva-tonal = "like life itself." The Little Ramblers demonstrate it admirably with Melancholy Lou, mostly a string of instrumental solos.

Ahead to 1933 and a Royal Blue Columbia side by Joe Haymes' Ork - a haunting yet understated I Cover the Waterfront. Haymes nicely restyled the stock arrangement during the session while the band was playing another tune (which ain't easy to do, btw). Trombonist Ward Sillaway pipes it.

Finally a bit of an anachronism - did you know Fletcher Henderson first recorded King Porter Stomp in 1928? Listen for the riffs he uses later on - strange to hear them outside a swing context, but there they are (some of 'em). Tommy Ladnier's great trumpet kicks it off.

V.C. Brunswick · Nov 19, 2010

Ian Whitcomb and the Boys -- The Red Rose Rag
vocal by Sheila Murphy

Percy Wenrich's 1911 composition performed live at the Liberty Tea Dance at the Lanterman House in La Cañada Flintridge, CA on November 11, 2006. Unfortunately the sound quality of this clip is not that great.

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

HadleyH · Nov 19, 2010

I'd sincerely appreciate it if someone could help me with this.

I haven't been able to find the complete version of this online, it's the song "Congratulate Me" (1934) I believe it is by Guy Lombardo or by Ambrose, not quite sure.

I know a version of this song by Lee O'daniel Hillbilly Boys , but that is not the one I need.

If anybody can help, I would be very grateful!

"Congratulate Me" is the very first song not the second which is "Cream in my Coffee"
[video=youtube;CEAVBsGd3gc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEAVBsGd3gc[/video]

Nik Taylor · Nov 19, 2010

HadleyH said:
I'd sincerely appreciate it if someone could help me with this.

I haven't been able to find the complete version of this online, it's the song "Congratulate Me" (1934) I believe it is by Guy Lombardo or by Ambrose, not quite sure.

I know a version of this song by Lee O'daniel Hillbilly Boys , but that is not the one I need.

If anybody can help, I would be very grateful!

"Congratulate Me" is the very first song not the second which is "Cream in my Coffee"

It is Ambrose....http://www.allmusic.com/song/congratulate-me-t13438009

Hope this helps...and BTW Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!:eusa_clap

HadleyH · Nov 19, 2010

Nik Taylor said:
It is Ambrose....http://www.allmusic.com/song/congratulate-me-t13438009

Hope this helps...and BTW Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!:eusa_clap

Thank you Nik, but sadly, when i click on "Congratulate Me" it takes me to something called - Volume 9 Three Little Fishes- ....

right song not playing

HadleyH · Nov 19, 2010

I'm sorry if i was not clear ... what i need is the full version of this song online!

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One of the Regulars

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One Too Many

I'll Lock Up

One of the Regulars

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I'll Lock Up

I'll Lock Up

One of the Regulars

I'll Lock Up

I'll Lock Up

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