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I was wondering if any of you arrange sets by year - do you, for example, do a '1935' set, or take account of the recording year in some other significant way?

(When ever I think about this sort of thing, I remember "The Golden Hour" from Simon Bates' morning programme on BBC Radio 1. The hour featured records and news items from a particular year, and you had to guess 'But what WAS the year?')

Haydn wrote:I was wondering if any of you arrange sets by year - do you, for example, do a '1935' set, or take account of the recording year in some other significant way?

(When ever I think about this sort of thing, I remember "The Golden Hour" from Simon Bates' morning programme on BBC Radio 1. The hour featured records and news items from a particular year, and you had to guess 'But what WAS the year?')

Haven't done a set by the year. But I do try to list the recording dates in file names.

don't ya love when that the CDDB has the CD release date instead of the recording dates

Peter and I once did a "battle" where we each did a song from a year then worked our way up. I think we started in 1928 and made it to the mid 40's.

I tossed around the idea of doing a yehoodi radio show where I'd play one swing/jazz song from each year, starting in the late twenties and ending 2008, so 80 songs.

I passed on this idea after thinking about the 80s. haha

Mr Awesomer wrote:Peter and I once did a "battle" where we each did a song from a year then worked our way up. I think we started in 1928 and made it to the mid 40's.

Cool idea for a battle. I have a playlist that pulls by decade. Sometimes i'll listen to itunes by decade.

CafeSavoy wrote:Cool idea for a battle. I have a playlist that pulls by decade. Sometimes i'll listen to itunes by decade.

haha, that's how I have my genre's set up in itunes so I can do exactly that. Every Jazz tune I have from a particular decade goes in a bucket: 20's Jazz, 30's Jazz, 40's Jazz and so on. When I'm in the mood for some 60's Jazz, I just select it as a genre and hit shuffle.

fredo wrote:I tossed around the idea of doing a yehoodi radio show where I'd play one swing/jazz song from each year, starting in the late twenties and ending 2008, so 80 songs.

I passed on this idea after thinking about the 80s. haha

Falty could lend you his Wolverines Big Band cd, I think it was recorded in the 80's.

CafeSavoy wrote:

fredo wrote:I tossed around the idea of doing a yehoodi radio show where I'd play one swing/jazz song from each year, starting in the late twenties and ending 2008, so 80 songs.

I passed on this idea after thinking about the 80s. haha

Falty could lend you his Wolverines Big Band cd, I think it was recorded in the 80's.

The Cotton Club soundtrack... featuring Bob Wilber's band.... quite good.

ok ok, I guess I could look at this idea again.

Wolverine Band and Bob Wilber are good suggestions. I have a little of both, so I guess I need to update my recording dates in my library.

and by update I mean adding in the recording dates for 80% of my files that don't have the recording dates in the tags currently.

Mr Awesomer wrote: The Cotton Club soundtrack... featuring Bob Wilber's band.... quite good.

Nice. I'll have to take a look at that. Looking at the credits, I see that a bunch of the artists also recorded alot for the Nagel Heyer label.

fredo wrote:ok ok, I guess I could look at this idea again.

Wolverine Band and Bob Wilber are good suggestions. I have a little of both, so I guess I need to update my recording dates in my library.

and by update I mean adding in the recording dates for 80% of my files that don't have the recording dates in the tags currently.

It's weird how some CDs show the year in iTunes, and others show nothing. The majority show nothing, so it's a case of manually entering the year. I do find it pretty rewarding - once you've done it, you can compare songs from different years and showing how the music changes year by year.

Haydn wrote:

fredo wrote:ok ok, I guess I could look at this idea again.

Wolverine Band and Bob Wilber are good suggestions. I have a little of both, so I guess I need to update my recording dates in my library.

and by update I mean adding in the recording dates for 80% of my files that don't have the recording dates in the tags currently.

It's weird how some CDs show the year in iTunes, and others show nothing. The majority show nothing, so it's a case of manually entering the year. I do find it pretty rewarding - once you've done it, you can compare songs from different years and showing how the music changes year by year.

You have to be careful with the year data. Oftentimes, they are the year the album was released and not the recording year.

CafeSavoy wrote:You have to be careful with the year data. Oftentimes, they are the year the album was released and not the recording year.

Yes, I know