Favoriting Surface Noise with Joe McGasko: Playlist from September 30, 2008 Favoriting

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Favoriting September 30, 2008: 78: Reds and Blues

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments
Fred Astaire with Johnny Green  Isn't This a Lovely Day?   Favoriting   Brunswick  1935  78   
Frances Williams  Hey Young Fella, Close Your Umbrella   Favoriting Encores from the 30s (1930-1935)  Epic  early 60s  LP  Recorded 1933 
Harold Arlen  Stormy Weather   Favoriting All My Own Work: 17 Great Songwriters Perform  ASV/Living Era  2001  CD  Recorded 1933 
Honey Duke and His Uke  Oh Boy! How It Was Raining   Favoriting   Harmony  1926  78   
Cliff Edwards with the Brox Sisters  Singin' in the Rain   Favoriting Singin' in the Rain Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition  Turner/Rhino  2002  CD  Recorded 1929 
 
Barbecue Bob  We Sure Got Hard Times Now   Favoriting The Great Depression  Sony/Legacy  1993  CD  Recorded 1930 
Lane Hardin  Hard Times Blues   Favoriting Desperate Blues  Dust to Digital  2006  CD  Recorded 1935 
Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah  35 Depression   Favoriting Poor Man's Heaven  RCA/Bluebird  2003  CD  Recorded 1935 
King Solomon Hill  Times Has Done Got Hard   Favoriting 1920s Blues Classics  Blues Images  2004  CD  Recorded 1932 
 
Sam Mayo  Things Are Worse in Russia   Favoriting Sprigs of Time: 78's from the EMI Archive  Honest Jons  2008  CD   
Kiriloff's Russian Balalaika Orchestra  Lezginka (National Dance)   Favoriting   Victor  early 20s  78   
Orch. of the People's Commissariat of Defense, USSR  Red Moscow   Favoriting   Unknown  early 50s  78   
Peter Lorre, Joseph Buloff, Jules Munchen  Siberia   Favoriting Silk Stockings soundtrack  MGM  1972  LP  Recorded 1957 
V. Klodkin and A. Prokoshin  Who Knows HIm?   Favoriting   Unknown  early 50s  78   
Russian Symphonic Choir  Volga Boatmen Song   Favoriting   Victor  1926  78   
 
Alvino Rey and his Orchestra  Nighty Night   Favoriting The Great Band Era  RCA Custom  early 60s  LP  REcorded 1941 


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Listener comments!

  7:02pm
Plinky:

first comment woo hoo
  7:02pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

First comment - yay, rah!
  7:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

OK...It was the second comment. Anyway, thanks for bringing music from another era into our homes and computers.
  7:07pm
Joe:

My pleasure!
  7:14pm
Sean Daily:

Fifth comment! Woo hoo!
  7:16pm
Sean Daily:

It's funny that the song "Singing in the Rain" was recorded in 1929. The MOVIE "Signing in the Rain" was set at the dawn of the talkie era in Hollywood... which was right around 1929.
  7:29pm
Joe:

Not a coincidence, actually!
  7:29pm
Plinky:

Lane hardin is rockin' my shit
  7:45pm
Scott:

Gosh, this is a wonderful selection.
Thanks DJ Joe
  7:48pm
Sean Daily:

This Siberia song ROCKS.
  7:51pm
Amanda:

Hi Joe! I'm so sorry I missed the first two sets - can't wait to catch up. Hard times indeed, but when you're on our happy days are here again.
  7:54pm
Joe:

How sweet!!
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