What 20's, 30's, 40's Song Are You Listening To Now (lyric, album)

[soupson1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riL4thgrfwY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTDo08giGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IPazVoaks

Disappeared December 15th 1944. RIP

[Thomas R.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctCe7hmuJi0 - Christmassy.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWUF3LYd88 - Early calypso, the more famous version by The Andrew Sisters cuts out any Anti-American subtext.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZe-UOUxa14 - For some 1920s stuff.

[jtur88]

Two of my favorites from my childhood:

"There are Such Things". Frank Sintra

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



"Oh What it Seemed to Be"---Frankie Carle orchestra

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

[Lakewooder]

Speaking of Frankie -this is a holiday gem:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75wC0Y-VM9Q

[jtur88]

This one has a special place in my heart, by a band leader who came from my home town---Bunny
Berigan

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

There are always a few novelty songs going around. Here are a couple from the late 40s that I remember.

Carson Robison, "Life Gets Tee-jus"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9K6s9AmYXo


The Three Flames, "Open the Door Richard"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeJHf05q-s

[Thomas R.]

Apologies if any of these have been done.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo


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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAM_pOuFm9g

[jazzlover]

Ah, "I Can't Get Started"--one of the great jazz ballads. There is a word that you don't see much anymore with regard to music: "continuum." How much of today's music will be being played by anyone 70 years from now? Not very damned much--it's not good enough. But tunes like "I Can't Get Started"--itself over 70 years old--from the Great American Songbook are still being played and interpreted today and probably will be another 70 years from now. That's "continuum."

Here is an example, a Duke Ellington tune, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," sung in the 1940's by Lina Romay.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1q7osopZo

And, then a video from a few years ago of the same tune performed by Canadian pianist/singer Carol Welsman.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGYWrC2YFQ

Two talented and sexy ladies singing the same tune over a half-century apart.

[TonyT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAES7BhzSDg

[Thomas R.]

I use the search function before posting, but still I may have repeated some. If so apologies, etc.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5TGHuvX68 - Later revived by Elvis.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbHs1EgFN5c - May predate the 1920s.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK-0gcn9b4c - Several versions exist, this isn't the earliest but among the earlier.

[strudel42]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQwCi8f3iuk