At An Gadaí's request! Quite a few of mine will be clips from movies.
Favorite Songs from the 20s to the 40s
At An Gadaí's request! Quite a few of mine will be clips from movies.
Last edited by Myrnalene; 22 Oct 2009 at 07:30 PM.
This is one of my all time favourite songs. When You and I were Young, Maggie by John McCormack. A similar song in the same air is Nora, which was popular also at the time and is still sung today.
I'll second Old Man River.
from "On the Town"
I'll stop for now.
Dick Powell sings "I Only Have Eyes for You" in Dames
ETA: per AG's request, Both films are from 1934, although Night and Day was written in 1932.
Last edited by Myrnalene; 22 Oct 2009 at 08:32 PM.
What Exit beat me to Rhapsody in Blue.
Give me whiskey when I'm thirsty,Give me a cold beer when I'm dry, Give me root beer when I'm sickly, Give me a headstone when I die.
Let's from now on post the year that the song was released. The first I posted was from 1924 I think. Sound technology improved immensely over this time period. The invention of the electric microphone was a big milestone.
For a hauntingly depressing turn, some Billie Holiday.
Strange Fruit, 1939:
Gloomy Sunday, 1941:
Edited to add years.
Sons of the Pioneers - (1947)
Margaret Whiting - (1943)
Nat King Cole - "Straighten Up and Fly Right" (1943)
Second "La Vie en Rose"
There are a lot of songs I wanted to list but it turns out they're from the 50's.
One of the saddest Christmas songs of all time.
Last edited by Myrnalene; 22 Oct 2009 at 09:00 PM.
Mrynalene,
Your post reminded me of the saddest Christmas song IMO
I'll be Home for Christmas. The last line makes me cry everytime, "If only in my dreams."
They weren't singing....they were just honking.
Glee 2009
Christmas Eve, 2007, I was in O'Hare Airport in Chicago waiting to get a connecting flight to Cleveland. Lots of planes were delayed and whole families were waiting, hoping to get home to various parts of North America. There was a band playing at one stage that brightened people up no end. Later on, a young man working there with a beautiful jazz-style voice came around and sang at each gate, a different song. At our gate he sang this. Hearing that song and looking at families with their wee kids hoping to get home in time for Christmas was heartbreaking.Originally posted by jali
I think this one was featured in The Shawshank Redemption and would be their current most well know tune but the Inkspots were huge at the end of the '30s and during the '40s and had numerous hits.
The Inkspots - If I didn't Care.
The Inkspots - Do I Worry?
The Inkspots - Christopher Columbus
My dad used to have a load of InkSpots records (I always called them Stinkpots) My youngest daughter has them now.
One record that is missing from the collection is of Bing Crosby and some other geezer - I suspect Deano. My favourite from that one was Cool Water, which doesn't seem to show up on YouTube, hence the substitute.
Another was a Peter Dawson 10" LP containing among others:
I refuse to listen to the Robbie Williams version.
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