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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Dec 7, 2023 17:33:29 GMT
The decade that saw jazz music really come of age, with the hot jazz of the late 1920s being joined by the smoother and softer big band sound as well as the fuller theatre show-style arrangements. Let's start at the beginning, though, with a rip-snorting arrangement of Happy Days Are Here Again (this version possibly being my favourite song ever) recorded I believe in the early days of January 1930.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2023 18:59:00 GMT
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Dec 9, 2023 12:07:22 GMT
Great choices, Wicca! Annette Henshaw, one of the best voices of the 1930s. And I hadn't seen that particular colourised footage before. Here's some more by way of reply  : Something a little slower and more reflective now, from British bandleader Jack Harris and his Grosvenor House Band, A Faded Summer Love. Recorded in January 1932. |
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Dec 11, 2023 12:38:31 GMT
To America now and this May 1932 recording of Goin' To Town by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2023 22:44:58 GMT
^^^Oh that is such good music!  |
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Dec 19, 2023 11:12:58 GMT
One of the greatest crooners of the thirties, the incomparable Al Bowlly sings his version of Let Yourself Go from the 1936 musical film Follow The Fleet with Ray Noble and his Orchestra.
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Post by Freddie Devere on Jan 6, 2024 21:13:35 GMT
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Jan 7, 2024 18:02:18 GMT
Ah, the incomparable Cab Calloway! Could there be a better example of the style and exuberance of Thirties America?  I imagine you will have seen the brilliant dance routine (regularly voted one of the top 10 in the history of cinema and rightly so) featuring the fantastic Nicholas Brothers, which he was a party to? It bears re-watching, in any event! |
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Post by Freddie Devere on Jan 7, 2024 20:36:11 GMT
Ah, the incomparable Cab Calloway! Could there be a better example of the style and exuberance of Thirties America? I imagine you will have seen the brilliant dance routine (regularly voted one of the top 10 in the history of cinema and rightly so) featuring the fantastic Nicholas Brothers, which he was a party to? It bears re-watching, in any event! Oh, but of course! Even the grand-children are acquainted with, and thoroughly facinated by, the breath-taking talent of the Nicholas Brothers.
Simply astounding!
Thank you for sharing. |
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Jan 8, 2024 19:56:15 GMT
Ah, the incomparable Cab Calloway! Could there be a better example of the style and exuberance of Thirties America? I imagine you will have seen the brilliant dance routine (regularly voted one of the top 10 in the history of cinema and rightly so) featuring the fantastic Nicholas Brothers, which he was a party to? It bears re-watching, in any event! Oh, but of course! Even the grand-children are acquainted with, and thoroughly facinated by, the breath-taking talent of the Nicholas Brothers.
Simply astounding!
Thank you for sharing. I'm pleased to hear it, Freddie! Anything that promulgates the wondrous Nicholas Brothers (and Mr Calloway) is welcome. |
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Jan 9, 2024 17:52:24 GMT
Making it a double-bill of Mr Calloway Little Town Girl is a great, perhaps lesser-known song from the great man, which I especially enjoy for the brilliant line:
#Little Town Girl/
Don't you go to the city/
Buildings so tall/
And the folks got no pity#
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Post by Freddie Devere on Jan 10, 2024 21:55:04 GMT
Cab's so cool, the man deserves a triple billing, methinks.  A little later on in time, I present to you...Calloway's Boogie!
Edit : Please do excuse the above footage being rather out of place in time here (1950s as opposed to 1930s). But I just couldn't help myself!
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Jan 11, 2024 13:58:16 GMT
Cab's so cool, the man deserves a triple billing, methinks. A little later on in time, I present to you...Calloway's Boogie!
Edit : Please do excuse the above footage being rather out of place in time here (1950s as opposed to 1930s). But I just couldn't help myself!
Quite understandable, Freddie old thing! It was my intention to start a 1950s music board at some point but if you feel like creating one yourself please do.  In the meantime, this thread has inspired me to revisit my Cab Calloway collection and it seems only right to make this into a medley before I move on to something else, so here are two more favourites of mine to finish off with. First we are invited to join a Harlem Camp Meeting, recorded on the 2nd November 1933 and featuring some top-hole clarinet playing (by a sadly unidentified band member) and some excellent scatting by the man himself: Whilst arguably nothing can touch Benny Goodman's recording of Moonglow, for my money Mr Calloway's version from the 22nd January 1934 runs it very close: |
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Post by Freddie Devere on Jan 16, 2024 9:30:03 GMT
And now for something a little different... ' Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End of London and on Broadway in New York.' The first album I ever bought was: 'Gertrude Lawrence - The Star Herself.' This is a favourite track of mine from that album:
It never fails to bring a smile to my face
Here's a rare piece of footage of the star herself from 1931, courtesy of British Pathé :
Note: The location of the events in this film are unknown.
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I imagine you will have seen the brilliant dance routine (regularly voted one of the top 10 in the history of cinema and rightly so) featuring the fantastic Nicholas Brothers, which he was a party to? It bears re-watching, in any event! 
