American and European dance bands and vocalists from the 1920s 1930s and 1940s.....

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This is not totally Golden Age or thereabouts ..a lil bit recent ...but

It IS the amazing Ella Fitzgerald... and the composer IS the great composer Cole Porter....and it's a fab song ....so here it is!






"So near and Yet So Far "

 

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This blues is only early, the 1960s.... "New Years Blues "by Lonnie Johnson (1960)

 

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Lonnie Johnson - Too late to cry baby

 

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Ginger Rogers - Let Yourself Go

 

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Jumpin Jive - Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers (from the movie "Stormy Weather")

 

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Cab Calloway's Hi De Ho - 1934

 

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Superbe Josephine! the Paris years,one of her songs from the 30s.



"C'est Lui" - Josephine baker

 

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Stormy Weather - Lena Horne

 

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Something a a little different LOL ...well.....still rather innocent but historical fun from the 1930s


Trixie Smith - Jack, I'm Mellow (1938)

 

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Picture Henry Ford without a car
Picture heaven's firmament without a star
Picture Fritzy Kreisler without a fiddle
Picture poor Philadelphia without a Biddle
Picture good cigars without Havana
Picture Huey Long without Louisiana
Mix 'em all together, and what have you got?
Just a picture of me without you

1935 Paul Whiteman - A Picture Of Me Without You (Ramona Davies & Ken Darby, vocal)

 

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"Don't Ever Leave Me!"

Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra 1929

love love this

 

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just for fun a 1920s Clara Bow make believe....from a girl from Germany or somewhere I think it looks great(Clara is the third photo)

 

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and then another American icon from the teens and early 1920s Miss Lillian Gish

Miss Lillian being the third photo

 

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yes Clara yes

 

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Rodgers & Hart - "Mountain Greenery" from "The Garrick Gaieties" - Susan Egan & Brian d'Arcy James

 

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and the real thing of course


Mountain Greenery by Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra, 1926

 

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Clara Bow - She's Got It

coopsgirl07

 

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Good Night all of you my brothers and sisters.....here and beyond....

with this song that I am listening to....incessantly.......until I close my eyes and go to sleep....

love you all ..... have you all in my mind



"Don't Ever Leave Me!"

 

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Buster Keaton in Music! Music! Music! by Teresa Brewer

Luv luv luv

 

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