"Hello, Bluebird!" August 31, 2007

(Week 91)

Everyone has returned to Hamilton College for the new semester, and this RADIOLA! was the first of the fall season at WHCL. Welcome back! (Be sure to check out the YouTube links to the featured selections.)

Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields – Hello Bluebird! (ca. 1927) – Vitaphone audio
Guy Lombardo and his R. C’ans – Whistling in the Dark (1931) – Collectors’ Choice CCM-299-2
Ipana Troubadors – Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up! (1929) – Columbia 1779-D (78 RPM)
Eddie Lang – Perfect (1927) – Retrieval RTR 79015
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers – If I Could Be With You (1930) – Jazz Archives No.26
Seattle Harmony Kings – Breezin’ Along With the Breeze (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-072
Vaughn De Leath – Ukulele Lady (1925) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5468
Bing Crosby – Let’s Try Again (1932) – CK 44305
Mildred Bailey – Georgia On My Mind (1931) – JSPCD918B
Dick Rich and his Synco-Symphonists – Chloe (1928) – Vitaphone audio
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orch. – Jones Law Blues (1929) – Classics 578
Irving Mills’ Hotsy Totsy Gang – Strut Miss Lizzie (1929) – Sensation 769748025-2
Ethel Waters – Do I Know What I’m Doing? (1929) – Classics 721
Fred Astaire – Music Makes Me (U.K. Issue) (1933) – Naxos 8.120718
The Boswell Sisters – It Don’t Mean a Thing (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6462
West End Jazz Band – Tin Ear (2005) – Audio from live performance video
The Wiyos – Everybody Loves My Baby (2007) – Audio from live performance video
Al Gallodoro (w/ the Beau Hunks) – Smoke Rings (1999) – “Out of Nowhere” Basta 30-9092-2
Rudy Vallee and his CT Yankees – Sposin’ (1929) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5002
Eddie South and his Int’l Orch. – Hejre Kati (1931) – Frog DGF 36
Leslie Hutchinson (“Hutch”) – September in the Rain (1937) – Prism PLATCD 566
Annette Hanshaw – Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (1931) – ASV Living Era CD AJA 5220
Earl Burtnett and his L.A. Biltmore Orch. – Miss Annabelle Lee (1928) – Vitaphone Audio
Goofus Five – I’ve Got the Girl (1926) – Timeless CBC 1-017
Cab Calloway and his Orch. – Gotta Darn Good Reason Now (1930) – Masters of Jazz MJCD105
Ben Pollack and his P.C. Orch. – She’s One Sweet Show Girl (1928) – Jazz Oracle BDW 8015
Bing Crosby – Please (1932) – Collectables COL-CD-6805
Hoagy Carmichael – Cosmics (1934) – Bluebird ND 88333
Gene Austin with Candy and Coco – China Boy (1937) – Rivermont BSW-1141
Walter Huston – September Song (1938) – Pro Arte Digital CDD 509
Abe Lyman and his Orch. – Varsity Drag (1928) – Vitaphone audio
Ben Bernie and his Orch. – Au Revoir, Pleasant Dreams (1941) – Reader’s Digest LP Box Set