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Post by david on Jun 2, 2010 17:12:58 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 2, 2010 19:11:27 GMT -5
September 2, 1950
Not on YouTube: The Andrews Sisters - Can't We Talk It Over? Nat King Cole - Home (When Shadows Fall) Eddy Howard - Daddy's Little Boy Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Our Little Ranch House Dick Todd - Daddy's Little Boy Margaret Whiting - Friendly Star
#1 this week: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - Goodnight Irene
Pick of the week: Who knows?
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Post by david on Jun 2, 2010 19:22:40 GMT -5
September 9, 1950 US Edith Piaf - La Vie en rose www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxByDgpLmsswww.youtube.com/watch?v=imSBNeIo3rcAudio only: Perry Como - If You Were My Girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=zel4ezseG2wNot on YouTube: Vic Damone - Cincinnati Dancing Pig Red Foley - Cincinnati Dancing Pig Sammy Kaye and His Swing and Sway Orchestra - The Object of My Affection #1 this week: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - Goodnight Irene Pick of the week: La Vie en rose, of course. That Perry Como tune isn't bad, but Edith Piaf's signature song is one of my absolute all-time faves.
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Post by david on Jun 3, 2010 8:14:17 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 3, 2010 21:58:59 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jun 3, 2010 23:51:10 GMT -5
Know your stars. Frankie LaineOften billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Mr. Steel Tonsils. Music historian Jonny Whiteside wrote: In the Hollywood clubs, a new breed of black-influenced white performers laid down a baffling hip array of new sounds ... Most important of all these, though, was Frankie Laine, a big white lad with 'steel tonsils' who belted out torch blues while stomping his size twelve foot in joints like Billy Berg's, Club Hangover and the Bandbox. ... Laine's intense vocal style owed nothing to Crosby, Sinatra or Dick Haymes. Instead he drew from Billy Eckstine, Joe Turner, Jimmy Rushing, and with it Laine had sown the seeds from which an entire new perception and audience would grow. ... Frank Sinatra represented perhaps the highest flowering of a quarter century tradition of crooning but suddenly found himself an anachronism. First Frankie Laine, then Tony Bennett, and now Johnnie (Ray), dubbed 'the Belters' and 'the Exciters,' came along with a brash vibrancy and vulgar beat that made the old bandstand routine which Frank meticulously perfected seem almost invalid.Frankie's wiki page adds: Along with opening the door for many R&B performers, Laine played a significant role in the civil rights movements of the 1950s and '60s. When Nat King Cole's television show was unable to get a sponsor, Laine crossed the color line, becoming the first white artist to appear as a guest (forgoing his usual salary of $10,000.00 as Cole's show only paid scale). Many other top white singers followed suit, including Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, but Cole's show still couldn't get enough sponsors to continue. In the following decade, Frankie Laine joined several African American artists who gave a free concert for Martin Luther King's supporters during their Selma to Montgomery marches on Washington DC.[28] Laine, who had a strong appreciation of African-American music, went so far as to record at least two songs that have being black as their subject matter, "Shine" and Fats Waller's "Black and Blue". Both were recorded early in his career at Mercury, and helped to contribute to the initial confusion among fans about his race.Sounds like a badass to me. Ozzie Nelson's original 1931 version of 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' is pretty good. Old Ozzie might have been a badass in his own way back in the day.
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Post by david on Jun 4, 2010 8:55:20 GMT -5
The befuddled dad of Ozzie and Harriet never had anything much to do with the real Ozzie Nelson, Ivy League quarterback and law school student, big band leader and composer, and sharp multi-millionaire businessman. But that's showbiz . . . September 30, 1950 Not on YouTube: Bing Crosby - All My Love (Bolero) Bill Snyder and His orchestra - My Silent Love #1 this week: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - Goodnight Irene Pick of the week: Pass Some versions of My Silent Love: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgsaWCEyKYIwww.youtube.com/watch?v=hnmJQ44ruB4www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8XNHbdoT-w
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Post by david on Jun 4, 2010 9:02:29 GMT -5
October 7, 1950 US Nat King Cole and Stan Kenton - Orange Colored Sky www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdi97HHYJewAudio only: Don Cherry - Thinking of You www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAlGgT_Z5kANot on YouTube: Eddie Fisher - Thinking of You Peter Hanley with Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra - Foggy River Sarah Vaughan - (I Love the Girl) I Love the Guy #1 this week: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - Goodnight Irene Pick of the week: Orange Colored Sky
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Post by david on Jun 4, 2010 17:00:44 GMT -5
October 14, 1950 US Audio only: Perry Como - Patricia www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UC8OyHmOFQNot on YouTube: Alan Dale - you, Wonderful You Guy Lombardo and His royal Canadians - The Petite Waltz (La Petite valse) Art Lund - You, Wonderful You The Three Suns with Larry Green and His Orchestra - The Petite Waltz (La Petite valse) Sarah Vaughan - Our Very Own #1 this week: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - Goodnight Irene Pick of the week: Patricia Original version of Our Very Own (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOE9u49LbBoHere's a different version of The Petite Waltz, which owes a little something to The Third Man Theme (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnJ9wwErqbU
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Post by david on Jun 4, 2010 19:36:42 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 5, 2010 9:38:07 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 5, 2010 22:07:53 GMT -5
November 11, 1950 Not on YouTube: Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Lullaby in Boogie Harry James and His Orchestra - Lullaby in Boogie Lorry Raine - Strangers Hugo Winterhalter - Mr. Touchdown, USA #1 this week: Sammy Kaye and His Swing and Sway Orchestra - Harbor Lights Pick of the week: Pass Another version of Mr. Touchdown, USA (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSHi-TsJrI
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Post by david on Jun 5, 2010 22:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Jun 6, 2010 5:07:14 GMT -5
"Bing Crosby - A Marshmallow World"
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Post by david on Jun 6, 2010 9:15:08 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 6, 2010 15:57:43 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 6, 2010 20:02:33 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jun 7, 2010 0:28:21 GMT -5
Know your stars: Spike JonesBorn Lindley Armsrong Jones, young Lindley got his nickname by being so thin that he was compared to a railroad spike.Fun facts from wiki: Spike's parody of Vaughn Monroe's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" was performed as if sung by a drunkard and ridiculed Monroe by name in its final stanza: CHORUS: 'Cause all we hear is "Ghost Riders" sung by Vaughn Monroe DRUNK: I can do without his singing. FRIEND: But I wish I had his dough! The original version was pressed for the European market in 1949. Furthermore, a few pressings containing the first ending were mistakenly pressed on the West Coast and are a prized rarity. The official (and more common) American release used an alternative take, minus the dig at Monroe, because Monroe, an RCA recording artist and also a major RCA stockholder, demanded it.The rise of rock-'n'-roll and the decline of big bands hurt Spike Jones's repertoire. The new rock songs were already novelties, and Jones could not decimate them the way he had lampooned "Cocktails for Two" or "Laura." He played rock-'n'-roll for laughs when he presented "for the first time on television, the bottom half of Elvis Presley!" This was the cue for a pair of pants -- inhabited by dwarf actor Billy Barty -- to scamper across the stage.
Jones was a lifelong smoker. He was once said to have gotten through the average workday on coffee and cigarettes. Smoking may have contributed to his developing emphysema. His already thin frame deteriorated, to the point where he used an oxygen tank offstage, and onstage he was confined to a seat behind his drum set. He died in 1965 at the age of 53, and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
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Post by cripes on Jun 7, 2010 0:39:20 GMT -5
Extra stuff!! Spike Jones had Doodles Weaver in his band. I can't resist this. Sigourney called him 'Uncle'. After Weaver signed on in 1946 as a member of Spike Jones' City Slickers band, he was heard on Jones' 1947-49 radio shows. He toured the country with the Spike Jones Music Depreciation Revue until 1951. The radio programs were often broadcast from cities where the Revue was staged
He portrayed eccentric characters in guest appearances on such TV shows as Batman (where he played The Archer's henchman Crier Tuck), Land of the Giants, Dragnet 1967 and The Monkees. He appeared in more than 90 films, including The Great Imposter (1961), Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (as the man helping the Tippi Hedren character with her rental boat), Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor (1963) and a cameo in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). His last movie was Under the Rainbow (1981).
Weaver committed suicide at age 71 on January 17, 1983. Rudy Vallee delivered the eulogy at his funeral.
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