What are you listening to?

[cufflinkmaniac]

The Danish royal anthem.

 

[Shangas]

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Minnie the Moocher".

 

[tuppence]

Alien *** Fiend

 

[lolly_loisides]

A friend gave me a compilation CD & it has the theme song to "Man About the House", I'm listening to that right now.
Some friend!

 

[THe Conductor]

Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra

 

[Shangas]

I'm listening to my (incredibly huge) Fats Waller collection.

Currently...

Fats Waller and His Rhythm - "Yacht-Club Swing" (Rec. 1938)

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Lyrics For Lovers"

"British Actor, Dirk Bogarde Talks his way through several standards from the 30's"
1. Foggy Day
2. Way You Look Tonight
3. Our Love Affair
4. You Go to My Head
5. Can't We Be Friends
6. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
7. Just One of Those Things
8. Get Out of Town
9. I Get Along Without You Very Well
10. These Foolish Things
11. Where or When
12. As Time Goes By

 

[Shangas]

Al Jolson - "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"

 

[Fletch]

Out of the Dawn, Paul Ash & Orchestra, 1928.
Paul, a German immigrant (born Aschenbrenner), was a popular Chicago show-band leader, and this particular side is positively Whitemanesque in its sound and scoring.

Paul recorded again in '33 with an even better band, which he led at the Century of Progress' Pabst Casino, but those sides are hopelessly rare. Ben Bernie took over the music at the Casino, and I think they might have been pulled off the market.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Out of the Dawn, Paul Ash & Orchestra, 1928.
Paul, a German immigrant (born Aschenbrenner, IIRC), was a popular Chicago show-band leader, and this particular side is positively Whitemanesque in its sound and scoring.

Ash was legendary for his revue/prologue shows at the McVicker Theatre in Chicago -- very much the sort of stuff that James Cagney was supposed to be putting on in "Footlight Parade."

Two of those revues, "Red Hot" and "Paul Ash In Hollywood" were written for him by a ham-and-egg radio harmony act named Correll and Gosden -- who within four years would be the two most famous voices in America, though not because they worked for Ash...

 

[cufflinkmaniac]

Love that one! Right now- Horowitz playing Schubert's Military March.

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra - "Minnie the Moocher".

 

[lolly_loisides]

Triple J's hottest 100. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/countdown/

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Triple J's hottest 100. http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/countdown/

"I'm also listening with my "Posse " "Go Wolfe Mother and Hilltops" mmm maybe I need a Hoody and a wig and some ink, Gnome sane?"

 

[Shangas]

Thanks CLM, it's one of my favourite songs

Now for something a little more cheery...

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - "Tijuana Taxi"

 

[lolly_loisides]

You are a funny fellow Mr Baumont.

 

[Jack R.]

Lazy River-Bobby Darin

 

[Shangas]

Cast of 'Cabaret' - "Willkommen!" ("Welcome!")

One of the greatest opening songs ever...

 

[Lillemor]

Lazy River-Bobby Darin

lol I've listened to that one at least once a day for the past 14 days, today included.

after Lazy River - Bobby Darin and a few more of his songs...

Halo and Haunted - Gary Numan

I feel like listening to some rare (including So Rare) songs by Bobby Rydell and Dion Dimucci until I have to start dinner.

 

[John in Covina]

Cast of 'Cabaret' - "Willkommen!" ("Welcome!") One of the greatest opening songs ever...

[EMCEE]
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!
Fremde, etranger, stranger.
Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,
Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret

 

[Fletch]

Paul Ash Update

The Pabst Casino band recordings are online here.

Here is the story of Ruth Terry, who appeared with Ash as a child star at the Casino and later became a "B" movie favorite.