Popular Songs (1920-1945)

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

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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

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

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

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.

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...radio_station/

etc.

Not forgetting -

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

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

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Originally Posted by Brian Bean

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.

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

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

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Originally Posted by 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...radio_station/

etc.

Not forgetting -

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

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

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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

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

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

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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/a...tcardfront.jpg


Back
http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...m1/Paris02.jpg


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

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/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

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

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/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

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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."

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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."

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

Gilliatt

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 :)

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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 :)

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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

A couple from the Coon Creek Girls:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwd3S...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Q_s...eature=related

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See kiddiewinkies, this is how it's done.


http://youtu.be/nKgUq5dziEk

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

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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/a...m/IMGP1623.jpg



Here's a recording I found on Youtube:

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


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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"


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