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#31 Post by anton » Sat May 05, 2007 9:01 am

Swifty wrote:Those Proper sets are the greatest.
Folks! Forget about Proper Records. I've just started my own reissue label - Anton Records! Just send me twenty bucks in a brown envelope and you can become the lucky owner of AntonBox 001 - The Complete Jimmie Lunceford 1927-1939. Spanning seven CDs (hmm...), the box features these amazing tracks:

1 Chickasaw Stomp
2 Memphis Rag
3 In Dat Mornin'
4 Sweet Rhythm
5 Flaming Reeds and Screaming Brass
6 While Loves Last
7 White Heat
8 Jazznocracy
9 Chillun', Get Up!
10 Leaving Me
11 Swingin' Uptown
12 Breakfast Ball
13 Here Goes (A Fool)
14 Here Goes (A Fool)
15 Remember When
16 Sophisticated Lady
17 Mood Indigo
18 Mood Indigo
19 Rose Room
20 Black and Tan Fantasy
21 Stratosphere

1 Nana
2 Miss Otis Regrets
3 Unsophisticated Sue
4 Stardust
5 Stardust
6 Dream of You
7 Stomp It Off
8 Call It Anything
9 Because You're You
10 Because You're You
11 Chillun, Get Up!
12 Solitude
13 Rain
14 Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down
15 Jealous
16 Rhythm Is Our Business
17 Rhythm Is Our Business
18 I'm Walking Through Heaven with You
19 Shake Your Head from Side to Side

1 Sleepy Time Gal
2 Bird of Paradise
3 Rhapsody Junior
4 Runnin' Wild
5 Four or Five Times
6 Four or Five Times
7 (If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes
8 Babs
9 Swanee River
10 Thunder
11 Oh Boy
12 (You Take the East, Take the West, Take the North, ) I'll Take the ...
13 Avalon
14 Charmaine
15 Hittin' the Bottle
16 My Blue Heaven
17 I'm Nuts About Screwy Music
18 The Best Things in Life Are Free
19 The Melody Man
20 The Melody Man
21 Jazznocracy /It's Rhythm Coming to Life Again/Rhythm ... [Incomplete Take]

1 Organ Grinder's Swing
2 On the Beach at Bali-Bali
3 Me and the Moon
4 Living from Day to Day
5 Tain't Good (Like a Nickel Made of Wood)
6 Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan)
7 I Can't Escape from You
8 Harlem Shout
9 (This Is) My Last Affair
10 Running a Temperature
11 Honey, Keep Your Mind on Me
12 Count Me Out
13 I'll See You in My Dreams
14 He Ain't Got Rhythm
15 Linger Awhile
16 Honest & Truly
17 Slumming on Park Avenu
18 Coquette
19 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down [Master Take]
20 The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
21 Ragging the Scale
22 Hell's Bells
23 For Dancers Only

1 Posin'
2 The First Time I Saw You
3 Honey, Keep Your Mind on Me
4 Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
5 Pigeon Walk
6 Like a Ship at Sea
7 Teasin' Tessie Brown
8 Annie Laurie
9 Frisco Fog
10 Margie
11 The Love Nest
12 I'm Laughing Up My Sleeve (Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha)
13 Down by the Old Mill Stream
14 My Melancholy Baby
15 Sweet Sue, Just You
16 By the River Sainte Marie
17 Rainin'
18 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)
19 Cheatin' on Me
20 Cheatin' on Me
21 Le Jazz Hot
22 Le Jazz Hot
23 Time's A-Wastin'
24 Time's A-Wastin'

1 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
2 Baby Won't You Please Come Home
3 You're Just a Dream
4 The Lonesome Road
5 You Set Me on Fire
6 I've Only Myself to Blame
7 What Is This Thing Called Swing?
8 What Is This Thing Called Swing?
9 Mixup Oliver
10 Shoemaker's Holiday
11 Blue Blazes
12 Mandy, Make up Your Mind
13 Easter Parade
14 Ain't She Sweet
15 White Heat
16 Oh Why, Oh Why
17 Well, All Right Then
18 Well, All Right Then
19 You Let Me Down
20 I Love You
21 Who Did You Meet Last Night?
22 You Let Me Down
23 Sassin' the Boss
24 I Want the Waiter (With the Water)
25 I Used to Love You (But It's All over Now)

1 Belgium Stomp
2 You Can Fool Some of the People (Some of the Time)
3 Think of Me Little Daddy
4 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
5 Put It Away
6 I'm Alone With You
7 Rock It for Me
8 I'm in an Awful Mood
9 I'm in an Awful Mood
10 Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam!)
11 Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam!)
12 Pretty Eyes
13 Uptown Blues
14 Lunceford Special
15 Bugs Parade
16 Blues in the Groove
17 I Wanna Hear Swing Songs
18 It's Time to Jump and Shout
19 What's Your Story, Morning Glory?
20 Dinah, Pts. 1 and 2
21 Pathetique, Op. 13

Wow! How's that for value! And the sound quality is every bit as good as that out-of-print French series that I can't remember the name of right now...

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#32 Post by lipi » Sun May 06, 2007 7:12 pm

yes, but how are your liner notes? :o)

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#33 Post by wspeid » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:59 am

I just stumbled across a good French compilation

Jimmie Lunceford: Une Anthologie 1934-1942 on the Cabu label (?)
Issued April 24, 2007

Listening to the songs back to back against the Swingsation recording I found the French recordings to be much crisper and clearer on almost every track; especially on For Dancers Only

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#34 Post by Eyeball » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:04 am

Majestic Lunceford trivia-

I saw part of some cable tv movie recently which was set in 1947. There was a scene in a record store (so the movie is already cool just on that basis) and as the people move around in the store, they pick up a Jimmie Lunceford 78 rpm...on the Majestic label.....which is 1000% right!!! Lunceford had moved to Majestic in 1947 from the far more common Decca label. The film makers actually showed the proper 78 for the proper year.
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Re: Majestic Lunceford trivia-

#35 Post by meadtastic » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:00 pm

Eyeball wrote:Majestic Lunceford trivia-

I saw part of some cable tv movie recently which was set in 1947. There was a scene in a record store (so the movie is already cool just on that basis) and as the people move around in the store, they pick up a Jimmie Lunceford 78 rpm...on the Majestic label.....which is 1000% right!!! Lunceford had moved to Majestic in 1947 from the far more common Decca label. The film makers actually showed the proper 78 for the proper year.
wonder if this was on purpose or just a happy accident...

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#36 Post by Eyeball » Thu Dec 20, 2007 8:07 pm

meadtastic wrote:
Eyeball wrote:Majestic Lunceford trivia-

I saw part of some cable tv movie recently which was set in 1947. There was a scene in a record store (so the movie is already cool just on that basis) and as the people move around in the store, they pick up a Jimmie Lunceford 78 rpm...on the Majestic label.....which is 1000% right!!! Lunceford had moved to Majestic in 1947 from the far more common Decca label. The film makers actually showed the proper 78 for the proper year.
wonder if this was on purpose or just a happy accident...
I wondered, too.

JL was on on Majestic for about two years around 1947. Majestic was not around very long - maybe 3 years or so.

Majestics are not sought after, so there are still a fair amount of them around 60 years later. Lunceford black label Deccas are fairly common, too. But the blue label Deccas from the mid 30s and early 40s are the records that turn up most - bigger sellers from JLs top era.

So - tough call. Someone may have done their homework...or just gotten lucky.

Don't remember the name of the film. It was on some 'feel good' station. I taped that part. I'll look again for telltale signs of knowledge.

fwiw - The producers of DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS bought hundreds of 78s from me to use in the film. They took over half a block downtown and build a full scale record store circa late 40s.

I went down to the set and they had done a near perfect job! Posters, records, proper 78 albums (except one) listening posts - everything. I couldn't wait to see the film.

I go to the film and the camera is panning in towards the store...then pans up - and we never see the interior of the store!!!!!

Tear drop time....... :(

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#37 Post by meadtastic » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:21 pm

of course the simple explanation is that the movie makers just looked at the date on the record and used it. maybe had it layin' around.

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#38 Post by Eyeball » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:44 pm

meadtastic wrote:of course the simple explanation is that the movie makers just looked at the date on the record and used it. maybe had it layin' around.
Generally, there is no date on the label save for a copyright date.

And they would not have set the entire movie in 1947 just because they had a record from 1947.
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#39 Post by lipi » Fri May 29, 2015 9:59 pm

*bumpety-bump*

Lunceford's birthday is coming up on the sixth of June, and conveniently I am DJ'ing the night before. So, what should I play for Lunceford Eve? Anyone have new favourites (perhaps from the Decca Lunceford Mosaic from a few years ago)? Trev? Anton? The other usual suspects?

I'll start with some favourites from that Mosaic:

"Strictly Instrumental", 1942, 169 bpm
"My Blue Heaven", 1935, 170 bpm
"Chillun! Get up!", 1934, 175 bpm
"Me and the Moon", 1936, 155 bpm
"Harlem Shout", 1936, 200 bpm
"Twenty-Four Robbers", 1941, 140 bpm
"Stomp It Off", 1934, 192 bpm

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#40 Post by anton » Sat May 30, 2015 1:28 pm

I really dig those Lang-Worth transcription sessions from 1940 that were issued on Circle Records. Here is a really nice newspaper article from 1982(!) when those songs were first released on a Circle LP:

http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/arts/ ... disks.html

My favourites are:

Okay for Baby (160 bpm)
State and Tioga Stomp (185 bpm)
Battle Axe (215 bpm)

I think that the album is available in digital form nowadays. Yes it is: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra 1940" (GHB Jazz Foundation, 2013)

Off the Mosaic box, I often spin The Melody Man (Alt Tk) (220 bpm). Superb sound.

An underplayed track from the Okeh/Vocalion/Columbia period (1939-1940) is Time's A-Wastin' (175 bpm), but it's hard to find in good quality. It's best heard on Master's of Jazz Vol. 5 but also OK on the Quintessence compilation from Fremeaux & Associes.

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#41 Post by lipi » Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:39 pm

Thanks for reminding me of that transcriptions disc, Anton! I hadn't listened to it in a while.

I particularly like "Battle Axe" and have DJ'ed it before, I believe.

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#42 Post by trev » Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:59 pm

My faves for DJing are:

Rose Room 1934, 155bpm
Black and Tan Fantasie 1934, 104bpm
Stomp It Off 1934, 187bpm
Jazznocracy 1934, 269 bpm
Four or Five Times 1935, 141bpm
Posin 1937, 181bpm
Le Jazz Hot 1939, 146bpm
Tain't What You Do 1939, 158bpm
Uptown Blues 1939, 94bpm
Lunceford Special 1939, 234bpm
Twenty Four Robbers 1941, 144bpm
Life Is Fine 1942, 146bpm
For Dancers Only (live) 1944, 176bpm

Many other great tracks, but these are the ones that get the most play.

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Re: Jimmie Lunceford

#43 Post by trev » Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:13 pm

I misread your request. Some less-played tunes might be:

Memphis Rag 1927, 241bpm
'Frisco Fog 1937, 174bpm - perhaps a bit challenging, but good for the right crowd
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down 1937, 149bpm
Well Alright Then 1939, 139bpm
Pistol Packin' Mama 1944, 172bpm
I Need A Lift 1945, 147bpm

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#44 Post by lipi » Mon Jun 01, 2015 10:03 pm

trev wrote: 'Frisco Fog 1937, 174bpm - perhaps a bit challenging, but good for the right crowd
Friday weather may require I play that one for Karl.
https://twitter.com/karlthefog

Thanks for all the suggestions!

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#45 Post by trev » Wed Jun 03, 2015 8:30 pm

lipi wrote:Thanks for all the suggestions!
Let us know how it goes. Maybe post a playlist?

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