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A short thread on popular songs of the period 1920 to around 1945.
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Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
'The Sun Has Got Its Hat On' (1932)
Ambrose Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDIpkz6DOi8
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Ralph Butler and Noel Gay
'Run, Rabbit Run !' (1941)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdoZNxtL8k
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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=2ylR4...eature=related
Glenn Miller
"Moonlight Serenade"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBvk...eature=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=5IXmP...rom=PL&index=5
Hi there Gilliat Gurgle. Some really nice things you've posted here !
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.
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!
How about Edith Piaf?
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George Gershwin
'I Got Plenty of Nothing'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZuwxT2omw
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George Gershwin
Someone to watch over Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2bh1bQSfE&feature=fvw
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Noel Gay
'Letting in the Sunshine' (1933)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylgyRylajS4
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Noel Gay
'Lambeth Walk'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9pnzYzvBI
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Don't forget Bing Crosby
Swinging on a star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATft...eature=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.
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
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Five Variants on An Old English Theme (1938) 'Dives and Lazarus'
For Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4bx...eature=related
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Puccini
Aria from Opera 'Turandot'
'Nessun Dorma'
Soloist - Jussi Bjorling (Tenor)
Danish Radio Broadcast (Copenhagen) March 1944
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPEG9...eature=related
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Walt Disney
'Little Toot' (1948)
Andrews Sisters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUJLlXTh74
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Eddy Duchin/Carmen Cavellero
'Lovely to Look At' (1935)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sPb7HOwuHE
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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=wPEG9...eature=related
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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/a...TimeGoesBy.jpg
A look inside:
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...esBy-music.jpg
Gilliatt
Yes Brian,
To me, Bjorling is the equivalent of the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti. His recordings are amazing. And too few.
[QUOTE=Brian Bean;844314]Very nice, Gilliat Gurgle !Quote:
Originally Posted by Musicology
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Originally Posted by 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/a...a/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/a...a/IMG_1411.jpg
as recorded by “The Four Vagabonds”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjcVZ...eature=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=WWJTk...eature=related
Gilliatt
Ronald Regan doesn't look that different does he?