What music are you listening to?

[Sean Regan]

I've never pigeonholed myself when it comes to music, I'll listen to any good tune, either played or sung well, from any era.

Tonight I played the cassette I have of this pre-war (1935) album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This Australian trio, who model themselves on the Boswell Sisters, did them justice here in 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then I found Stephanie Trick.

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Guy and Ralna Hovis ~ An Old Fashioned Love Song

 

[Sean Regan]

Never mind the Stones cover, this is the original.

 

[Sean Regan]

One of the movies on a digital channel tonight had this playing over the opening credits, I've got it on an album, I like it, but not as much as the original by the Everly brothers.

 

[Sean Regan]

This was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein for the film "High Wide and Handsome" in 1937.

It's usually associated with Peggy Lee.

I like this version by Jo Stafford

 

[Logan]

I watch this guy who analysis the voices and can tell how they sing.

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm watching an old episode of Morse on ITV and running through it, they are playing, "Why can't you behave?" The recording by the jazz singer Marion Montgomery.
The mention of her name always reminds me of her duet with Dudley Moore from an episode of the TV show, "Not Only But Also" in 1966.
When he starts scat singing, she can't contain her amusement.

She was another lung cancer victim attributed to passive smoking.

 

[Sean Regan]

All the great jazz pianists have played this.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

Original and wrote by him

One of the covers

 

[Logan]

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

That damn tune I can't get out of my head - or put a name to. Some people tell me I'm out of my mind. But it's good thing, you would be too - it's a dark and scary place in there.

 

[Sean Regan]

I'm watching an old episode of Morse on ITV 3, I recorded earlier this afternoon.
I usually skipped through the adverts but I wasn't quick enough to avoid one by Gala Bingo.

It surprised me that the track they used was one on a double album I bought in either 1974 or 1975.

I've also got it on a 45rpm record in this.

 

[Sean Regan]

I bought this album in 1959 as a teenager. I still have it after 64 years. It was the first time I'd seen a coloured telephone with a curly wire.
They weren't introduced to the UK until years later.

André Previn could play anything.


This is a full album.

Compare the frenetic up-tempo first track to the ballad that follows.

But this is my favourite track, the fourth on the album. Same one, a later cover.

 

[Sean Regan]

Hollies eat your hearts out.

They rushed out a cover of this before the original reached the UK

I think Carol Kaye played the bass on this, it really made the record.

Linda Ronstadt's version was the second best.