"Nowhere But Up" July 18, 2014

(Week 392)

This RADIOLA! has begun to rebound.

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To our great delight, the brand new CD from The Singapore Slingers, The Frank Skinner Project, arrived this week. Matt Tolentino and his dedicated group of time-travelers have created a marvelous album of vintage Skinner arrangements reminiscent of the great Hotel Band sound of the 1920s and 1930s. This is the real music of that era. Congratulations to Matt and the Slingers for getting it right! (To purchase this CD, contact Matt through this page on his website. Or buy a full download of the album from CD Baby here.)

(Cover art by Danielle Bennignus)

Irving and Jack Kaufman - I Ain't'en Got'en No Time To Have the Blues (1919) - Columbia A 2745

Ben Pollack and his Orch - I'm Looking at the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses (1938) - Decca 2057 B

Willard Robison w/Ipana Troubadours - Wake Up! Chill'un, Wake Up! (1929) - from Columbia 1779 D

Austin Wylie's Golden Pheasant Orch (Radio Franks v) - Bye Bye Blackbird (1926) - Vocalion B 15333

Don Voorhees and his Orch - Soliloquy (1927) - Columbia 1129 D

Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (F Baur v) - I Haven't Told Her She Hasn't Told Me (1927) - Victor 20823 B

Kitty O'Connor - I'm Walkin' On Air (1927) - Columbia 1174 D

The Revelers - Blue Shadows (1928) - Victor 21765 B

Johnny Marvin - Old Man Sunshine (1928) - Victor 21609 A

Jockers' Dance Orch - Yama Yama Blues (Intro You're Some Pretty Doll) (1919) - Columbia A 2741

The Cotton Pickers - Got To Cool My Doggies Now (1922) - Brunswick 2338 B

The Georgians (Johnny Morris v) - Let's Do It (1928) - Static Strut (Rivermont BSW 1162)

Palmetto Jazz Quartette - Home Again Blues (1921) - Okeh 8023 A

Shelton Brooks - It Takes Money to Cure the Blues (1923) - Okeh 4823 A

Miss Lee Morse and her Blue Grass Boys - Yes, Sir, That's My Baby (1925) - Perfect 11580

The Singapore Slingers (Matt Tolentino v) - Breezin' Along With the Breeze (2014) - The Frank Skinner Project (buy a full download here)

The Singapore Slingers (Matt Tolentino v) - My Cutie's Due at Two-to-Two Today (2014) - The Frank Skinner Project (buy a full download here)

Ada Jones - That Dreamy Barcarolle Tune (1910) - Victor 16682 B

Victor Light Opera Co - Gems from Sari (Cushing-Heath-Kalman) (1914) - Victor 35365 B

Victor Military Band - Ha-Za-Za (from Sari) (Kalman) (1914) - orig Victor 17559 (LoC)

Oceanic Dance Orch - A Cottage For Sale (1930) - Madison 5058 A

Bob Effros (Frank Signorelli p) - Sweet & Hot (Mosiello) (1929) - Brunswick 4620

Louis Armstrong and his Orch - I Got Rhythm (1931) - Parlophone R 1207

Jack Miller - Should I (1930) - Harmony 1115 H

Bessie Smith - Keep It To Yourself (1930) - Any Woman's Blues (Columbia G 30126 LP)

Wingy Mannone and his Orch - Shake That Thing (1930) - Champion 40054 B

Smith Ballew and his Orch - Gigolette (1934) - Oriole 3037 B

Isham Jones' Juniors (Virginia Verrill v) - Tormented (1935) - Decca 770 A

Red McKenzie and his Rhythm Kings - Moon Rose (1936) - Decca 734 B

Clyde McCoy and his Orch (Wayne Gregg v) - The Gypsy in My Soul (1938) - Decca 1766 A

The Caresser - The More They Try to Do Me Bad (1938) - Calypso Breakway1927-1941 (Rounder CD 1054)

Richard Himber and His Orchestra (Joey Nash v) - Tea For Two (1934) - Complete Vol.2 (Renovation 7007)