What are you listening to?

[Shangas]

Shangas, do you like some of Jack Webb's early work, such as Pat Novak, Johnny Madero, Jeff Regan, etc.?

I've heard OF IT, but I've never listened to it, I'll admit. "Pat Novak" is a name I've heard of before, though. Perhaps I'll look it up. Is he any good listening to?

Cab Calloway - "Minnie the Moocher".

Hidey-hidey-hidey-hi! (Hidey-hidey-hidey-hi...)
Heyde-heyde-heyde-hey! (Heyde-heyde-heyde-hey...)

 

[Fletch]

I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
Jean Goldkette's Orchestra in 1927 with Billy "Methuselah" Murray, Joe Venuti, Tram and just a bit o' Bix at the rideout.

...and it's overlooking me. Uptown String Band, Philadelphia, 1947.

 

[Sarge]

CHICAGO - Tommy Dorsey with Sy Oliver and The Sentimentalists .

 

[Wally_Hood]

I've heard OF IT, but I've never listened to it, I'll admit. "Pat Novak" is a name I've heard of before, though. Perhaps I'll look it up. Is he any good listening to? QUOTE]

Novak, Madero, Regan are all characters played by Webb prior to his Sgt. Friday character on Dragnet. Check out archive.org, or google the names of the characters.

It's fun to see Webb develop the dead pan delivery which was perfected in Dragnet.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to swelter by --

Now playing, Dick Powell in 1933 with "The Road Is Open Again!", the official song of the National Recovery Administration, as introduced in a film short of the same name. Powell blasts into Nelson Eddy territory for the rousing finale.

(Note that Dick gets to share the billing on the sheet music.)

Next up, Ted Fio Rito and his Orchestra in 1937 with a lush rendition of "Vieni Vieni." Muzzy Marcellino and the Debutantes on the not-too-Vallee-like vocal.

 

[Fletch]

Now wait just one cotton pickin' minute there Miss Lizzie...

If that stuffed-shirt Connecticut Yankee has more of a claim on Vieni, Vieni than two paesan's named Fio Rito and Marcellino,
I will steam, sauté, and eat my self-banded heavyweight felt Borsalino.

I'm not a poet, and I know it. But I call my back teeth "Ogdens" 'cause they gnash.

 

[HadleyH]

Annette Hanshaw " That's You, Baby" 1929.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOEC9ikTgSQ&feature=related

 

[Fletch]

on the meatbox

Joe Haymes' ork in 1936 with River Man, sung by smooth baritone Barry McKinley.

Got no daily work to do
Got no reason to be blue
I'm afraid I envy you, river man

 

[Professor]

My latest favorite tune...
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[SayCici]

'Young Love'

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to try and fix my broken glasses by --

Now playing, the Mills Brothers in 1932, in all their "Four Boys And A Guitar" glory, with "I Can't Give You Anything But Love." If there ever was a prototypical early Mills record, this would be it.

Next up, back to 1926 with British stage stars Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan, and "A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You." Reminds me that I need to pack a lunch for work today.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

"Harlem in Montmartre", Great Performances on PBS. This music makes me want to move and purr.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Nice and Torchy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-YlzWYRv84

 

[Fletch]

December, 1932, and time to enjoy one of those new Royal Blue Columbia Records.
This one's by Enric Madriguera and his swell Biltmore Hotel Orchestra, and is an example of the sophistication pop musicians can get away with when they think no one is listening.
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[ThesFlishThngs]

Benny Goodman, 1934-1939 (while supposedly tidying the house, but actually pasting the tag from my new body shaper into my journal.....).

 

[J.L. Picard]

December, 1932, and time to enjoy one of those new Royal Blue Columbia Records.

Thank you Fletch, great choice :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[J.L. Picard]

Nice and Torchy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-YlzWYRv84

I love Amy's voice...magic, Thank you CB. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[J.L. Picard]

Annette Hanshaw " That's You, Baby" 1929.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOEC9ikTgSQ&feature=related

Touché Lady H. Great find :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[J.L. Picard]

Montreux Jazz Festival 1971 the great Carlos...

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc1nqaJXuq0&feature=PlayList&p=BFA60F333A967538&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9

I had a chance to listen to him in Montreux in 2006...what a night...

Was anybody else there?

 

[HadleyH]

This was really a very popular song in the late 20s and early 30s. It always appears in so many movies from that period.

It's called "Turn on the Heat"(1929)
(1929 was such a good year for great songs! :eusa_clap )


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