Monday, March 19, 2012

The Elgins Live Set!

The Elgins:

Great live performance by the Elgins. They sound so authentic, every time I show people their songs, they have a hard time believing that they're a modern band! They are inspired by the greats, but add their own spin too. 

Their facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Elgins/206295459387445
The rest of the show was some Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Willie Mctell, and Big Joe Williams

Monday, March 5, 2012

3.5.12 - the 1930s

1. Freddie Martin & His Orchestra - Close Your Eyes - vocal by Elmer Feldkamp
2.. Lou Gold & His Orchestra - Snuggled On Your Shoulder - vocal by Pinkie Pear
3. Johnny Green's Orchestra - A Fine Romance
4. Lou Gold and His Orchestra - Let That Be A Lesson To You - vocal by Marty Golden - recorded 2/1932
5. Henry Busse and His Orchestra - It Had To Be You 
6. Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra - Riptide - vocals by Lew Sherwood and The DeMarco Sisters

7. Tampa Red & the Chicago Five  Rock It In Rhythm
8. Ozzie Nelson - Never In A Million Years
9. Adrian Rollini - Who Walks In

10. Joe Sanders - I'll Never Let You Go
11. Wingy Manone and his Band - Vine Street Blues
12.. Wingy Manone Orchestra - Ochi Chornya
13. Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Jack Teagarden - After You've Gone
14. Lee Morse - In the Hush of the Night
15. Nina Mae McKinney with Eubie Blake - Everything I Got Belongs to You
16. Betti Mays - Crazy Riffin
17. Julie Lee - Kansas City Boogie
18. Dolores Brown  with the Polka Dots - 20-99
19. Valaida Snow - Until the Real Thing Comes Along
20. Evelyn Preer - It Takes a Good Woman to Keep a Good Man At Home
21. Edna Mae Harris - Taint No Good

Monday, February 27, 2012

2.27.12

Lightnin' Hopkins: - Nothin' But the Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - Don't Think Cause You're Pretty
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Boogie

Muddy Waters - Rock Me
Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Big JOe Williams, Sonny Terry - Wimmin from Coast to Coast
T-Bone Walker - I'm Gonna Find My Baby
Lil Son Jackson - Ticket Agent Blues
Memphis Slim - How Long
Sonny Terry - Telephone Blues
Son House - Death Letter Blues
Big Joe Williams - Pearly Mae
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Livin' With the Blues
Roy Brown - Let the Four Winds Blow
Memphis Slim - all This Piano Boogie

T-Bone Walker - Call it Stormy Monday, but tuesday's Just as Bad
Lil Son Jackson - Wondering Blues
Muddy Waters - Walkin' Thru the Park
Sonny Terry - whoopin Blues
Big JOe Williams - Everybody's Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone

Howlin Wolf - How Many More Years
Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine Below Zero
SBW - Who'se Gonna Take Care of You?
Little Brother Montgomery - Memphis Blues
Big Maceo Merriweather - Eloise
Lonnie Johnson - Got the Blues For the West End

Monday, February 13, 2012

2.13.12 - the Valentine's Day Show

Helen Forrest - Mad About the Boy

the Ink Spots - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
Mildred Bailey - Don't Take Your Love From Me
Dinah Shore - Skylark

Maxine Sullivan - When Your Lover Has Gone
Mildred Bailey - More Than You Know
Martha Tilton - These Foolish Things
Betty Hutton - It Had to Be You

Annette Hanshaw - What Wouldn't I Do For That Man
Boswell Sisters - Blue Moon
June Christy - Willow Weep For Me
Connie Boswell - The Nearness of you
Jelly Roll Morton - Hesitation Blues
Lee Wiley - But Not For Me
Woody Herman Orch. - Laura

Frankie Carle & his Orch. - A Little On the Lonely Side
Sam Lanin's Ensamble - Hello Beautiful
Blue Barron - Are You Lonesome Tonight
Roy Fox & his Orchestra, Al Bowlly - Kiss by Kiss
Jo Stafford and Dick Haymes - Bewitched

Helen Forrest - I've Got a Crush On You
Kitty Kallen - The Wonder of You

Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes - It Had To Be You
Gene Austin - Ramona
Russ Columbo - Goodnight, Sweetheart

Cliff Edwards - I'll See You In my Dreams
Boswell sisters - Baby
Lee Morse - Something In the Night
Vera Lynn - You'll Never Know
Lil Hardin Armstrong - Safely Locked Up In My Heart
Mabel Lee - Baby Don't Go Away from Me

Una Mae Carlisle - You Know Me

Monday, February 6, 2012

2.6.12

Mississippi John Hurt - Baby What's Wrong With You
Texas Alexander - Corn Bread Blues
Memphis Minnie - Too Late
Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues
Jesse Fuller - Cincinnati Blues

Skip James - Sickbed Blues
Lightnin' Hopkins - Devil Is Watching You
Son House - Mississippi County Farm Blues
Bumble Bee Slim - Rough, Ragged Blues
Blind Boy Fuller - Lost Lover Blues
Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell -Memphis Town

Big Joe Williams - Mean Stepfather Blues
                 Footage from the American Folk Blues Festival - wow, what a time and place to be!!
Buddy Moss - Stinging Bull Nettle
Charlie Patton - Moon Goin Down
Rev. Gary Davis - Hesitation Blues
Georgia Cotton Pickers - She Looks So God
Lonnie Johnson - Got the Blues For the West End

Georgia White - Alley Boogie
Josephine Baker - Blue Skies
Bessie Smith - Yellowdog Blues
Rosetta Howard - How Long Daddy
Alberta Hunter - Fine & Mellow
Lizzie Miles with Jelly Roll Morton - I Hate a Man Like You

Emma Lewis - I Don't Let One Many Worry Me
Etta Baker - Carolina Breakdown
Elizabeth Cotton - Buck Dance
Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Guitar Blues 
Memphis Minnie & Joe McCoy - Instrumental
Lemuel Turner - Jake Bottle Blues

Memphis Slim - Born With the Blues
Big Bill Broonzy - CC Rider
Leadbelly - Come On Irene

Monday, January 16, 2012

1.16.12 Urban Blues


Charles Brown - Trouble Blues
Louis Jordan - Buzz Me Bby
Otis Blackwell - Please Help Me Find My Way Home
Andrew Tibbs - Drinkin' Ink Splink
Little Willie Jackson - Who Put the Lights Out
Little Willie Jackson - St. Louis Blues
Big Joe Turner - Oo Ouch Stop
Percy Mayfield - Life Is Suicide

Lavern Baker - Tweedle Dee
Juke Boy Bonner - Rock With Me Baby
Johnny Fuller - First Stage of the Blues
Jimmy McCracklin - When I'm Gone
Saunders King - S.K. Blues, part 1
Lil Son Jackson - Charley Cherry

Roy Milton - Hop, Skip, Jump
T-Bone Walker - West Side Baby
T-Bone Walker - Bobby Sox Blues
Lil Son Jackson - Charley Cherry
J.W. Walker - Sitting Here Wondering
Lester Williams - Wintertime Blues

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Nina Mae McKinney with Eubie Blake and his Orchestra - Everything I Got Belongs To You
Betti Mays - Crazy Riffin
Julie Lee - Kansas City Boogie
Dolores Brown with the Polka Dots - 20-99 Blues
Valaida Snow - Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Evelyn Preer - It Takes A Good Woman To Keep A Good Man At Home
Connie Boswell - Chasing Shadows

Edna Mae Harris - Taint No Good
                      such a cute music video!!
Una Mae Carlisle - I'm A good Woman

Una Mae Carlise - Walkin By the River
Mabel Lee - The Cat Can't Dance
Dorothy Dandridge - I Got Rhythm
International Sweethearts of Rhythm - She's Crazy With the Heat/ Jump Children
Eunice Wilson - Unknown Title

Elisabeth Welch - Drums In My Heart
Hadda Brooks - That's My Desire
Hadda Brooks - When I Leave the World Behind
Adelaide Hall - I wanna be loved

Monday, December 26, 2011

12.26.11 - the 40's


Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
Sonny Boy Williamson - Nine Below Zero
Big Bill Broonzy - I Feel So Good

Lonnie Johnson - Chicago Blues
Albert Ammons - Albert's Special Boogie Woogie
Willie Dixon - Burying Ground
Big Maceo - Chicago Breakdown
Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night

Sonny Boy Williamson - I Cross My Heart
Josh White - Blood Red River
Josh White - There's A Man Goin Around Taking Names
Doctor Clayton - Pearl Harbor Blues
Robert Nighthawk - My Sweet Lovin' Woman
Curtis Jones - Tin Pan Alley
Robert Petway - Hollow Log Blues
Charlie Segar - Key to the Highway
Howlin Wolf - I've Got a Woman
Little Walter - Blues With a Feeling

Homer Harris - Atomic Bomb Blues
St. Louis Jimmy Oden - Dog House Blues
Big bill Broonzy - Saturday Evening Blues
Eddie Boyd  - Blue Monday Blues





Eddie Lang, born Salvatore Massaro in Philadelphia, was the son of an instrument maker. He had a very active musical career, collaborating with many other famous musicians, such as Lonnie Johnson, Joe Venuti, and 


Eddie Lang - Instrumental
Eddie Lang (Blind Willie Dunn) and Lonnie Johnson - Deep Minor Rhythm Stomp
Eddie Lang - There'll Be Some Changes Made
Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson - Blue Room
Eddie Lang - April Kisses
Eddie Lang - Perfect
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Pink Elephants
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress - Pickin' My Way
Eddie Lang - Stringin' the Blues
Eddie Lang - Wild Cat