Thursday, January 26, 2017

"Unreality Check" January 27, 2017

(Week 453)

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Arthur Fields - Oh What a Pal Was Whoozis! (1927) - Bell 515 A
Tempo King and his Kings of Tempo - You're Giving Me a Song and a Dance (1936) - Bluebird B-6575-B
Willard Robison (w/Ipana Troubadours) - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D
The Bostonians (Ernie Golden) - Lonely Acres (1926) - Vocalion A 15490
Eddie Harkness and his Orch (Harold Dana v) - Trees (1928) - Victor 21313 A
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - Tough Breaks (1928) - Bluebird B-6638-B
Bessie Smith - Money Blues (1926) - Columbia 14137 D
Art Gillham - I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In (1927) - Columbia 1051 D
Annette Hanshaw and her Sizzling Syncopaters - There Must Be a Silver Lining (1928) - Perfect 12419
Jazz-Bo's Carolina Serenaders - Hot Lips (1922) - Cameo 257
Majestic Dance Orch (Katzman) - Lost (A Wonderful Girl) (1922) - Grey Gull 1137 A
Ray Miller and his Orch - Me Neenyah (1925) - Brunswick 2814 B
Eddie Nelson - After You've Gone (1918) - Emerson 971
Bostonian Syncopators (OM5) - Stop Your Kidding (1922) - Grey Gull 1137 B
Original Indiana Five (Tom Morton v) - Someday Sweetheart (1927) - Harmony 501 H
The Royal Klobasneks - San Antonio Rose (2015) - Here We Go!
Glenn Crytzer's Savoy Seven - Uptown Jump (2015) - That New Old Sound
Arnold Johnson and his Paramount Hotel Orch (Roy Strom v) - Me and The Man in The Moon (1928) - Brunswick 4125
William F. Wirges and his Orch (Irving Kaufman v) - Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) - Brunswick 3910 A
Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch - Mary Lee (1929) - Bluebird B-6638-A
Gus Arnheim and his Cocoanut Grove Orch (Bing Crosby v) - I'm Gonna Get You (1931) - Victor 22691 B
Helen Morgan (Victor Young Orch, Louis Alter piano) - Bill (1932) - Columbia 55005
Johnny Marvin - To Whom it May Concern (1931) - Victor 22604 B
Louis Armstrong and his Orch - I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (1933) - Bluebird B 6771 A
Bumble Bee Slim and his Riffers - I'se Gonna Break Em Down (1936) - Decca 7343 A
Les Brown and his Duke University Blue Devils - Swamp Fire (1937) - Decca 1231 A
Jan Garber and his Orch (Russ Brown v) - I'm Just Beginning to Care (1936) - Decca 859 B
Ambrose and his Orch - Cotton Picker’s Congregation (1937) - Decca 1526 B
Tommy Ladnier and his Orch - Weary Blues (1938) - Bluebird B-10086-A
Art Hinett Threesome - March Slave (Tchaikovsky) (1939) - Bluebird B-10863-A
Singin' Sam - Melancholy Mood (1939) - Refreshment Time B 709
Claude Thornhill and his Orch - Snowfall (1941) - Columbia 36268