What are you listening to?

[Chas]

Nat King Cole at the piano: The 1949 Capitol recording of "Three Little Words". Sublime.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The High Hatters -- You've Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (1930)
Victor 22409

Listening to this version it seems as if they used the same arrangement as on the Maurice Chevalier recording.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Ear Worm"

"Came across this Jolly Tune, in another thread, and can't get it out of my head"

[YOUTUBE]OELOHX5sKbg[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Wally_Hood]

The Adventures of the Scarlet Cloak, radio audition from February, 1950. It's a demo show, designed to land a sponsor. Set in 1842 California, there is a Zorro-type masked crime fighter, helping local innocents battle pre-Gold Rush gangsters. Wendell Niles, the King of All Announcers, does the lead. It sounds like Gerald Mohr doing the announcing and the part of the bad guy.

Interestingly, part of the pitch for selling the show to a potential sponsor is that the program could very easily translate to a television program.

 

[Fletch]

Lucky "3-6-9" - Tiny Parham's Musicians, 1929. Someone must have hit "the number." Great little performance with lotsa chug. I think Charlie Johnson on alto sax was the best of the bunch, except maybe Punch Miller on trumpet.

 

[Miss sofia]

Johnny Burnette - "Eager beaver baby"

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to sizzle in the heat by --

Now playing, from 1936 it's a tasty novelty tune by Nat Shilkret's brother Jack and his Orchestra, "One Hamburger For Madame." Chick Bullock vocalizes the order. And hold the onions!

Next, following -- how appropriate -- a commercial for Bromo Seltzer, it's the Andrews Sisters in 1943 and "One Meat Ball." Haven't these people ever heard of rationing?

 

[Fletch]

Ya gits no bread. Ain't that rationing enough?

Another Tiny Parham number y'all might like is Washboard Wiggles, 1929. Drummer Ernie Marrero doubles on thimbles.

 

[Harp]

Nightmare, Artie Shaw. Cuts like a knife.

 

[lolly_loisides]

Janet Klein & her Parlor Boy's latest CD, "Whoopee! Hey! Hey! Songs to cheer in tumultuous times"

 

[HadleyH]

ok... youtube is not working for me I hate youtube!










Early Crosby, "I'm Through with Love" 1931

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y62ApRsQ51g

 

[Mr. K.L.Bowers]

Rat Patrol Radio

 

[Fletch]

High Up on a Hill Top - Hal Kemp & Ork, 1928.

Kemp's band usually used 3 saxes (including himself), but you'll hear a 4-piece sax section here.
The 4th player was almost certainly "Bromo" Sulser, who was also the only violinist to record with Kemp.
(My grandpa played in "Bromo's" band in Iowa City about 1924.)

 

[Cricket]

Thanks to Fletch, I too am listening to Hal Kemp. Thanks for posting. :eusa_clap

 

[Fletch]

Cricket, check out jazz-on-line.com - put Kemp in their search engine and find a good selection of his tunes.

Postcard of the Kemp band, ca. 1933.

 

[Cricket]

Thanks Fletch. From your link, I continued searching some Kemp Orchestra numbers. I believe it was Gloomy Sunday that blew me away. Then there was another item I found thanks to your link that is showing me some numbers from Bunny Berigan, Charlie Barnet and Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra.

I am expanding my ears to other orchestras that I was unaware of. But thanks to you, I have found several this afternoon that I am really impressed with that I otherwise wouldn't have found. Plus, the boys in the office are getting an ear full from my computer. lol So far no complaints.

I will try jazz online. Thanks again.

 

[Cricket]

Also, by the way, my maiden name was Kemp...maybe it was meant to be.

 

[silverscreen789]

Judy Garland. She could tear a person's heart into little bits. Amazing.

 

[Wally_Hood]

It Pays to be Ignorant, undated broadcast. Crazy closing of someone crooning "It pays... to be ignorant..." over a lush studio band.

 

[LizzieMaine]

78s to batten down the hatches for the coming storm by --

Starting off in 1934 with Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra and "You're Such A Comfort To Me." Nobody ever did cutie-pie duets quite so well as Ozzie and Harriet, and this one's a prime example of them at their peak, long before Ozzie's sad descent into Daddy's-A-Dope-But-We-Love-Him-Anyway.

Next, it's a prime contestant in the Not Quite Annette Hanshaw Derby, seventeen-year-old Miss Sylvia Froos in 1931, with "You Didn't Know The Music." Eatcha heart out, Baby Rose Marie.