What are you listening to?

[Giftmacher]

[video=youtube;JfdSC15DQJ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfdSC15DQJ8&list=UUJGiaudbqC1-D3vyMAM9Tzw&index=1&feature=plcp[/video]

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;r8XxH3Fp74I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8XxH3Fp74I[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Jack Payne and his BBC Dance Orchestra -- Bathing In The Sunshine (1931)

[video=youtube;f-18I9ZR3pU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-18I9ZR3pU[/video]

Bathing in the sunshine
That's the latest style
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby's smile
Just to get the sunshine
People travel miles
But I get the sunshine
The sunshine in my baby's smile
Others afford to go
To Monte Carlo or Spain
Nice or sunny Italy
So I'll just remain
In the little love nest
Happy all the while
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby's smile

 

[DesertDan]

The War Of The Worlds - Mercury Theater On The Air

 

[Warden]

I say, todays BBC 3 Counties Radio interview with us (Harry & Edna) is on the link below from 1.30 We are talking about wartime food. Enjoy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00p1zd4

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

[video=youtube;eh9u4syml1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9u4syml1U[/video]
[video=youtube;FgBuUkKEe_U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgBuUkKEe_U[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Henry Hall and his Gleneagles Hotel Band -- Have You Forgotten

[video=youtube;RLt7_wzFp1w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLt7_wzFp1w[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Harry Bidgood's Broadcasters -- Good Little Bad Little You (1929)

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

 

[AtomicEraTom]

[video=youtube;Mfk5YrScS2k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfk5YrScS2k[/video]

 

[Fletch]

Duke Ellington and his Famousness with the handsomely impressionist Blue Mood, 1932. Don't know about you, but it sounds kinda ochre-yellow to me.

Guy Paquinet, aka "Patrick", and his orchestra with the trans-atlantic hit Hands Across the Table, 1935. Danceable Django-powered rhythm.

Cliff Jackson's Krazy Kats, recording for the el cheapo Grey Gull Co. in 1930, do a nicely funky take on a piece goods called No One But Betty Brown.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Harry Bidgood's Broadcasters -- Welcome Home (1929)

[video=youtube;26d_zGgJJmg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26d_zGgJJmg[/video]

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Duke Ellington and his Famousness with the handsomely impressionist Blue Mood, 1932.

"handsomely impressionist"... that'd be a good description for ALL of Duke's music. At least everything up until WWII, after which his previously impeccable sense of Good Taste seemed to come and go, at least to my ears...

 

[Shangas]

Billy Murray singing "Sahara" from 1920.

'Sahara' was one of the many songs written about the forthcoming laws regarding prohibition in the United States during the 20s and 30s.

Piano-roll of the song:

[video=youtube;CbB8VLw7w_I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbB8VLw7w_I&feature=plcp&context=C41e0302VDvjVQa1PpcFMVf2WKcrpBinqhB2FQTkDS 6VdnH0NVr2Y%3D[/video]

Lyrics: (If you want to sing along to the music, the melody starts at 0:33. There's a brief instrumental at 1:50 for a few seconds, before it starts again at 2:00, for 'All the fakirs...').

King Rameses went to pieces,
Seven thousand years ago,
And passed a law, that Eygpt must go dry!

He took the liquor from the slickers,
All the way to Jerhico,
But kept his little toddy on the sly,

The deserts of Sahara flowed with honey,
So they say, 'Til Prohibition came along,
And dried them up one day!

Sahara, we sympathise with you,
Sahara, we'll soon be dry like you,
I know why Cleopatra put that snake against her skin,
She lost her mind completely, when she lost her Gordon Gin!

Omar Kayyam!Took a leap into his caravan,
Grabbed his jug of wine and then he flew!

And ever since,
All those Eygptians move their funny arms, so queer!
They got that way from reaching for imaginary steins of beer!

Sahara, Sahara, we'll soon be dry like you!

All the fakirs, turned milkshakers,
When they heard the awful news,
No more the arab sang Muhammad's prayers!

The camels halted and revolted,
When they took away the booze,
And travelled without water, seven days!

They brought the news to Cairo,
And the folks were all surprised,
The shock was so intense they say,
They all got paralysed!

Sahara, we sympathise with you,
Sahara, we'll soon be dry like you,
I know why Cleopatra put that snake against her skin,
She lost her mind completely when she lost her Gordon Gin,

Omar Kayyam, took a leap into his caravan,
Grabbed his jug of wine and then he flew!

Now I found out the reason for the silence of the mighty Sphinx,
Her throat got dry, she couldn't talk, when they came and took away her drinks!

Sahara, Sahara, we'll soon be dry like you (I've got the old Sahara prohibition blues!)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

There was also this one written by Irving Berlin.

Billy Murray -- I'll See You In C-U-B-A (1920)

[video=youtube;ehUSElG3VeU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehUSElG3VeU[/video]

 

[Shangas]

I have that one on my computer as well. I love that song. The Prohibtion songs were really indicative of an era. The first protest songs, I reckon.

Now listening to the Edison Concert Band from 1913, playing one of my favourite songs. One which was a hit for the Mills Brothers in the 1950s...

Here they are on television in 1957:

[video=youtube;8myK93FqbYc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myK93FqbYc&feature=fvwrel[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And then this one is my favorite of all the Prohibition songs

Waring's Pennsylvanians -- Hello Montreal (1928)

[video=youtube;54dCz0AMuzE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dCz0AMuzE[/video]

 

[HadleyH]

What the heck

nice is nice never mind anything


[video=youtube;o4Uf7nxmDNg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Uf7nxmDNg[/video]

 

[Shangas]

Ooh I don't know that one, Victor. That's cool! I like it.

And HadleyH, I have the entire album of Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook". My dad bought it for me as a present. Some people don't like his renditions, but I think they're beautiful.

 

[HadleyH]

And HadleyH, I have the entire album of Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook". My dad bought it for me as a present. Some people don't like his renditions, but I think they're beautiful.

Your Dad has excellent taste because they are beautiful! :eusa_clap

 

[Shangas]

I am now listening to the theme tune to "Amos'n'Andy", performed by Louis Katzman and The Brunswick Orchestra. Namely...

"The Perfect Song".

Here's a piano-roll of it:

[video=youtube;otv6meJ8W3I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otv6meJ8W3I[/video]

The theme as played in the popular 1920s radio-series was at a much faster tempo, so if you don't recognise it right away, that's why.