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1920s-1940s music iMixes
For your interest, and to save you time in searching for swing & jazz on iTunes, I have put together 4 iMixes of 1920s - 40s swing & jazz (one iMix is made up of radio broadcasts). I have had these iMixes up for some months, and will be adding new iMixes monthly.

You can find the iMixes on the Music page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

OTR Swing Shows:

Also, to save you time and searching, I have put up 6 OTR Radio CDs on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Each week, I'll find and put up a new OTR CD from Amazon. Some titles you may have already seen or own, some, hopefully, will be new to you. (I know The Singing Detective CD that is currently up is not a radio broadcast - I put it up to help out a Phantom Dancer Show listener who was looking for it)

Hopefully, both these new iMix and OTR Swing & Jazz CD sites on http://www.gregpoppleton.com will be another convenient resource for you to find your favourite music.

Disclosure, Amazon: for each CD sold via the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com Amazon credits me 4% of the purchase price towards a 'Gift Certificate' (No money for me since I live outside of the US.) Should these paltry amounts ever build to anything I will use the Gift Certificates to buy new OTR Swing for the Phantom Dancer Radio Show, heard on volunteer operated community radio 2SER-FM & 2ser.com, Tuesdatys, 12 noon AEST (0100 GMT)

Cheers
Greg Poppleton

Cool! Thanx!

Cheers Eyeball,

Two more OTR swing show CD sets have been added:

1. Glenn Milller with Andrew Sisters. Chesterfield Broadcasts. WABC CBS NY 1939-1940. 2 disc set. I bought Disc #1 5 years ago second-hand. Brilliant swing band and vocals & great sound quality. 33 used & new from $9.87

2. Spotlight Bands. 2 CD set. 1943-44 Broadcasts by Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Louis Prima, Harry James, Jimmie Lunceford, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Les Brown. The Les Browwn tracks I bought on LP 20 years ago. Great sound quality. On CD should be better. 32 new & used form $13.94

6 OTR swing & jazz CD sets now listed all together on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Cheers
Greg

I love the Coca Cola Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands programs! Such high energy from everyone. I keep trying to get JS to transcribe that theme and add a chorus to stretch it out, but never no luck.

I think the earliest Spotlight Bands program I have is just before 12/7/41 before it morphed into "Victory" Parade. It is a Glenn Miller broadcast out of NYC.

It is interesting to hear how different bands interpret the same theme and essentially same arrangement. Most notably different is the CCVPoSB that was done by the Esquire All Stars from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House during the middle of the great Esquire All-Stars Jazz Concert in 1944, IIRC. They kind of jam the theme.

Hooray for Gil Newsome! A real announcer and MC.

Hey....Tommy Dorsey from Long Beach, CA!

and...fwiw...looks like only Louis Prima's big band is the only band on the 2 CD set that plays the CCVPoSB theme from start to finish....oh...and Lunceford.

Just one of those pieces of music I would like to hear played live.

That show was on 6 nights a week at its peak...live...from all different parts of the country...the logistics must have been staggering...a 1/2 hour live broadcast under one aegis.

Spotlight Bands certainly are high energy. They're my favourite shows from the early-mid 40s. After that they went into a three nights a week same three band routine: Harry James, Freddy Martin & Xavier Cugat. All great bands. But somehow the energy went.

I've also heard the Coca Cola theme as a waltz for a 1940 series called Singing Sam aimed at the generation born 1870-1900

But another high enegy show, that from vague memory (I heard it once after downloading a heavy artefacted squaking mp3) that also used the same Coca Cola theme was the 1930 series Coca Cola Top Notchers. I think the orchestra was Don Vorhees. The announcer was Graham (?) McNamee. Will look for it.

Cheers
Greg

"Right'choo are, Greg!"

Yesssss......something happens when they go to 3 nights a week. I think by that time WW2 had ended and all that primal energy dropped like a stone. Those huge audiences at war plants and military bases are gone. Bands are fading. Everything began to disappear and soon it was 1946.

Coca Cola sponsored a number of programs...Morton Downey for one....and the tune gets played as a waltz, like you said.

I have never seen a commercial studio recording of the theme by anyone...very possibly never recorded.

Yeah...I would like to hear that 1930 show.

I am under some impression from somewhere that Leonard Joy is the composer of the theme.

Another cool thing about the show is that even relatively unknown territory bands hit the high point on that show - the Jimmy Joy band out of Texas has a really good CC show with a hot version of "Blue Skies".

Jimmy Joy! Only know him from a Hindsight LP of radio transcriptions (which I've seen but never motivated enough to buy).
Indeed, that was the beauty of Spotlight Bands, the need for talent and was so voracious, and the show itself was so prestigious, that we now have a record of live performances by Orchestras outside of the standard canon of classic swing bands
The One Night Stand series is also rich pickings in this regard, continuing into the 1960s, possibly (the latest I've heard with Vincent Lopez and Andre Previn was from 1959)

Cheers
Greg

That broadcast is likely the best known Jimmy Joy stuff around. I think he did very little recording for major companies.

That show is perfectly paced with even the commercials not being too bothersome. The announcers do those commercials with a real sincere down home attitude..... "...the pause that refreshes!"

The ONS stuff is very good depending on who they have...stuff from everywhere...I have a good Bille Rogers on a 16" disc here at home. She was a first rate trumpeter.

If it were not for the AFRS engineers, we would have very little wartime material to listen to.

I read somwhere that they used to dub those discs by hand from the broadcasts they were monitoring and recording.

Hi,

Conversing with Eyeball yesterday got me thinking about OTR Swing & Jazz CDs and their availability.

So I have now uploaded a OTR Swing & Radio page

24 CDs of swing, jazz, some early rock'n'roll - and for Eyeball a CD of swingin' 60s Coca Cola spots - all radio broadcasts

For the moment they're all from Amazon. (Read my disclosure at the top of this thread)

Later I'll put in Cds from other sources, as well as new Amazon finds, and move the iMixes onto the page as well.

The idea is to cut down hunting time for those of you who like the high energy sound of swing bands playing live and over the wireless.

Also, although I'm not familiar will all the CDs, 30 years of buying this music for myself has taught me to differentiate between quality product - where the sound quality is good and for the most part the broadcasts are complete - and badly edited, muffled beer coasters put out by the Dodgy Brothers!

Of course I can't always be 100% right. And many of the selections I have put up have samples. But I may save a lot of tears.

Certainly, it's the shop I've always wanted.

The address is http:www.gregpoppleton.com. Click on OTR Cds top right of home page in the header.

Cheers
Greg

Whoops!

The adress is http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Clock on OTR Cds. You'll see it on the right side of the nav bar, top of page

Cheers
Greg

Six new CD titles are now available on the OTR CD page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

25. Benny Goodman Vol 1 Congress Hotel 1935 NBC 2 Broadcasts

26. Benny Goodman Vol 2 Congress Hotel 1935 NBC 2 Broadcasts

27. Benny Goodman Vol 3 Congress Hotel 1935 NBC 2 Broadcasts

28. Boyd Raeburn 1946 Radio Transcriptions 24 Tracks

29. Duke Ellington Legendary Fargo Concert 1940 46 Tracks

30. Skinnay Ennis 1957 Radio Transcriptions + 1956 NBC Bandstand 20 Tracks

Cheers
Greg Poppleton

OTR Swing & jazz CDs now up = 36

New titles include European Swing by Teddy Stauffer (Swiss band in Germany - 1936-37) & Alix Combelle, paris (1937-42)

Also 2 broadcasts of the Chanber Music Society of Lower Basin Street with Benny carter, Dinah Shore & W.C. Handy who talks about his music, opportunity and being the son of a slave.

2 Spike Jones Spotlight Revue Shows

2 WNBC NY Broadcasts by Duke Ellington from Birdland celebrating 25 years of the Duke & 25 Years of NBC - two top shows!

Cheers
Greg

phantom dancer wrote:1920s-1940s music iMixes
For your interest, and to save you time in searching for swing & jazz on iTunes, I have put together 4 iMixes of 1920s - 40s swing & jazz (one iMix is made up of radio broadcasts). I have had these iMixes up for some months, and will be adding new iMixes monthly.

You can find the iMixes on the Music page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com

Doesn't work for me. I get the message:

"We are unable to find iTunes on your computer", although I do have it.

How can I search for the iMixes on the iTunes store?

phantom dancer wrote:1920s-1940s music iMixes
For your interest, and to save you time in searching for swing & jazz on iTunes, I have put together 4 iMixes of 1920s - 40s swing & jazz (one iMix is made up of radio broadcasts). I have had these iMixes up for some months, and will be adding new iMixes monthly.

When trying to view your iMixes in iTunes, I get the following error: "The item you've requested is not currently available in the US store."

phantom dancer wrote:Also, to save you time and searching, I have put up 6 OTR Radio CDs on the Radio Show page of http://www.gregpoppleton.com. Each week, I'll find and put up a new OTR CD from Amazon. Some titles you may have already seen or own, some, hopefully, will be new to you. (I know The Singing Detective CD that is currently up is not a radio broadcast - I put it up to help out a Phantom Dancer Show listener who was looking for it)

Great resource! Thanks for putting it together.

Jesse