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Nice and Easy - Legendary Performers - Unforgettable Songs: SWING SOFTLY SWEET SAMPSON - Edgar Sampson Orchestra 1957
Monday, August 31, 2009
Vocalist CHRIS CONNOR dies at 81
Chris Connor, a Kansas City native and prominent big-band [Stan Kenton] jazz singer of the 1940s, ‘50s and beyond, died on Saturday 29 August 2009, of cancer. She was 81.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
V Discs
Many pop and Big Band radio programs are available today because they were pressed for listening by servicemen overseas during Wprld War II. Many are preserved and can be heard today.
Very interesting program on BBC Radio 2 - "Opp Goes Uncle Sam." It tells the history of the V-Disc program of World War 2 and beyond. You can find it at
HERE
This program is Part 1 of a multi-part series.
This is an archived program that was broadcast last Monday evening GMT. It will be replaced by Part 2, so if you want to hear Part 1, you must bring it up right away.
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Very interesting program on BBC Radio 2 - "Opp Goes Uncle Sam." It tells the history of the V-Disc program of World War 2 and beyond. You can find it at
HERE
This program is Part 1 of a multi-part series.
This is an archived program that was broadcast last Monday evening GMT. It will be replaced by Part 2, so if you want to hear Part 1, you must bring it up right away.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
SINATRA Ten years after death
This article originally ran in the May 15, 1998 edition of the New York Daily News.
Frank Sinatra sang with a fierce intensity, like a man in pursuit of that one elusive moment when the song would be precisely as he wanted it to be.
He lived the same way, and when he died May 14, he probably would have said that he never reached that moment that in the end it remained one step and one note beyond his grasp...Read More
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
BENNY GOODMAN Birth Centennial
For decades Benny Goodman and his clarinet popped up just about everywhere, and when they did, just about everyone knew it. Goodman would have turned 100 on May 30. He defined for most people the swing era that dominated popular American music for much of the 1930s and 1940s. From Carnegie Hall and New York's exclusive clubs to his backing up Jack Teagarden in 1933 on "Texas Tea Party," he was as versatile and prolific as he was famous.
Glenn Miller band
From 1939 to 1942, Glenn Miller's band was featured three times a week during a broadcast for Chesterfield cigarettes, originally with the Andrews Sisters and then on its own. There were many radio network remote broadcasts from night clubs, hotel ballrooms and restaurants in the late 1930's.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Tommy Dorsey
Tommy Dorsey (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was the younger brother of Jimmy Dorsey. His lyrical trombone style became one of the signature sounds of his band and of the Swing Era.
Broadcast September 18, 1942:
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
BigBandRemote.com
A big band remote (aka dance band remote) was a remote broadcast, popular on radio during the 1930s and 1940s, involving a coast-to-coast live transmission of a big band. As early as 1923, listeners could tune in The Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra. The Oriole Orchestra (Dan Russo and Ted Fio Rito) was performing at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel when they did their first radio remote broadcast on March 29, 1924, and two years later, they opened the famous Aragon Ballroom in July 1926, doing radio remotes nationally from both the Aragon and the Trianon ballrooms. In 1929, after Rudy Vallée's Orchestra vacated Manhattan's Heigh-Ho Club to do a movie in Hollywood, Will Osborne's dance band found fame with a nationwide audience due to radio remotes from the Heigh-Ho. By 1930, Ben Bernie was heard in weekly remotes from Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. On November 24, 1937, Glenn Miller did a remote on NBC from Boston's Raymor Ballroom on Huntington Avenue (one block from Symphony Hall).
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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