What are you listening to?

Wash In Lux · Nov 19, 2009

LizzieMaine said:
78s to try and get up the nerve to call the endodontist by --

Starting off with an oddball hit from 1934, with Borah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals squealing out "Chinatown My Chinatown." One of the earliest Decca releases, it was no doubt inspiration for thousands of desperate harmonicists trying to get on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.

I've got some Vitaphones with Borah Minnevich. They're pretty goofy.

Wash In Lux · Nov 19, 2009

Just got a 2 disc set in the mail today of Webb Pierce - The Complete 4-Star & Pacemaker Recordings. 30 tracks of late 40's, early 50's honky tonkin' goodness!

BellyTank · Nov 19, 2009

Debasish Mukherjee- tabla virtuoso.

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AmateisGal · Nov 19, 2009

My Gene Krupa station on Pandora.

Falconetti · Nov 20, 2009

Anthony Newley's Aint it Funny..... beautiful song by one of my fave singers...

LizzieMaine · Nov 20, 2009

78s to wonder if there's a convenient way to transfuse caffeine directly into my veins by --

Starting off with Big Hearted Arthur Askey himself, in 1940, with the ultimate brace-up-it's-the-Blitz song, "Bomb! Bomb! Get In Your Shelter!" "Get yourselves right under ground, when those Nazis fly around!" Yes sir!

Next, we slide smoothly back to 1930 with Gene Austin, and a very persuasive rendition of "Lies." Never trust a crooner.

Wash In Lux · Nov 20, 2009

So Lizzie, what IS the second coolest small town in America? For that matter, what's the first?

LizzieMaine · Nov 20, 2009

Wash In Lux said:
So Lizzie, what IS the second coolest small town in America? For that matter, what's the first?

http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/

Those Owego people only won because they stuffed the ballot box. Bums.

Hamilton_Honey · Nov 20, 2009

What Goes Up Must Come Down (And Baby You've Been Flyin' Too High)

Les Brown and His Orchestra
Vocal refrain by Miriam Shaw

And the flips side...needs some serious cleaning.

lolly_loisides · Nov 20, 2009

The honeymoon is over - The Cruel Sea

imported_miss_molly · Nov 20, 2009

Fats Waller.

Shangas · Nov 21, 2009

Miss Molly, I love you already.

Bernie Cummins and His Orchestra - "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" (Rec. 1930)

*Foot-taps and nods along*

Hamilton_Honey · Nov 21, 2009

I should be eating corn pone with this...

78 on RCA Victor label

A - "Friendship" by Tommy Dorsey Family (Mountain Branch)

B - "Chattanooga Choo Choo" by the Hollywood Hillbillies with singing

So is anyone familiar with these? I get the idea they might be sort of Tongue-in-cheek spoofs playing off the country/hillbilly fad, but am not having any luck yet with a google search.

thanks y'all

HadleyH · Nov 21, 2009

This time I'm listening to my favorite dance band from the 20s and 30s: Isham Jones , the song "What's the Use" 1930, with Frank Sylvano as vocalist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai7ff5FdUUc

Wally_Hood · Nov 21, 2009

LizzieMaine said:
http://www.budgettravel.com/bt-srv/coolestsmalltowns/

Those Owego people only won because they stuffed the ballot box. Bums.

Rockland, Maine... reminds me of the line "...from the rock-ribbed coasts of Maine..."

But I may have jumbled it up a bit.

Wally_Hood · Nov 21, 2009

Ringworld, by Larry Niven, on cassette, purchased from the local library for fifty cents. I'd heard so much about it growing up, this is probably the only way to get to "read" it.

LadyStardust · Nov 21, 2009

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For only about the 100th time, but it never gets old.

Oh, and Tchaikovsky's "Seasons".

Shangas · Nov 21, 2009

Got a playlist of 20s, 30s and 40s songs on Winamp at the moment. Current track is...

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "Anything Goes" (Rec. 1934)

Carlisle Blues · Nov 21, 2009

"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones, 1924)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhAGfp4DIbY&feature=related

Shangas · Nov 21, 2009

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - "My Blue Heaven".

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