IRVING KAUFMAN shows us all how Henry Ford and Klu Klux Kleagels are learning how to do THE YIDDISHA CHARLESTON, c1926 [dd].
Dean Martin - "Arthritis"
MERV GRIFFIN explains why the RECORD BUSINESS has the blues - a song so topical it could have been recorded last week! Privately pressed as a party record (literally) by RCA, c1954 [dd].
Here's a great Rodgers and Hart song that nobody knows, FLY AWAY TO IOWAY (from Hollywood Party) by TED FIO RITO AND HIS ORCHESTRA, vocal by Muzzy Marcellino and The Three Tamponettes. It's kind of their wise-ass parody of " Shuffle Off To Buffalo," 1933. [rae]
Hans Conried, the possessor of The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T, sings the DRESSING THEME (Frederich Hollaender - Dr.Seuss) from that delightfully bizarre movie, 1952.
DOOLEY WILSON and an unidentified friend sing the commercial Decca version of the "other" song from Casablanca, here's KNOCK ON WOOD, 1943. [jl]
Classical Music section introduction (by a rather unctious announcer):
The only occasion when FRANK SINATRA ever sang a genuine operatic aria, it's "LA CI DAREM" from DON GIOVANNI by W. A. Mozart, with Kathryn Grayson, as recorded for the MGM film It Happened in Brooklyn (1946). This will be included in the forthcoming six-CD box Frank Sinatra in Hollywood.
RAY BOURBON fills us all in on the whys and wherefores of "SPANISH OPERA" (actually Carmen) [dd].
MR. STOKOWSKI (SWING ME A SYMPHONY) Australia's answer to "Mr. Paginini," this incorporates swing treatments of some rather unlikely classical themes, by JIM DAVISON AND THE ABC DANCE ORCHESTRA, vAlice Smith & band, 1939. [rs]
I once asked ROSEMARY CLOONEY to name the worst song she ever recorded and without hesitation she replied CANASTA (1950). Take a listen and judge for yourself. A Mitch Miller Masterpiece!
Dean Martin introduces our Island Music Excursion - and other exotic ports of call:
LOUIS PRIMA AND HIS ITALO-JEWISH ALLIANCE ORCHESTRA go all out for a showtune from Angels in the Wings, THE THOUSAND ISLAND SONG ("Florence!"), 1947.
An interesting "world beat" version of the swing classic IN THE MOOD - wild saxophonics and a great native language vocal [jl] (Wena buti lalela-Zulu/Ndebele) (Garland, Razaf). BULAWAYO SWEET RHYTHMS BAND. (45rpm) London 45-1491 (XYZF-6300-1). ?Johannesburg, c1954?
A little hungry after all this traveling? Why not SAM ROBBINS AND HIS ORCHESTRA treat us to A BOWL OF CHOP SUEY AND YOU-EY. Vocal by Sam himself, 1934. [rs]
MARRY AN UGLY WOMAN: "THE LION" sings the original calypso version of the multi-generic hit, c1939. [dd]
That King of Calypso, WOODY HERMAN (who actually recorded a whole album of calypsos years before Harry Belafonte) sings a song along similar lines, FANCY WOMAN, c1952.
Miss NELLIE LUTCHER informs us that PRINCESS POO POOLY HAS PLENTY PAPAYA. She loves to give it away. Yes! 1947.
More exotic saxomania - the original Zimbabawe version of the American pop hit, SKOKIAAN, c1951? [mk]
More exotica : "FELIX FIGEROA AND HIS ORCHESTRA" (aka Freddy Martin) offer a live version of their own demented classic PICO AND SEPULVEDA, the nature of which concerns what I am told is a very happening street in Los Angeles. 1946 [bk/dd]
One of the most exciting platters I've ever heard : THE KAY THOMPSON SINGERS meet JOHNNY GREEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA in THE STEAM IS ON THE BEAM. Not for the faint-hearted, c1945. [rs]
One of the all-time great voices, MR. EDDIE "ROCHESTER" ANDERSON and some Los Angeles studio friends are WAITIN' FOR JANE. 1940, "Yeah?" "Yeah!" [jl]
In light of recent events the eyes of the world are on us here in New York City - and The Bronx in particular.
MOLLY PICON, the most famous star of the Yiddish theatre, is our tour guide through a NEW YORK SYMPHONY, actually recorded in London, 1936. [rs]
Sure to be Mark Nadler's next number, this is BILLY GRAY explaining how EVERYBODY WANTS A LITTLE "PEACE" (Sid Kuller), c1946. [dd]
Dean Martin introduces a selection from his Musical Bum. I mean, Music album!
ELLA FITZGERALD with a live and previously unissued version of a song by Ray Brown and Steve Allen entitled CUTIE PANTS, a swinging gravy waltz-a-ditty! From Juan Les Pins, featuring Roy Eldridge. 1964. [sheikh]
JUNE CHRISTY and STAN KENTON in one of the weirdest pieces they ever attempted - THIS IS MY THEME. You might call it jazz-and poetry except that it's not really jazz and it's hardly poetry. 1947.
Feeling the need to get you to listen to some normal, great JUNE CHRISTY here's a 1949 transcription of a great and unjustly neglected tune, here's HAPPY IN LOVE (from Sons o' Fun, Fain - Yellin).
LUDWIG VON DRAKE (Paul Frees) tells us all about THE GREEN WITH ENVY BLUES (Richard M. Sherman-Robert B. Sherman) (a colorful yarn supposedly meant to help demonstrate color TV), c1960 [jl]
TAKE A PICTURE OF THE MOON: No, this isn't a singing midget, it's BABY ROSE MARIE, the swingin'est, growlin'est seven year old that you ever heard, and with FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA, yet! 1933 [dd]
BOWLING SONG (Charlie, Harry and Henry Tobias). Official Theme Song: "BOWLING STARS" and "BOWLING TIME" Television Shows. DICK LIEBERT (Organ); Vocal Refrain By The Three Beaus and a Peep. Definitely not Leonard Bernstein, c1955?
THE PSYCHADELIC SINATRA: This is the weirdest thing that OL' BLUE EYES ever recorded, LEAVE IT ALL TO ME, a piece by Paul Anka which eventually became a radio jingle. Can this be Kurt Weill on drugs? Unreleased, from 1988.
SARAH VAUGHAN sings a pro-radio jingle actually written by STAN FREBERG, c '60s. [dd]
Another Dean Martin bit "Try A Little Tenderness."
"We'll be seeing you!" [jl]
source material: Dr. Demento (Barry Hansen), John Leifert, Father Knickerbocker (Roger Sturtevant), Mike Kieffer, Brad Kay, Dan "Waterman" Levinson.
Thanks to Milton Knight aka "Lou Hepton" for the subtitle!
Will Friedwald
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