Popular Songs (1920-1945)

[Musicology]

A short thread on popular songs of the period 1920 to around 1945.

1/10

Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
'The Sun Has Got Its Hat On' (1932)
Ambrose Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIpkz6DOi8

2/10

Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
'Run, Rabbit Run !' (1941)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdoZNxtL8k

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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Musicology,

Thanks for sharing the nostalgic music.

My parents suffered through the Depression and WW II. Both served in the military during WW II; "The Greatest Generation" according to Brockaw and myself included.
Both are now deceased, but among the many memories and mementoes left behind, I particularly enjoyed the music they played as I was growing up. Much of what they enjoyed falls in the timeline of your thread, particularly the late 30's and 40's.
"Big Band" and jazz was king during the war period with the likes of Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, et al and was played quite often in our home.

Another musician that was heard incessantly throughout our home was Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - "The King of Texas Swing".

Here are a few favorites that I have grown quite fond of:

Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest
"Comes Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM

"Begin the Beguine"
(The crackle of the vinyl adds a certain character to it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ylR4Y6Cl1o&feature=related

Glenn Miller
"Moonlight Serenade"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBvksGdhxA&feature=related

Bob Wills
"Roly Poly"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJON2YxoEU

and one of my all time favorites "Big Beaver":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXmPZSM07o&feature=PlayList&p=45D7734600E7606D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

[Musicology]

Hi there Gilliat Gurgle. Some really nice things you've posted here !

[AuntShecky]

Maybe there's something wrong with me as I never really liked the music my generation was supposed to like (The Beatles, et al., although I liked some of the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, for instance.) Instead I adore the music in the era you mentioned as well as the bebop and
jazz of the 1950s (Dizzy, Bird, Miles, Coltrane, and Monk.)

And the Big Band era of Ellington and Basie --I love it madly! Strange huh, to feel more attuned (no pun intended) with the music of the generation that preceded me. Maybe it's some kind of psychological malady? But as the man says, "I know what I like."

Thanks for posting this thread. Hope others add more
examples of their faves.

ps -- Don't forget songwriters! Arlen, Mercer, the Gershwins, Porter, Berlin, etc.

[DanielBenoit]

Oh I'm so happy to find some people who appretiate the great music of a lost age. Long live Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller!

[Scheherazade]

How about Edith Piaf?

[Musicology]

3/10

George Gershwin
'I Got Plenty of Nothing'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZuwxT2omw

4/10

George Gershwin
Someone to watch over Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2bh1bQSfE&feature=fvw

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5/10

Noel Gay
'Letting in the Sunshine' (1933)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgyRylajS4

6/10

Noel Gay
'Lambeth Walk'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9pnzYzvBI

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[Fen]

Don't forget Bing Crosby

Swinging on a star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATftJiWdkw&feature=related

Or Fred Astaire
Putting on the Ritz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02k9t4rP50

I really like Bing and Glen Miller my whole family does it's nice to meet others with the same good taste.

Oh and Run, Rabbit Run is so fun to sing along to, thanks for posting that.

[Emil Miller]

Thank God for some real popular music rather than the mechanised trash that has permiated the airwaves ( easy money of course ) for the last 60 years.
OK, here are just three of so many that could be posted.
Jessie Matthews born into the poorest of families rose to become the Queen of British musical comedy. Here she sings Roger's and Hart's 'Dancing on the Ceiling' from the film Evergreen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE1g2rFiQ8k

The great Charles Trenet sings La Mer which he wrote and performs with wonderful artistry in a performance that has that quality of smiling through tears because the sea is such a part of most peoples lives.

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

Hoagy Charmichael wrote Stardust in 1927 but the difinitve recording must be Nat King Cole's peformance with a superb orchestral arrangement ( Gordon Jenkins?) that really says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4DZlfqKBRU

[Musicology]

7/10

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Five Variants on An Old English Theme (1938) 'Dives and Lazarus'
For Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4bx4r1VeQ&feature=related

8/10

Puccini
Aria from Opera 'Turandot'
'Nessun Dorma'
Soloist - Jussi Bjorling (Tenor)

Danish Radio Broadcast (Copenhagen) March 1944

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk&feature=related

9/10

Walt Disney
'Little Toot' (1948)
Andrews Sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUJLlXTh74

10/10

Eddy Duchin/Carmen Cavellero
'Lovely to Look At' (1935)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sPb7HOwuHE

[Emil Miller]

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Puccini
Aria from Opera 'Turandot'
'Nessun Dorma'
Soloist - Jussi Bjorling (Tenor)

Danish Radio Broadcast (Copenhagen) March 1944

Nessun Dorma by Bjorling is world famous but this great Swedish tenor was indifferent to recording and didn't do as much as he might have done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk&feature=related

9/10

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Great music posted by all!
Gershwin via Fitzgerald
Bing Swinging on a Star!
Jessie Matthews very nice Brian
Etc, etc,…!

Being the youngest of five children, I was exposed to a wide range of music covering several decades and genres imparting some level of appreciation for all. In fact I could, on occasion, be found guilty of listening to some “mechanized trash” at least up through the early 90’s.
But I digress, so I shall return to the era at hand:

My mother was quite accomplished at the piano. In her younger years she purchased sheet music for popular songs of the period arranged for piano. Most of the music she acquired featured a song made famous by a movie, a band or popular vocalist of that time period. Fortunately for us she kept most if not all (roughly one hundred pieces) of her sheet music that eventually ended up in my hands.
Here are two very popular songs from the time period including the sheet music from my mother’s collection.

“When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World)”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8sEFpbk-w


A wonderful and poignant song popular during the war, when people were longing for the days when there were no more bombing raids and blackouts, ships could sail the seas without fear from the terror that lurked below.
Note the “Buy War Bonds and Stamps for Victory” message in the corner


“As Time Goes By”
Casablanca - need I say more?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J07MoCdar2E


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/WhentheLights_AsTimeGoesBy.jpg


A look inside:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/AsTimeGoesBy-music.jpg

Gilliatt

[Musicology]

Yes Brian,

To me, Bjorling is the equivalent of the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti. His recordings are amazing. And too few.


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Puccini
Aria from Opera 'Turandot'
'Nessun Dorma'
Soloist - Jussi Bjorling (Tenor)

Danish Radio Broadcast (Copenhagen) March 1944

Nessun Dorma by Bjorling is world famous but this great Swedish tenor was indifferent to recording and didn't do as much as he might have done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG914GATk&feature=related

9/10

Very nice, Gilliat Gurgle !


Great music posted by all!
Gershwin via Fitzgerald
Bing Swinging on a Star!
Jessie Matthews very nice Brian
Etc, etc,…!

Being the youngest of five children, I was exposed to a wide range of music covering several decades and genres imparting some level of appreciation for all. In fact I could, on occasion, be found guilty of listening to some “mechanized trash” at least up through the early 90’s.
But I digress, so I shall return to the era at hand:

My mother was quite accomplished at the piano. In her younger years she purchased sheet music for popular songs of the period arranged for piano. Most of the music she acquired featured a song made famous by a movie, a band or popular vocalist of that time period. Fortunately for us she kept most if not all (roughly one hundred pieces) of her sheet music that eventually ended up in my hands.
Here are two very popular songs from the time period including the sheet music from my mother’s collection.

“When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World)”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD8sEFpbk-w


A wonderful and poignant song popular during the war, when people were longing for the days when there were no more bombing raids and blackouts, ships could sail the seas without fear from the terror that lurked below.
Note the “Buy War Bonds and Stamps for Victory” message in the corner


“As Time Goes By”
Casablanca - need I say more?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J07MoCdar2E


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/WhentheLights_AsTimeGoesBy.jpg


A look inside:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/AsTimeGoesBy-music.jpg

Gilliatt

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Glad you enjoyed that.

In honor of Presidents Day over here, how about a little Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn in “Million Dollar Baby" (Movie title)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1412.jpg


Here is the movie trailer: (From Turner Classic Movies website)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=97087

and the song as recorded by Bing Crosby in 1931:

Bing Crosby – “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbPeLevi-uQ


Here's a little something I'll borrow from the Texas Sonata thread:
“Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer”

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1411.jpg

as recorded by “The Four Vagabonds”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcVZZOCx44&feature=related

I was unable to find a Kayser version of Wing and a Prayer, but here is Kay Kayser and his Orchestara with vocals by Harry Babbitt performing “White Cliffs of Dover”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJTkjFTtt4&feature=related

Gilliatt

[Fen]

Ronald Regan doesn't look that different does he?

[Musicology]

Hi there Gilliat Gurgle,

Please let us know when you start your radio station, specialising in these old songs ! Surely lots of people would listen.

A friend of mine is an expert in computers and is fixing me up with a website on other matters. He tells me anyone can start a radio station - LOL.

So you could have your special radio station beaming out these oldies ! Imagine the requests !!

Regards




Glad you enjoyed that.

In honor of Presidents Day over here, how about a little Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn in “Million Dollar Baby" (Movie title)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1412.jpg


Here is the movie trailer: (From Turner Classic Movies website)
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=97087

and the song as recorded by Bing Crosby in 1931:

Bing Crosby – “I Found a Million Dollar Baby (In a Five and Ten Cent Store)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbPeLevi-uQ


Here's a little something I'll borrow from the Texas Sonata thread:
“Comin in on a Wing and a Prayer”

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/For%20the%20Sonata/IMG_1411.jpg

as recorded by “The Four Vagabonds”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcVZZOCx44&feature=related

I was unable to find a Kayser version of Wing and a Prayer, but here is Kay Kayser and his Orchestara with vocals by Harry Babbitt performing “White Cliffs of Dover”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJTkjFTtt4&feature=related

Gilliatt

[yanni]

This one is younger Gilliat, but of an ageless style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GEaa9QGOd4&feature=related

[Emil Miller]

So you could have your special radio station beaming out these oldies ! Imagine the requests !!

It would be like water to those cast in the desert of infantilism that has blighted the world for decades.

[Musicology]

Yes indeed,

Some of the very finest music.

And there are some very interesting options -

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Radio-Station

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/427826/build_your_own_radio_station/

etc.

Not forgetting -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYetxF516lg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q





So you could have your special radio station beaming out these oldies ! Imagine the requests !!

It would be like water to those cast in the desert of infantilism that has blighted the world for decades.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

It would be like water to those cast in the desert of infantilism that has blighted the world for decades.

Brian,
You certainly have a succinct and well crafted way of driving a point home!


Yes indeed,

Some of the very finest music.

And there are some very interesting options -

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Radio-Station

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/427826/build_your_own_radio_station/

etc.

Not forgetting -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYetxF516lg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q

I certainly appreciate the sentiment and confidence in my abilities, but if I had the additional time to devote to such an endeavor, I would first dedicate it to rediscovering the pencil and brush.

That is funny stuff from the other side of the pond!

Gilliatt

[Emil Miller]

Brian,
You certainly have a succinct and well crafted way of driving a point home!


Gilliatt,
I think it was Shakespeare who said 'Brevity is the soul of wit.'

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Album1/IMG_1422.jpg


Here is a recording-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ


The title says it all; a humorous drama played out on thousands of rural homesteads across the United States when the “doughboys” came home at the end of WW I. The U.S. entered the war in 1917 as the American Expeditionary Force “AEF” in an effort to help tip the scales of a stagnant war. At the end of the war many, perhaps all, of the troops passed through Paris as they made there way west across France toward various ports of departure back home.

Imagine the cultural shock to those young lads when they had some R & R time exploring Paris. My maternal grandfather, the son of Czech immigrants, was an example of one such “doughboy”.

Here is a post card sent from my grandfather to his brother back home on the farm:

Front
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Album1/Postcardfront.jpg


Back
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Album1/Paris02.jpg


From the Ziegfeld Follies; “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody”.
Music and words by Irving Berlin

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Album1/IMG_1423.jpg


I found this gem of a recording
(The song actually starts at about 1:00):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMsuQIw6D8

Gilliatt

[Emil Miller]

http://

From the Ziegfeld Follies; “A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody”.
Music and words by Irving Berlin

[IMG]http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Album1/IMG_1423.jpg


I found this gem of a recording
(The song actually starts at about 1:00):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoMsuQIw6D8

Gilliatt

Gilliatt, it's absolutely hilarious when the announcer says:"He has just returned from America. On his first visit, he went for six weeks and stayed for nine months and I'm sure we all hope he will do the same again."

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Gilliatt, it's absolutely hilarious when the announcer says:"He has just returned from America. On his first visit, he went for six weeks and stayed for nine months and I'm sure we all hope he will do the same again."

That is funny!
I did not catch that during my search.

Gilliatt

[nico_nomnom]

I love this thread :)
Being 17, nobody expects a young gun like myself to be interested in jazz and all that, but I must say I'm rather besotted with Humphrey Lyttleton and Geroge Melly and others of that generation. Bob Dylan's theme time radio on Radio 2 truly makes Christmas :)

[Emil Miller]

I love this thread :)
Being 17, nobody expects a young gun like myself to be interested in jazz and all that, but I must say I'm rather besotted with Humphrey Lyttleton and Geroge Melly and others of that generation. Bob Dylan's theme time radio on Radio 2 truly makes Christmas :)

If you like Humphrey Littleton then check out Chris Barber's recordings from the 1950 and early 60s. Nice to hear that someone aged 17 is able to think for himself. When I was your age this was what we listened to and we had a lot more fun than the media conditioned kids of today. Great times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDyb3LsjKIg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_7N12a_sI

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A couple from the Coon Creek Girls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwd3SDjRRJU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Q_sYeOQlk&feature=related

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[Emil Miller]

See kiddiewinkies, this is how it's done.


http://youtu.be/nKgUq5dziEk

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

See kiddiewinkies, this is how it's done.
http://youtu.be/nKgUq5dziEk

Wonderful!

Here's another piece of sheet music featuring "I'm and Old Cowhand" with Bing Crosby on the cover promoting the movie; "Rhythm on the Range". Words and music by Johnny Mercer:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1623.jpg



Here's a recording I found on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFS6UXi4DB4


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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Another random pick from my collection of sheet music:

Deanna Durbin singing "Always" from the movie "Christmas Holiday".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEEs2KZYgI


I just discovered that the movie is based on William Somerset Maugham's book; "Christmas Holiday"


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1704.jpg

[stlukesguild]

A few standards... from across the spectrum of musical genre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIDOEsQL7lA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cV5QOZHNH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCxb5bCqTE&feature=fvst

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

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

The original of this dates from the 1930s... but I quite like this recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RIn-ov1yJM

This one breaks outside of dates 1900-1945, dating from 1860... but who cares?

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

And who can ignore the first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-iMFtU1TrE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4Q3oB4fS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtKXTbeWWX4

[Emil Miller]

Another random pick from my collection of sheet music:

Deanna Durbin singing "Always" from the movie "Christmas Holiday".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEEs2KZYgI


I just discovered that the movie is based on William Somerset Maugham's book; "Christmas Holiday"


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1704.jpg


Wow! Thanks for he information Gilliatte. Although I've read Christmas Holiday twice, I had no idea there was a film of it, especially one directed by Robert Siodmak, one of the high priests of film noir, and scripted by the Herman J. Mankiewicz who co-scripted Citizen Kane. The story has been transposed from England and Paris to America and only superficially resembles the novel
but the photography is great and Deanna Durbin looks marvellous in her role, at least in the video extract below. The music is Wagner's Liebestod delivered in the best Hollywood tradition of the 1940s and must have had the women reaching for the Kleenex in droves. Amazing to see Gene Kelly cast as the villain.

http://youtu.be/YqTgwbgM0qg

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

A few standards... from across the spectrum of musical genre...

...And who can ignore the first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster...



Great selection!

Ella and Louis – what more can you say?
Hard Times Come Again No More – Wonderful!

Blind Boy Fuller – It is interesting to note the use of “blind” in the nickname for several of the blues greats. For example, there’s Blind Lemon Jefferson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTX1rNr6izs&feature=related



Wow! Thanks for he information Gilliatte. Although I've read Christmas Holiday twice, I had no idea there was a film of it, especially one directed by Robert Siodmak, one of the high priests of film noir, and scripted by the Herman J. Mankiewicz who co-scripted Citizen Kane...


Yes Emil, that caught me completely by surprise. As I say it was an entirely random pick from the stack. As soon as I saw Maugham’s name at the start of the video, I figured you would be responding in no time. Looks like a movie I need to add to my growing list!
Btw, I finished “The Moon and Sixpence” last night.
I'll put my thoughts together and post at some point.



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[Emil Miller]

Yes Emil, that caught me completely by surprise. As I say it was an entirely random pick from the stack. As soon as I saw Maugham’s name at the start of the video, I figured you would be responding in no time. Looks like a movie I need to add to my growing list!
Btw, I finished “The Moon and Sixpence” last night.
I'll put my thoughts together and post at some point.

Yes , I'm sorry that I forgot to enquire about the Moon and Sixpence but I was so taken with the fact that Christmas Holiday had been filmed. The surprising thing about Maugham is that he didn't seem to care what Hollywood did with his work once he'd signed away the screen rights. I suppose that being a man of the theatre who had written a number of successful plays, he was a bit antipathetic to the cinema except as a medium for making money.

[stlukesguild]

It is interesting to note the use of “blind” in the nickname for several of the blues greats. For example, there’s Blind Lemon Jefferson:

Of course both Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Boy Fuller were actually blind... but I agree... there's a slew of other blind blues musicians: Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, etc...

[Emil Miller]

This is, despite an inner resistance to pop music (in its broadest sense ) as good as it gets.

http://youtu.be/tbnA78ravpY

[LitNetIsGreat]

This is, despite an inner resistance to pop music (in its broadest sense ) as good as it gets.

http://youtu.be/tbnA78ravpY

Mrs N infoms me that this was in When Harry Met Sally (one of her favourite films...) as she overheard it.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Peggy Lee-Very nice.Perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Backed up by Benny Goodman trio.

This is going back slightly before the stipulated period.
Fropm 1918; "Oh Frenchy"

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1799.jpg

The sheet music has both French and English lyrics.
I found this recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLlsHFUisu0

Verse 1:
Rosie Green was a village queen who enlisted as a nurse She waited for a chance And left for France with an Ambulance, Rosie Green met a chap named Jean, a soldier from Paree, When he said “Parlez vous, my pet” She said “I will, but not just yet.” When he’d speak in French to her, she’d answer lovingly

Chorus: Oh! Frenchy, Oh Frenchy, Although your language is so new to me, When you say, “Oui, oui, la la” “We” means you and me, la la, Oh! Frenchy, Oh Frenchy, Frenchy you’ve won my love with your bravery March on, March on, with any girl you see But when you la la la la la, Oh, Frenchy, your la la la’s for me.

Verse 2: Rosie Green married Soldier Jean when his furlough time arrived She said “Go pack your grip We’ll take a trip on a big ship,” Rosie Green took her soldier Jean home somewhere in Maine, They say her rural Pa and Ma, refused to do that oo la la, But when she’s alone with him you’ll hear this same refrain.


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[LitNetIsGreat]

More Harry James and Helen Forrest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYvONFHI2xw&NR=1

[Emil Miller]

How about this one?


http://youtu.be/zdistoUW4CQ

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

More Harry James and Helen Forrest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYvONFHI2xw&NR=1


How about this one?

http://youtu.be/zdistoUW4CQ

Great selections fellas.
I've had dreams about Helen. What a dame!
I particularly enjoy her recordings with Artie Shaw.
Here's one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM


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[LitNetIsGreat]

Great selections fellas.
I've had dreams about Helen. What a dame!
I particularly enjoy her recordings with Artie Shaw.
Here's one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM


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Ha, ha, good dreams then (better than mine), yes she is a royal dame.

Great clip as well, I think I am in love with Helen Forrest as well!

[Emil Miller]

OK, this one goes back to1939 but the arrangement is obviously much later.

http://youtu.be/-5maV2ziZcA

[LitNetIsGreat]

I like that one as well.

Me and Mrs Neely (mostly me) are going out of our minds here because I have a piece of music that is in my head that I can't explain. It is an old very famous piece of music (I see old fashioned dances) but I cannot place it.

I have hummed: da, da, da, da, da dada DA; da, da, da, da, da dada DA, da, da; da, da, Da, DA, DA, DA...,but to no avail - please help!

I realise that this is a slim hope, but I am desperate. However, I am very disappointed in Mrs Neely for not getting it from my perfect humming. Such a loose woman!! :smilewinkgrin:

I can't sleep until I place it...

[Emil Miller]

I like that one as well.

Me and Mrs Neely (mostly me) are going out of our minds here because I have a piece of music that is in my head that I can't explain. It is an old very famous piece of music (I see old fashioned dances) but I cannot place it.

I have hummed: da, da, da, da, da dada DA; da, da, da, da, da dada DA, da, da; da, da, Da, DA, DA, DA...,but to no avail - please help!

I realise that this is a slim hope, but I am desperate. However, I am very disappointed in Mrs Neely for not getting it from my perfect humming. Such a loose woman!! :smilewinkgrin:

I can't sleep until I place it...

Virtually impossible to discover, because without a time signature or the key signature, it might as well be Morse code. It needs to be heard by someone either whistling or humming it.
There are various websites devoted to answering the question but I guess you might have to jump through hoops to get the answer.

http://mashable.com/2009/08/30/find-that-song-name/

[LitNetIsGreat]

Thank you for your help. I'm going out of my mind. I've been humming at people all day and they think I am mad!

I will find it eventually, thanks for the link I'll look into that. It was a piece of music that I associate with old fashioned waltzs/tea dances sort of thing.

[Emil Miller]

I will find it eventually, thanks for the link I'll look into that. It was a piece of music that I associate with old fashioned waltzs/tea dances sort of thing.

A bit before my time but not much.

It's not this one by any chance?


http://youtu.be/UUc7SfUD3Ag

[LitNetIsGreat]

No, close but too classy.

It's something closer to this in tone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0iGLrz71HM&feature=related

Bingo!!!!
:party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
:crazy:

[Emil Miller]

This man was married 11 times but he is best remembered for this composition which dominated the popular music scene when it appeared.

http://youtu.be/rovAmKuJeX0

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Bingo!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
:crazy:

I was struggling with your “da da da’s."
Glen Miller, is a major deity of the Big Band era!
Another very popular, timeless piece by Miller is “In the Mood”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM&feature=related

Others include – “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFv_PoZ2iP0



This man was married 11 times but he is best remembered for this composition which dominated the popular music scene when it appeared.

http://youtu.be/rovAmKuJeX0

I was not familiar with Charlie Barnet. His style, or at least this recording, has a strong jazz feel to it. Nice.

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[LitNetIsGreat]

I was struggling with your “da da da’s."
Glen Miller, is a major deity of the Big Band era!
Another very popular, timeless piece by Miller is “In the Mood”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-o...eature=related

You wasn't the only one, Mrs N thought I was mad! Oh, yes I recognise that one of course.


This man was married 11 times but he is best remembered for this composition which dominated the popular music scene when it appeared.

11 times, was the man insane?

[Emil Miller]

11 times, was the man insane?

Well he came from a very wealthy background, so he could afford the alimony.
Here's Sinatra in an updated oldie from the 1930s.

http://youtu.be/SXYvs2vIeaI

[LitNetIsGreat]

Well he came from a very wealthy background, so he could afford the alimony.
Here's Sinatra in an updated oldie from the 1930s.

http://youtu.be/SXYvs2vIeaI

Oh, I recognised that photo from watching this last night, Moonlight Serenade Sinatra version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLAMpZmi7Q&playnext=1&list=PL63B7ED65477580FE

[Emil Miller]

Oh, I recognised that photo from watching this last night, Moonlight Serenade Sinatra version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLAMpZmi7Q&playnext=1&list=PL63B7ED65477580FE

That's amazing, I was completely unaware that someone had put lyrics to it as it was originally written for Glen Miller's orchestra. The Sinatra picture is an iconic one from his hey day in the fifties and is often used on YouTube and elsewhere.

Here's another famous Glen Miller piece:

http://youtu.be/oUgh6ivoQYc

[LitNetIsGreat]

Oh yes, coincidentally I played that earlier as well.

Edit: Yes I quite like the Sinatra version and I'm not usually fussed about Sinatra.

[Emil Miller]

Oh yes, coincidentally I played that earlier as well.

Edit: Yes I quite like the Sinatra version and I'm not usually fussed about Sinatra.

Neither am I, but there is a difference between popular music and 'pop music', the latter being totally mass-produced by faceless money men without reference to either singing in tune or instrumental ability and sold simply on publicity and the manipulation of mass psychology.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Yes absolutely. It is clear that he can sing and that his voice has class and character above all the usual nonsense.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I discovered a very young Sinatra on the cover of sheet music for the song "And Then you Kissed Me" promoting the movie "Step Lively". I'll get a photo of it to share at some point.
I'm having trouble finding a recording of Sinatra singing it.

In the meantime, here's another from one of my favorites:
Note the use of strings.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOi5vtxCbA


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[LitNetIsGreat]

Good stuff, but I am totally addicted to Helen Forrest and Harry James and have played this more than 100 times in the last week at least (if not more like 200 times):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA2hk_CIZeo&feature=channel_video_title

I even dreamed about it last night. (I also played it to a group of students as a "reward" for good behaviour.:yesnod:)

OK, I'll go and see a specialist...but it is damn good indeed.

Go listen over and over again and be like me...or not.:smilewinkgrin:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...I even dreamed about it last night...
... OK, I'll go and see a specialist...but it is damn good indeed.

Go listen over and over again and be like me...or not

I listened and I dreamed just like before.
Helen was there once again serenading me in the light of the full "Strawberry" moon.
Then suddenly a slap (from the missus) and Helen vanished...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs

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[Emil Miller]

Here's a 16-year-old Jean Simmons in the 1945 film 'The Way to the Stars', one of the finest of all WW11 films and which was made in 1945.

http://youtu.be/NdipXd3pdOs

[stlukesguild]

Not to be mistaken for this Gene Simmons:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/5909374480_aa3cb5dcfe.jpg

Another undeniable "genius":rolleyes5:;)

[Emil Miller]

Not to be mistaken for this Gene Simmons:

Another undeniable "genius":rolleyes5:;)

I just checked him out on Wikie:

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Weitz; August 25, 1949) is a rock bassist, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and businessman.

Now why am I singularly unimpressed?

P.S. If selling crap to the masses is a legitimate business activity, then he does qualify for the final epithet.

[Emil Miller]

Had to put this one up.

http://youtu.be/26EVJzc0m8g

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Emil,

You'll appreciate this sheet music from 1944:



http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1868.jpg



and a recording:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0-wpeRsrA



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[Emil Miller]

Emil,

You'll appreciate this sheet music from 1944:



http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1868.jpg



and a recording:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0-wpeRsrA



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It's quite amazing how his voice and delivery changed following his initial decline as a proto pop singer to his return to public favour as an entertainer/ serious actor. After his famous recording with Billy May's orchestra of South of the Border/I've Got the World on a String for Capitol records and his role in From Here to Eternity, he never looked back.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I'm now spinning some vinyl and Martha Tilton in my dreams:

Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with Martha Tilton performing Bob White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ychfw5hOqdk

.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

.

"I Remember You"



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp55syGli9w




http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP1955.jpg


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[Gilliatt Gurgle]

The combination of Neely's recent posting of Miller and the Reminiscing past members thread, brought this old thread to mind.

Two more selections from the sheet music bin:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP2693.jpg



First we have Waring's Pennsylvanian's performing Sleep 1923

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6DEq0Gxrc


followed by Good Night Wherever You Are 1944
I couldn't find a Joan Brooks version, but Doris Day ain't bad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G2jea35ssA

Here's Joan singing Have You Got Any Castles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfryi6FdHc4&feature=related


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[Emil Miller]

The combination of Neely's recent posting of Miller and the Reminiscing past members thread, brought this old thread to mind.

Two more selections from the sheet music bin:


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP2693.jpg



First we have Waring's Pennsylvanian's performing Sleep 1923

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6DEq0Gxrc


followed by Good Night Wherever You Are 1944
I couldn't find a Joan Brooks version, but Doris Day ain't bad...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G2jea35ssA

Here's Joan singing Have You Got Any Castles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfryi6FdHc4&feature=related


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Well you sure have a lot of old sheet music, but to declare Doris Day to be not bad is like saying the Crown Jewels are cut glass, although I must admit that I didn't recognise her voice on that recording. This is more like her on a 1944 recording of a famous standard. Strictly for grown ups naturally.

http://youtu.be/PUw125JMVFI

[LitNetIsGreat]

Good stuff.

Back with Harry James and Co.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA2hk_CIZeo

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=JYvONFHI2xw

I've just ordered the CD.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ive-Heard-That-Song-Before/dp/tracks/B00005OLC4/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Good for you, at nearly 50 songs, you'll be entertained for some time.
I'll explore more on James' music. Helen Forrest is a dream and recorded with Artie Shaw as well.

I scanned through the list of recordings on the disk and noticed Sleepy Time Gal
She was a popular subject for airplane nose art during the War. Here's one example on the nose of a C-47 - a pic I found among my father's many wartime photos.

(click on image)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Family%20History/th_SleepyTimeGalonC-47.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Family%20History/?action=view&current=SleepyTimeGalonC-47.jpg)

That might be Doris^

and a recording of the same I found...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5asKVtJJ39w


Emil I figured my "ain't bad" would pull you out of the woodwork as I recall from the past, you're quite fond of Doris. What a voice and that blonde hair!

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[Emil Miller]

(click on image)



That might be Doris^

and a recording of the same I found...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5asKVtJJ39w


Emil I figured my "ain't bad" would pull you out of the woodwork as I recall from the past, you're quite fond of Doris. What a voice and that blonde hair!

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That's a surprising recording of H.James as it sounds much earlier than 1942 with more of a jazz influence than his later swing playing. Checking back on the origins of this thread I was also surprised to see that it was none other than Musicology who set it up; so his legacy lives on.
Who couldn't like Doris Day the all-American girl next door ?
I know this is outside the time limit but it's too magical to pass up. She's 88 now but when she eventually goes, the flags in America should be flown at half-mast.

http://youtu.be/ApNRGiqxjK0

[LostPrincess13]

Here's a 16-year-old Jean Simmons in the 1945 film 'The Way to the Stars', one of the finest of all WW11 films and which was made in 1945.

http://youtu.be/NdipXd3pdOs

I like this. It's very catchy. :)

[Emil Miller]

I like this. It's very catchy. :)

I thought it was an old English tune but in checking it out I see that it's actually Irish.

This was way before my time but when I saw a documentary on Jessie Matthews on TV some years ago I was hooked and started collecting her films. I've seen this one a half dozen times and it always delivers.

http://youtu.be/EueEOMjBkUA

[LitNetIsGreat]

Good for you, at nearly 50 songs, you'll be entertained for some time.
I'll explore more on James' music. Helen Forrest is a dream and recorded with Artie Shaw as well.

I scanned through the list of recordings on the disk and noticed Sleepy Time Gal
She was a popular subject for airplane nose art during the War. Here's one example on the nose of a C-47 - a pic I found among my father's many wartime photos.

(click on image)

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Family%20History/th_SleepyTimeGalonC-47.jpg (http://s963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Family%20History/?action=view&current=SleepyTimeGalonC-47.jpg)

That might be Doris^

and a recording of the same I found...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5asKVtJJ39w


Emil I figured my "ain't bad" would pull you out of the woodwork as I recall from the past, you're quite fond of Doris. What a voice and that blonde hair!

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Thanks for posting that I had no idea of it. Yes I am looking forward to the CD, I'll transfer the whole thing to my Ipod and then sit in the garden and listen to the whole thing with a glass of something nice.:)

[Emil Miller]

http://youtu.be/zNcPnEc99UE


It's very instructive to read the comments on videos. There are so many of this type on those showing real music by genuine musicians that it shows that the dumbed down referred to may not be as numerous as they think they are.


No one is ever too young to enjoy this music, because this IS the real stuff, so now you know what music sounds like, enjoy kids!!

joevet66 16 hours ago

Most of the crap today is totally forgettable by talent-less *** shakers with nothing but hype and the dumbed down behind them. No substance, nothing lasting.

Cole Porter and Artie Shaw. Couldn't get any better.

Thanks

-Bill

baghend 5 months ago in playlist 30's

[LitNetIsGreat]

Yes I like it, very mellow jazz sound. It even managed to quell some of my local library closure rage. I'm going to look into this Artie Shaw.

My Harry James came today and I have been playing the first CD.:smile5:

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Artie Shaw has been on the top of my list among the Big Band era musicians.
I believe you'll enjoy him.
A couple of favorites:

Artie's version of Begin the Beguine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps05TaQuYvc

and

Comes Love
Helen comes in about 1:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM


Ahh, so nice. Helen will now be in my dreams
Good night.
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[Emil Miller]

Artie Shaw was to the clarinet what Harry James was to the trumpet and when on a trip to Mexico he heard this tune he immediately saw it's potential and arranged it for his band. It was a massive success.

http://youtu.be/sMOHMYl5BCs

[MANICHAEAN]

“Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin” sung by Marlene Dietrich*

1
Wunderschön ist’s in Paris auf der Rue Madeleine
Schön ist es im Mai in Rom durch die Stadt zu gehn’n
Oder eine Sommernacht still beim Wein in Wien.
Doch ich häng', wenn ihr auch lacht, heut’ noch an Berlin:

Refrain:
Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin
Deswegen muss ich nächstens wieder hin.
Die Seligkeiten vergang’ner Zeiten
Sind alle noch in meinem kleinen Koffer drin.

Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin
Der bleibt auch dort, und das hat seinen Sinn.
Auf diese Weise lohnt sich die Reise,
Denn wenn ich Sehnsucht hab’ dann fahr’ ich wieder hin.

2
Lunapark und Wellenbad, kleiner Bär im Zoo,
Wannseebad mit Wasserrad, Tage hell und froh.
Werder, wenn die Bäume blühn’n, Park von Sanssouci.
Kinder, schön war doch Berlin. Ich vergess’ es nie:

Refrain: Ich hab...

[Emil Miller]

“Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin” sung by Marlene Dietrich*

1
Wunderschön ist’s in Paris auf der Rue Madeleine
Schön ist es im Mai in Rom durch die Stadt zu gehn’n
Oder eine Sommernacht still beim Wein in Wien.
Doch ich häng', wenn ihr auch lacht, heut’ noch an Berlin:

Refrain:
Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin
Deswegen muss ich nächstens wieder hin.
Die Seligkeiten vergang’ner Zeiten
Sind alle noch in meinem kleinen Koffer drin.

Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin
Der bleibt auch dort, und das hat seinen Sinn.
Auf diese Weise lohnt sich die Reise,
Denn wenn ich Sehnsucht hab’ dann fahr’ ich wieder hin.

2
Lunapark und Wellenbad, kleiner Bär im Zoo,
Wannseebad mit Wasserrad, Tage hell und froh.
Werder, wenn die Bäume blühn’n, Park von Sanssouci.
Kinder, schön war doch Berlin. Ich vergess’ es nie:

Refrain: Ich hab...

Yes this is typical German sentimetality which equates with Noel Coward's London Pride and J'ai Deux Amours

http://youtu.be/aTsIMVIWjlQ

http://youtu.be/EYRlLgDlvIA

[LitNetIsGreat]

I ordered this yesterday:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000017ED/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Helen Forrest. It's got Artie Shaw, Bennie Goodman and Harry James, looks good.

[Emil Miller]

I ordered this yesterday:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000017ED/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Helen Forrest. It's got Artie Shaw, Bennie Goodman and Harry James, looks good.


Someone I knew years ago had this 12" vinyl record. I think the cover was his main reason for buying it.

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2241/artieshawdidsomeonesaya.jpg

[LitNetIsGreat]

Ha, ha, the legs make up half of the cover.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I ordered this yesterday:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000017ED/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

Helen Forrest. It's got Artie Shaw, Bennie Goodman and Harry James, looks good.

This come today and I'm just listening to some of it - the Benny Goodman part at the moment (just paused Poirot for a bit). It's very relaxing stuff, highly enjoyable - dreamy!

[Emil Miller]

This come today and I'm just listening to some of it - the Benny Goodman part at the moment (just paused Poirot for a bit). It's very relaxing stuff, highly enjoyable - dreamy!

Judging by the reviews it certainly sounds the ticket but I'm surprised that you interrupted Poirot ( So you see Hastings mon ami.) Is he still on or were you watching a repeat ?

[LitNetIsGreat]

Judging by the reviews it certainly sounds the ticket but I'm surprised that you interrupted Poirot ( So you see Hastings mon ami.) Is he still on or were you watching a repeat ?

I only interrupted Poirot as Mrs N was washing the pots! We are watching repeats on ITV4 or Alibi channel on Sky, or some such channels, taping them and watching them every other night.

Here's one of the Artie Shaw tracks, Come Love, I think you or Mr GG posted it a bit back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM

Yes it's a good album collection.

[Emil Miller]

I only interrupted Poirot as Mrs N was washing the pots! We are watching repeats on ITV4 or Alibi channel on Sky, or some such channels, taping them and watching them every other night.

Here's one of the Artie Shaw tracks, Come Love, I think you or Mr GG posted it a bit back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM

Yes it's a good album collection.

I've got rid of my television but I did watch some of the Poirot series in the past.
They were too long to sustain interest and what gave the lie to their length was that some of the repeats that were put out later had half-an-hour taken out without making any difference to the story.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I've got rid of my television but I did watch some of the Poirot series in the past.
They were too long to sustain interest and what gave the lie to their length was that some of the repeats that were put out later had half-an-hour taken out without making any difference to the story.

Yes I think that the TV productions are hit and miss in places and some are better than others - the newer ones tend to be better, but they make for comfortable watching if you know what I mean, even the poorer ones. Some of them are also very loosely based on the novels, to the extreme that many of the plain stories have Miss Marple thrown in for the sake of it. Towards Zero is a very good AC novel and doesn't feature either Miss Marple or Poirot but has Marple added:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfobx2EuuI

A good Miss Marple to watch is the latest At Bertram's Hotel if you come across that one, it's very fast paced.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...Here's one of the Artie Shaw tracks, Come Love, I think you or Mr GG posted it a bit back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8JoCSoOcPM

Yes it's a good album collection.

It's likely I've posted that one sevral times. It is one of my all time favorites from this pair and if you're lucky, you won't hear Mrs. G's attempts at "Comes Love".

Here's a couple from a guy and his Cityslickers we heard quite often growing up. I have this album in vinyl btw-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs

and "My Old Flame"

Listen for the great Peter Lorre who comes in at about 1:30...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2A32KUTq0

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[Emil Miller]

Yes I think that the TV productions are hit and miss in places and some are better than others - the newer ones tend to be better, but they make for comfortable watching if you know what I mean, even the poorer ones. Some of them are also very loosely based on the novels, to the extreme that many of the plain stories have Miss Marple thrown in for the sake of it. Towards Zero is a very good AC novel and doesn't feature either Miss Marple or Poirot but has Marple added:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djfobx2EuuI

A good Miss Marple to watch is the latest At Bertram's Hotel if you come across that one, it's very fast paced.

They do allow for a certain relaxation as with anything that's not to be taken seriously and the period setting is also agreeable. I don't imagine the 1930s was anything like as comfortable as depicted but it's nice to think so.
The Marples are also quite good at a 1950s setting and I did see the Bertram's Hotel piece. The thing about AC is that she's often predictable and the plotlines
sometimes have holes in them. I only read her in German years ago simply because there were a number of translations in my public library and I was learning the language at the time. Easy reading in any language I should think but there was one short ghost story that was outstanding although I don't remember much about it.

[LitNetIsGreat]

It's likely I've posted that one sevral times. It is one of my all time favorites from this pair and if you're lucky, you won't hear Mrs. G's attempts at "Comes Love".

Here's a couple from a guy and his Cityslickers we heard quite often growing up. I have this album in vinyl btw-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRqWWRCT5Cs

and "My Old Flame"

Listen for the great Peter Lorre who comes in at about 1:30...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D2A32KUTq0

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Woo, they were a little strange, not what I expected.

Yes, I've just listened to the 'Come Love' pretty good. Mrs N sings all the time; I call it poison.


They do allow for a certain relaxation as with anything that's not to be taken seriously and the period setting is also agreeable. I don't imagine the 1930s was anything like as comfortable as depicted but it's nice to think so.
The Marples are also quite good at a 1950s setting and I did see the Bertram's Hotel piece. The thing about AC is that she's often predictable and the plotlines
sometimes have holes in them. I only read her in German years ago simply because there were a number of translations in my public library and I was learning the language at the time. Easy reading in any language I should think but there was one short ghost story that was outstanding although I don't remember much about it.

Yes I was also going to comment about the period too, I totally agree. We watched Mysterious Affair at Styles the other day and the setting is just fantastic - this is earlier set during WW1 (first Poirot I think) but the period atmosphere is very refreshing. The whole thing in full is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEcuyhAE8A

Take a look at Styles House and grounds at and around 5-8 mins. No Nesbits at all!

I like the Benny Goodman and Helen Forrest version of Bewitched, that was a bonus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_4FUc_0Cd8

[Emil Miller]

Yes I was also going to comment about the period too, I totally agree. We watched Mysterious Affair at Styles the other day and the setting is just fantastic - this is earlier set during WW1 (first Poirot I think) but the period atmosphere is very refreshing. The whole thing in full is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dEcuyhAE8A

Take a look at Styles House and grounds at and around 5-8 mins. No Nesbits at all!

I like the Benny Goodman and Helen Forrest version of Bewitched, that was a bonus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_4FUc_0Cd8


Yes I will give the Styles Mystery a viewing. The thing that spoils such efforts is that everything looks like it has just arrived from the costumiers without a blemish. But that is the difference between serious filming and that produced for an audience who, as you say, are not looking for anything other than comfortable watching.

To keep this thread on subject, here's one of my favourites from way back when.

http://youtu.be/xtEZB0VoOuA

[LitNetIsGreat]

To keep this thread on subject, here's one of my favourites from way back when.

http://youtu.be/xtEZB0VoOuA

Yes I like that and having read one of the comments it brought to my attention something I never thought about - the playing times!


Very nice!

I'm wondering--how was a 4:33 recording made and reproduced in 1928?

This is silly of me but I never considered the physical barrier of the record size upon the track length. I read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record#78_rpm_disc_size

[Emil Miller]

Yes I like that and having read one of the comments it brought to my attention something I never thought about - the playing times!

?

This is silly of me but I never considered the physical barrier of the record size upon the track length. I read about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record#78_rpm_disc_size

There's nothing silly about it: I doubt that 99.9% of listeners have ever thought to connect the two. The article was very instructive about recording sound and especially the fact that a number of people prefer vinyl to CDs.
For my money, vinyl is superior to CD and I have a number of simultaneous recordings in both mediums to prove it. My dream was always to have had a home well away from neighbours so that I could play music on an amplifier, tuner and turntable for vinyl discs . It costs a lot of money but, once heard, nothing matches let alone surpasses it.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Oh good, it's not just me being dim then. Yes I have also heard that vinyl is becoming more and more popular in place of CDs and I'm sure you are right about the quality. Mrs N doesn't like CDs either.

Just got home after the first week of work:bawling: and put my feet up to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs

[Emil Miller]

Oh good, it's not just me being dim then. Yes I have also heard that vinyl is becoming more and more popular in place of CDs and I'm sure you are right about the quality. Mrs N doesn't like CDs either.

Just got home after the first week of work:bawling: and put my feet up to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs

I don't think that vinyl will replace modern recording techniques but, for purists, there is still a market for it. I've had this discussion before on the forum and what I'm suggesting is that physical contact with vinyl as opposed to laser nonphysical contact, means that certain electronic signals are not picked up to the same degree and the music sounds correspondingly bland. As someone who initially welcomed CDs for their convenience if nothing else, I was surprised to find that CDs of vinyl recordings that I already had were lacking in their reproductive capacity.That being said, it's better to have CDs that have been recorded only in that format than not to have them at all.

Are the kids back at school already? I was wondering about that today.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Yes, a week of pain. On Monday I felt like someone had died.

[Emil Miller]

Yes, a week of pain. On Monday I felt like someone had died.

I don't know how you put up with it, I think I'd rather work in a zoo.
Anyway here's another track that just meets the timeline criterion.

http://youtu.be/3QSFozXJM8Y

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Sorry fellas for being absent. I have some catching up to do.
If I’m getting Neely’s drift, then I too was suffering the same workload blight.

Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.

Okay- Red Nichols is a new one on me, but after reading up on him, I see he was no stranger to the music scene of the time and collaborated with many of the jazz and big band greats.

“I’m as restless as willow in a windstorm”
oh Doris darling, if only you were here with me now, I would make the spring last a lifetime, if only for you...snap out of it.

Speaking of vinyl, you forced me to pull out the old Readers Digest "Great Band Era" box set. a collection of 10 LP's covering the range of music from 1936 to 1945


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP2733.jpg



At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaYsnmzmk&playnext=1&list=PLC4AD0D3EFC1323F5&feature=results_main



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[Emil Miller]

Sorry fellas for being absent. I have some catching up to do.
If I’m getting Neely’s drift, then I too was suffering the same workload blight.

Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.

Okay- Red Nichols is a new one on me, but after reading up on him, I see he was no stranger to the music scene of the time and collaborated with many of the jazz and big band greats.

“I’m as restless as willow in a windstorm”
oh Doris darling, if only you were here with me now, I would make the spring last a lifetime, if only for you...snap out of it.

Speaking of vinyl, you forced me to pull out the old Readers Digest "Great Band Era" box set. a collection of 10 LP's covering the range of music from 1936 to 1945


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae114/tabuka1/Misc%20Album/IMGP2733.jpg



At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaYsnmzmk&playnext=1&list=PLC4AD0D3EFC1323F5&feature=results_main



.

You see Gilliatte, that's where keeping the old stuff scores because you have instant access to things that might not be available on Youtube or elsewhere. Actually, watching the pictures that accompany the tune recalls an incident when I was living in Nuremberg. Sometimes I used to go to a restaurant at the end of my road and, one night as I was leaving, a middle aged waitress who worked there followed me out onto the pavement and took my hand. She asked me if I was American and I told her I was English. Then she said that I was the image of an American soldier that she had known at the war's end. I was rather embarrassed and said that I had to leave and I left her standing on the pavement. I imagine that it was but one example of a romantic attachment that was formed between what had formerly been implacable enemies.
What made me think about the situation was that my landlady told me that six unarmed SS soldiers had been shot and killed by American troops against a wall opposite where I was living.

C'est la guerre.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Anyway here's another track that just meets the timeline criterion.

http://youtu.be/3QSFozXJM8Y

An angel surely, brilliant.


Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.

If there is a heaven then that would be it, fantastic, oh god!



At the moment I’m listening to the second album that includes “It’s Been a Long Long Time” performed by Charlie Spivak and his orchestra featuring Irene Daye on vocals. The following may be a multivideo playlist, but the first video should be the one we’re interested in.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBaY...e=results_main

Thanks for that, I like that version.

OK, this one is a little bit out of the time frame, but I have been humming this song a little this week. It was one of my grandad's favourite songs - Nat King Cole:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-A_qTAKEI

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...If there is a heaven then that would be it, fantastic, oh god!...

...OK, this one is a little bit out of the time frame, but I have been humming this song a little this week. It was one of my grandad's favourite songs - Nat King Cole:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-A_qTAKEI

Boy, that does paint a nice picture of heaven.
After listening to the great Nat King Cole, I began to consider other great black artists within the time frame, one of whom I would love to have turning my page.

Here's Lena Horne with "Stormy Weather"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCG3kJtQBKo

and someone I just discovered when pulling up Lena.
Fats Waller

"Your Feets Too Big"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK3x1PBI&feature=related

[Emil Miller]

Emil will scoff at my blight and suggest I throw caution to the wind and take up residence somewhere along the Mediterranean to bask in the sun with a bronzed beauty at each shoulder; one to turn my page and the other to tip the carafe.







If there is a heaven then that would be it, fantastic, oh god!




I think your wives may have something to say about it though.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

In my case, she's grown accustomed to my nostalgic fantasies.
Now if I were to walk in the door with Doris, Helen and Lena inflatables she might raise any eyebrow.

In the meantime, I can't get enough of Fats Waller.

"Ain't Misbehavin"
His facial expressions at the start of this video are hillarious...


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

[Emil Miller]

Ah! Those WERE the days.


http://youtu.be/10yscQRNwaE

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Ah! Those WERE the days.


Yes they were Emil and today (Jan 30th) we mark the passing of another from that Greatest Generation of entertainers.
I learned of Patty Andrews death today at 94

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/arts/music/patty-andrews-singer-with-the-andrews-sisters-dies-at-94.html

Perhaps the most recognized song they performed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafnJ6mRbgk

Patty is typically seen in the center whenever they are together. ^Here she's the one who steps out for the solo part

Here they're singing one of my all time favorites made popular by Glenn Miller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdrYYUuT07Q

[Calidore]

[QUOTE=Gilliatt Gurgle;1201468]I learned of Patty Andrews death today at 94

Drat, beat me to it. I'll offer up a teaming with Danny Kaye, used recently as one of the songs served up by the Fallout 3 in-game radio station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyDNTLlRgU

[Emil Miller]

Yes they were Emil and today (Jan 30th) we mark the passing of another from that Greatest Generation of entertainers.
I learned of Patty Andrews death today at 94.



That's quite an advanced age but it's always sad to see them go. I imagine there will be quite a few old timers dusting off their discs in remembrance.


[QUOTE=Gilliatt Gurgle;1201468]I learned of Patty Andrews death today at 94

Drat, beat me to it. I'll offer up a teaming with Danny Kaye, used recently as one of the songs served up by the Fallout 3 in-game radio station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyDNTLlRgU

I was actually singing this a couple of weeks ago but I didn't know until now that Danny Kaye was the male vocalist .

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

How about some Bob Wills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk99I0YYn0M