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asv various 1929 - 1930
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS / BEAT THE BAND TO THE BAR (A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN DANCE BAND FUN) (5599) |
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Living Era nor any other label has ever issued a dance band record like Beat The Band To The Bar. 22 bands from Charlie Barnet to Rudy Vallee are heard letting their collective hair down and playing often satirical comic numbers. It's a riot! The centrepiece is Richard Himber's frequently requested Parade Of Bands, in which his band brilliantly impersonates a dozen other bands' styles and idiosyncracies (a great music quiz - answers in the booklet). The roster of bands is remarkable, including those of Glenn Miller, the Dorsey Brothers, Woody Herman, Louis Prima, Kay Kyser and Pete Rugolo.
[Item Code: 58170 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / HILLBILLY BLUES (5361) |
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25 country classics from 1929-47, feat. the Allen Bros., Ashley & Foster, Bill Carlisle, Carter Family, Delmore Bros., Lone Star Cowboys, Delmore Bros., Buddy Jones, Norman Phelps, Dick Justice, Jimmie Rodgers & many more
[Item Code: 30610 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / JUST A BIT OF FUN - GEMS OF BRITISH COMEDY (5547) |
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Just A Bit Of Fun is exactly that: 22 more prime examples of warm-hearted, gentle comedy that have kept the British chuckling from 1929 to 1953. Simply reading the featured names will bring a happy glow of expectant pleasure: Robb Wilton, Arthur Askey, Frankie Howerd, Max Miller, Peter Ustinov and so many more. The huge range spans from Leslie Sarony's farmyard grunting on The Old Sow to the infectious laughter of Joyce Grenfell and Norman Wisdom in Narcissus.
[Item Code: 55993 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / LISTEN TO THE BANNED (5030) |
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songs censored from 1930's radio
[Item Code: 6885 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / O BROTHERS! (5467) |
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Compilation contains 27 original mono recordings from 1929-51 and features The Anglin Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, Stanley Brothers, Carlisle Brothers, Carter Family, Coon Creek Girls, Delmore Brothers, Dixon Brothers, Louvin Brothers, Maddox Brothers, Monroe Brothers and others.
[Item Code: 37935 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / SINGING COWBOYS IN THE MOVIES (5338) |
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Compilation features the best-loved cowboys of the silver screen who sang their way across the West. Includes songs by Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Johnny Bond, Smiley Burnette, Spade Cooley, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Tex Williams, Bob Willis & others.
[Item Code: 31691 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE SONGS OF ARTHUR SCHWARTZ (5301) |
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The claim that Arthur Schwarts had a special way with a song may seem at first a glib statement of the obvious, but his songs are always individually melodic and harmonically interesting, and among twentieth century songwriter-performers, witness his various attempts, including Louisiana Hayride and the medley commencing with Love Is A Dancing Thing, he displays a certain knack, that vocal 'twinkling of he eye' which superimposes the performer's perspective. True, when it cam to mixing metaphors and mingling Tin Pan Alley Moonlight with minor keys, Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern were already the undisputed helmsmen of a much longer line and by the time we arrive at Arthur "That's Entertainment" Schwartz's the medium has somehow altered, become more tongue-in-cheek, more selfdebunking.
[Item Code: 29015 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE SONGS OF RALPH RAINGER (5398) |
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Although the name of Ralph Rainger may not have stood the test of time like, say, those of Berlin, Gershwin or Porter, chances are that thousands will be familiar with the Academy Awards-winning Thanks For The Memory and also with many a Crosby number without realising that these were the work of pianist, composer-arranger and former lawyer Ralph Rainger. During the mid- 1920s Ralph became a professional pianist. A brilliant sight-reader, a fine technician and all-round improviser, he worked in dance and jazz ensembles as well as Broadway theatre ochestras and with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and was also for a time accompanist to the American dancer and singing actor Clifton Webb.
[Item Code: 32505 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / THE SONGS OF SIGMUND ROMBERG (5642) |
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One of the most valuable and successful sections of the Living Era catalogue is the wonderful Songs Of series, demonstrating the achievements of the great songwriters of the first half of the 20th century. So far there have been an extraordinary 23 releases covering such familiar names as Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Kern and Rodgers, as well as lesser-known figures like Ahlert, Schwartz, Rainger and Woods. Number 24 is among the best, spotlighting the immortal songs of Hungarian-born American composer Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951). He was the last giant of American operetta, but to whatever style or mood he turned, Romberg was able to bring a charm uniquely his. Deep In My Heart (also the title of Rombergıs 1954 biopic) presents arguably his 25 finest songs. Romberg created a long string of musicals, the most memorable being his operettas of the 20s, The Student Prince, The Desert Song and The New Moon. From those, and other, rich scores come such wonderful evergreens as Lover, Come Back To Me, When I Grow Too Old To Dream, Softly As In A Morning Sunrise, One Alone, Serenade and so many more etched in everyoneıs memory. As with each of the Songs Of issues, an amazing roster of artists has been gathered together, in many cases associated with famous Romberg films. Thus the partnership of Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald is well represented (7 tracks), Mario Lanza sings four hits from the 1954 film of The Student Prince, and Tony
[Item Code: 59388 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / VINTAGE TANGO TONIGHT (5561) |
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This CD offers the entire range of tangoistic emotion during 1930-1950, with most tracks (19) coming from the '30s. The CD parades a succession of Latin-American and Euro-tangos, starting with the classic "A Media Luz from Alfred Hause" and ending with the equally classic "Jealousy" from Sidney Torch. In all, there are seven different nationalities represented, including of course Argentina (Francesco Canaro). Among the better-known European ensembles are those of Geraldo, Victor Silvester, Daj˘s Bla and Marek Weber. A rarity is the singing of La Cumparsita by opera star Tito Schipa.
[Item Code: 56544 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / VINTAGE TRAINS - SONGS OF THE STEAM AGE (5610) |
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Whether you are an avid train 'anorak' or just a csual enthusiast, your preception of Stem will by now most probably be fringed by a rose-colored halo in which ambience, sense of occasion- and even a nostalgia for the smell of the old trains- are fused in a vague longing for gentler, more sedate times. Come along, then, on a romantic journey of Train Songs.
[Item Code: 57897 CD: $11.00] |
| VARIOUS ARTISTS / YEAR - HITS OF 1930 (5195) |
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23 tracks feat. Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Hoagy Carmichael, Marlene Dietrich, Annette Hanshaw, Al Jolson, Guy Lombardo, Jack Payne, Jack Hylton +
[Item Code: 17350 CD: $11.00] |
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