What are you listening to?

[chanteuseCarey]

Thank you BinkieB!! I'm hoping to add more as time goes along...

"Oh I rather like that, you remind me of Dianne Keaton, funny how static photos can say one thing about someone , but voice, facial expressions, say So much more!
:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap from me

 

[chanteuseCarey]

Thank you Mario! It was fun to do this, I'm looking forward to adding more down the road. I know LOTS of old songs- HA, too many! This was shot on the digital camera, so I only had a minute ten seconds! Next time will try the video camera so I can sing longer songs!

Carey...that was the most charming surprise! Sweet!! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap

 

[vitanola]

Well, the Prussian bands tend to me a bit more military. I collect pre-war German, Prussian, Bohemian, Polish, Serbo-Croat and Lithuanian recordings, and can confidently state that even the Carl Lindstrom talking machine companies (Parlophone, Odeon, Beka, Rena usw.) issued recordings of Bayerisch music throughout the empire, and those discs sold well indeed.

I suspect that the denizens of the Wittelsbach realm simply knew how to have good fun, and they set the pace for the rest of the empire. The Berliner stuff is altogether more cosmopolitan, though on the other hand, East Prussian Dorfmusik (the music played in the environs of Tilsit, now, sadly Kaliningrad, in the old times) can give the Bavarian stuff a good run for it's money, as can the Bohemian music, particularly that of the many Budweiser Kapellen.

 

[Widebrim]

Uh, well... me! As a lark for a FL friend, I recorded myself singing- just standing in front of the digital camera set up on a tripod. Just a capella, no orchestration.

The song is from the film 42nd Street, by Harry Warren

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My word, Carey, you are beautiful! And what a lovely voice!:eusa_clap My compliments to your husband...

 

[byronic]

Thank you Mario! It was fun to do this, I'm looking forward to adding more down the road. I know LOTS of old songs- HA, too many! This was shot on the digital camera, so I only had a minute ten seconds! Next time will try the video camera so I can sing longer songs!

Bravo, Carey:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
More, please!!

Also, my other half has recently introduced me to a chap called Matt Dusk. Our musical tastes don't always coincide, but now I'm hooked:
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[vitanola]

Tonight I was in an "Old Country" mood. Played stacks of green label Columbias and orange label Odeons, like these:

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I know. There is no accounting for taste!

Try listening to one or two of the above numbers if you are looking for something different. The last record is particularly nice, a lovely, simple folk song recorded in Cleveland in 1929.

The first record is a dance number by one of the best bands of the Anthracite region. Nice piece of work.

 

[Forgotten Man]

The Sound of 1939.

Artie Shaw with "Alone Together".
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The sound of 1930 with Jack Hylton "Happy Days are Here Again"
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A George Olson hit of 1928 "Doin' the Raccoon"
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[V.C. Brunswick]

Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra -- I'm In Seventh Heaven (1929)
Columbia 1877-D

 

[anon`]

Skinny Puppy - Killing Game

From [Last Rights]

 

[Shangas]

Forgotten Man, I shall join you, that I will.

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra - "If I Had a Talking Picture of You".

If I had a talking picture of you,
I would run it every time I felt blue.
I would sit there in the gloom of my lonely little room
And applaud each time you whispered, "I love you; love you."

On the screen the moment you came in view
We would talk the whole thing over, we two.
I would give ten shows a day,
and a midnight matinee,
If I had a talking picture of you.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to wait impatiently for the tea to steep by --

Starting off in 1939 with Hal Kemp and his Orchestra and The Smoothies, with a rollicking performance of the novelty hit of the year, "Three Little Fishies," a tune composed -- if that is indeed the word -- by the band's lead saxophonist, Saxie Dowell. Such was the public appetite for fey novelties in 1939 that "Three Little Fishies" led national sheet music sales for over a month, and made Mr. Dowell a very wealthy man. Nice work if you can get it, but that's a different song.

Next, ahead to 1943 for the best rhythm quartet that isn't the Mills Brothers, The Four Vagabonds, and their definitive performance of "Rosie The Riveter," a song which did as much as the Norman Rockwell painting to cement the image of the dinner-pail-toting, headscarf-wearing, hard-boiled gals of the assembly line. "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrp!"

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to throw away meaningless scraps of paper by --

Now playing, one of the earliest sides by Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra, a Decca from 1935 offering one of Cole Porter's duckiest "list songs," with Bob Eberle and Kay Weber back-and-forthing the vocal on "A Picture Of Me Without You." And yes, Bob sings "I'm getting so *damned* dependent on you."

Next, ahead to 1937 and Ray Noble and his Orchestra decorously swinging thru a great late-Depression number, "As Long As You've Got Your Health." Vocal is by the Merry Macs, the first great co-ed vocal group of the sort that would be all the rage in the forties.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Breakfast with Dorothy & Dick

Breakfast with Dorothy & Dick , was parodied wonderfully in Woody Allens "Radio Days,"


Irene and Roger ate
their elegant breakfast...



over the air from their
chic Manhattan townhouse...



while they chatted charmingly...



about people and places
we only dreamt of.



"You look marvellous, Darling, Oh the Big Sale at Tiffanies "



"Tomorrow morning, we'll be
telling you all about it,oh! darling, don't forget Binkie Baumont's wonderful new nostalgia Wireless show, on RTR FM"



"And also about
the new Moss Hart play..".



"which I hear is just divine"



"This is Irene Draper..."



"and Roger Daley saying have us
for breakfast tomorrow..."



"and every morning."



"And have a wonderful day."

"Between mouthfuls of toast and coffee the Kollmars, Dorothy & Dick broadcast from their swank 16-room Park Avenue apartment. They munch over the Times, books, hats, recipes, the theater, Broadway folk. Dorothy glides from chat into commercial as easily as into a housecoat. Dick gets his words in edgewise.
The children patter questions & answers (asked where Grandpa was, Dickie replied: "At the race track"). Sometimes Dick and Jill sing; the blamed canary never stops."

Dorothy had started it mostly for fun, but in one year it had become one of radio's most popular (800 letters a week) and lucrative husband-&-wife acts.* From their 20 sponsors (Bien Jolie Foundations and Bras, Taystee Bread, Sapolin Paint, etc.) Dorothy and Dick milk $1,000 a week. Said Dorothy, who reasons that she might as well get paid for talking at breakfast: "It's still fun."


Fred Alen & Tallulah Bankhead do A hilarious sketch on "Dorothy & Dick" on the "Fred Allen Show"

 

[byronic]

Paolo Nutini, his album 'Sunny Side Up', especially the track 'Pencil Full Of Lead'. Very vintage, sounding with a voice similar to Jackie Wilson. The video is worth seeking out on Youtube, very funny & inventive but also a little risque, which is why I'm not posting it here.

 

[Shangas]

Feeling in a 30s mood tonight after watching "Public Enemies". Listening to...

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - "King Porter Stomp" (rec. 1935)...

...as featured in the above film.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s for a November-in-May kind of morning ---

Starting off in 1928 with Jean Goldkette and his Orchestra and the Revelers teaming up for one of the big hits of the year, "Sunny Disposish." And that's pretty much the only thing that's sunny so far.

Next, in honor of Lena Horne, it's ahead to 1935 with Noble Sissle and his Orchestra and "What Love Did To Me," with an 18-year-old Lena on the vocal. Smooth, elegant, and the harbinger of a great career ahead.

 

[Fletch]

What you have there is "Leana"'s first recording of any kind (that's how it's spelled on the label to my Decca) - March 11, 1936.

Incredibly beautiful candid by Carl Van Vechten, 1941.

 

[Chas]

Lena. What else?

 

[Rock31]

Film Noir - The Gaslight Anthem.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to realize it's hard to eat breakfast if you don't have any food in the house by ---

Starting off in 1937 with Fats Waller and his Rhythm and the ever-timely "Spring Cleaning." "No lady, we can't haul yo' ashes for twenny-five cent -- that's bad bizness!"

Next, following a commercial for Ironized Yeast -- step up your pep, get back in high! -- it's back to 1935 for one of the handful of records made by Alice Faye, with a tune from "George White's 1935 Scandals," "According To The Moonlight." This is Alice in her "no, I'm really Jean Harlow except I can sing" phase.