1940...the MUSIC: Part 3.........all the tunes, all the genres...

1940.  Whether live, by radio, or phonograph....we listened to a LOT of music that year. From mountain music.....to Hawaiian and jazz........Here's Part 3 of my collection.


Oh, yeah....trust me.....there's A LOT more to come........Stay tuned :)

A beautiful life -Byron Parker Mountaineers

A handful of stars -Glenn Miller v=Ray Eberle

Alice Blue Gown -Frankie Masters (from radio)

Arleen -Jimmie Lunceford

Big Beaver -Bob Wills

Blue Eyed Elaine -Ernest Tubb

Bob Wills Special -Bob Wills

Boo-wah Boo-wah -Cab Calloway

Boog-it-Mills Brothers/Louis Armstrong

Bukka's Jitterbug Swing -Bukka White

By the watermelon vine. Lindy Lou -Benny Carter v=Mills Brothers

Cimarron, Roll On -Jimmy Wakley Trio

Don't you lie to me-Tampa Red

Easy Does It-Bobby Byrne v=Dorothy Claire

El Rancho Grande -Gene Autry

Harmonica Stomp -Sonny Terry/ Blind Boy Fuller

High on a windy hill-Gene Krupa

Hot Lips -Henry Busse

I love you too much -Gene Krupa

I Miss You So -Cats and The Fiddle

I surrender dear -Benny Carter

I'll Get Along Somehow -Ernest Tubb

I'll Never Cry Over You -Ernest Tubb

I'll never smile again -Fats Waller and His Rhythm

In the Hills Of Roane County -The Blue Sky Boys

Johnson Rag -Larry Clinton

Juke box jump -Georgie Auld

Jumpin At The Woodside -Django Reinhardt w/ Alix Combelle and His Swing Band

Junction blues -Erskine Hawkins

Just for old time's sake -Hank Penny and His Radio Cowboys

King for a day -Artie Shaw

L'Heure Bleu  -Maxine Sullivan

Lament for Javanette -Ben Webster

Let's Do It -Tony Pastor

Little Miss -Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy/Mary Lou WIlliams

Lonesome Highway Blues -Lucious Curtis

Low down gal blues -Lewis Bronzeville Five

The Dying Truck Driver -The Delmore Brothers

The Last Time -Louis Armstrong

https://rapidshare.com/files/2660696144/1940-3.zip

Meanwhile......Dover...The English coast......the front lines of the German air war

Part 2...The 1940 Music Project......EVERYTHING, not just the hits... :)

Part 2....the REAL 1940 music project.........

A handful of stars- Glenn Miller v=Ray Eberle

Anything that's part of you -Village Boys

Bogo Jo -Lionel Hampton

Concerto for Cootie (Do Nothin' til You Hear) -Duke Ellington

Crying the blues again -Ted Daffin's Texans

Elegie -Art Tatum

Everything depends on you -Earl Hines

Ferryboat Serenade -Andrews Sisters

Five O'Clock Whistle -Erskine Hawkins

Flining A Whing-Ding -Horace Henderson

Fools rush in -Glenn Miller v=Ray Eberle

Frenesi -Artie Shaw

Friendship -Kay Kyser 

Gone with the gin -Hot Lips Page

Good old New York -Jelly Roll Morton's Seven

Goody Goodbye -Ted Weems

He's My Uncle -Abe Lyman's California Orch.

Herman at The Sherman (Byfield stomp) -Woody Herman

Hit that jive Jack -Skeets Tolbert and His Gentlemen Swing

Hot dogs -The Three Peppers

House Of Morgan -Lionel Hampton

How 'bout that mess -Sam Price's Texas Bluesicians

How can I ever be alone -Mildred Bailey

How High The Moon -Benny Goodman

I don't stand a ghost of a chance -Frankie Trumbauer

I Don't Worry -Bar X Cowboys

I never knew -Teddy Wilson

I'll never smile again -Tommy Dorsey v=Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers

i'm falling for you -Earl Hines

I'm nobody's baby -Benny Goodman v= Helen Forrest 

I've Got My Eyes On You -Tommy Dorsey v=Alan DeWitt

If I had you -Una Mae Carlisle

If it's you-Artie Shaw

Imagination -Glenn Miller v=Ray Eberle

In The Mood  -Glenn Miller

Indian Summer -Tommy Dorsey

It's A Blue World -Glenn Miller v=Ray Eberle

It's A Hap, Hap, Happy Day -Eddie Duchin w/ The Three Earbenders

It's the Same Old Shillelagh -Harry's Tavern Band v=Billy Murray

https://rapidshare.com/files/1265072018/1940-2.zip

And, meanwhile....while we were driving Susie and Johnny to Grandma and Grandpa's farm in our 1940 Chevrolet.........Paris fell to the Nazi's.....



Just a reality check, being that a fair number of Americans were still pretty anti-intervention at the time. We weren't exactly convinced that anything happening "over there" would ever have anything to do with us........

My 1940 music project: PART ONE....Soooo NOT a "Billboard-type" list. But, then..Y'all pretty much know how I roll by now ;)

1940 wasn't just Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman, so as usual this won't just be a feel good "In the Mood" list.......

There was a lot more released in all genres of music....a LOT more.


I believe in covering the music that EVERYONE listened to.....not just what we're TOLD that real people were hearing in 1940.....


So, doing things the way we do around here.......firing on all cylinders and forward we go......here's MY 1940 music list.....Part One:





Aberdeen Mississippi Blues-Bukka White
Abi gezunt -Ozzie Nelson v=Rose Ann Stevens (from radio)
About Rip Van Winkle -Don Redman
AC-DC Current -Charlie Christian with Benny Goodman
Adios, Mariquita Linda -Artie Shaw
All Star Strut -Charlie Christian/Goodman
All the things you ain't-Tommy Dorsey
All The Things You Are -Tommy Dorsey
All The Things You Are -Ozzie Nelson
And So Do I -Jimmy Dorsey v=Bob Eberle
Andiology -Charlie Shavers/John Kirby Orch.
Baby Won't You Please Come Home -Ella Fitzgerald
Ballad For Americans -Paul Robeson
Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar -Andrews Sisters
Beer And Skittles -Louise Massey and The Westerners
Blue Afterglow -Jimmie Lunceford
Blueberry Hill -Gene Autry
Boogie Woogie -Django Reinhardt w/ Philippe Brun and his Jam Band
Bugle call rag -Glenn Miller
Bugs Parade -Jimmie Lunceford
Cabbage greens -Champion Jack Dupree
Cabin In The Sky -Ella FItzgerald
Can't get Indiana off my mind -Bing Crosby
Cant We Be Friends -Buster Bailey/John Kirby
Careless -Glenn Miller
Chop chop Charlie Chan -Gene Krupa
Cocoanut Grove -Teddy Wilson
Cottontail -Ben Webster
Darn That Dream -Benny Goodman v=Mildred Bailey
Deed I do- (v Mary Ann McCall) -Charlie Barnet
Did your mother come from Ireland -Bing Crosby/King's Men
Dinah Part 2 -Jimmie Lunceford
Do You Care -Bob Crosby v=Johnny Desmond
Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament) -Duke Ellington
Down Argentina Way -Gene Krupa
The Breeze and I -Jimmy Dorsey


https://rapidshare.com/files/1360356030/1940-1.zip


Much, much much more to come..................much more :)

WebRep

currentVote

noRating

noWeight

Another little special project: Part 2 of BBC-"The 1940s House"

Here is the remaining part of BBC-"The 1940s House"....Enjoy!







Feedback on your reaction to this project would be ever so greatly appreciated. Thank You in advance! -Laura

Another little special project: Part 1 of BBC-"The 1940s House"

I've been trying to do a few different things lately. Not just the music as usual, but a few more pictorials and such. I recently re-watched the BBC reality series, "The 1940s House". Now I'm not normally a fan of reality TV...or really ANY television, unless it's current events/news related. but I loved the show, and felt I needed to view it again.


Being nearly 50, I grew up on the tales of my parents, and grandparents....life in the Great Depression, and life during the war years on the American home front. Being an avid student of history and growing up in a family that was great on talking and teaching about the past, I often feel that I know quite a bit of how life and culture was....from both the major timeline events, music, fashion, and technology.....to even the most mundane of the daily aspects of the lives we led many years ago.


Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to technology, and would find it awfully hard to live without all of it. I certainly won't deny that I'm as lazy as the next person when it comes to modern material comforts, but I do know enough about how to "get by".....knowing many of practical tools that most of us have forgotten, and which most of us used to learn as a matter of course from our elders. Can you bake a pie from scratch? darn a sock?, lay a fire? that sort of thing. I feel that I can safely say that I know many who can't, as I'm sure that many of you could say the same also.


I mention this because I try my damndest to teach as many of these things as possible to my 13 year old, as my mother did for me. Trust me, she WILL learn the secret to my Great-Grandmother's famous lard and ice water pie crust!! I'm amazed at the ignorance of some of the most basic things that were daily parts of the lives of our elders. No wonder our grandparents worried for us, as we really couldn't make it a day without the modern conveniences that we've come to depend upon.


My daughter was freaked out a bit by this series when first she saw it. I do think she was a bit young to take in all of it at the time, and frankly was a bit bored by all of it.  She's a teen now, and I feel it's time for her to watch it again. They've studied WWII and the Holocaust in Middle School, and have a basic understanding of the politics and effects of the war as an result. 


That being said, she only knows of what the Americans on the home front experienced during the war. She has no idea how different it was for Europeans, especially the British, and just what they had to live with daily in the 6 months leading up to the Blitz and the war.....also the hardships of wartime deprivation and the constant presence of possible death being always a part of ones life. My daughter's best friend has one parent who lives in London, and she spends each summer over there with her father and her grandparents. I've heard that she has been told something of what life was like during that time for them, but I don't really know if the girls really understand just of life was actually like. I'm hoping that maybe if they watch this, it will give them an idea just a bit of what it was like....a world completely removed from anything that they now experience in our cushy, comfortable, disposable existence......


Yes, this IS reality TV, but I do feel there is much to be learned from this, IMHO.


The show:


Assembled by the same team responsible for the reality series 1900 House and Frontier House, this three-episode endeavor challenges a 21st century British family to live under the same conditions experienced by their countrymen during the WWII years (1939-1945). Three generations of the Hymers family are crowded into an old-fashioned London flat, where they must endure such deprivations as food rationing and air-raid blackouts, as well as conduct their lives within the moral and cultural parameters of the early '40s. How well the Hymers clan fares under these restrictions is determined by a "war cabinet" made up of historians and sociologists. Originally broadcast in the U.K. in January of 2001, all three episodes of 1940s House were later broadcast on a single evening by America's PBS network.


Here 'Tis......Enjoy. (Part 2 to come in the next post)