Author: Grandma Cyd
December 12, 2015 Playlist
Frank Sinatra “Ring-A-Ding Ding” from Ring ‘A’ Ding! Frank Sinatra w/ Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra “We Three” from These Were Our Songs (1940) Al Bowlly “When We’re Alone (Penthouse Serenade)” from Top Hits Of the 1930s Frank Sinatra “The Read More …
December 5, 2015 Playlist
Les Brown/Starlighters “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm/Jing-A-Ling” from Christmas Cocktails 2 Jack Teagarden “At the Jazz Band Ball” from Father of Jazz Trombone Lionel Hampton “Ring Dem Bells” from Founder Of the Jazz Vibes: 1930-1944 Sammy Kaye Read More …
5 Sinatra Songs You Gotta Hear: “One For My Baby”
1. “One For My Baby” (click title to listen) From Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely (Capitol, 1959) I can’t remember if I bought the Only the Lonely album in my junior or senior year of high school, but I’m Read More …
5 Sinatra Songs You Gotta Hear: “Where Or When”
2. “Where or When” (click title to listen) From Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, 1966) As a general principle, I detest live albums. I see the reason for them, and sometimes they become a necessary evil because it’s the only Read More …
5 Sinatra Songs You Gotta Hear: “You’d Be So Easy To Love”
3. “You’d Be So Easy To Love” (click title to listen) From Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (Reprise, 1961) As many torch songs and albums as Frank commandeered throughout the 1950s, it’s kind of interesting that one of the most heartbreaking tracks he ever Read More …
5 Sinatra Songs You Gotta Hear: “You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me”
4. “You’re Getting To Be a Habit With Me” (click title to listen) From Songs For Swingin’ Lovers! (Capitol, 1956) If hipsters were more into Sinatra (and soon they will be, I promise you), Songs For Swingin’ Lovers! would be Read More …
5 Sinatra Songs You Gotta Hear: “Day By Day”
5. “Day By Day” (click title to listen) From Come Swing With Me! (Capitol, 1961) Come Swing With Me! is one of Sinatra’s last proper albums for Capitol (not counting, of course, the cobbled-together leftover albums that the label dummied Read More …
November 21, 2015 Playlist
Fats Waller “Winter Weather” from Remembering Christmas With the Big Bands Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five “I’m Gonna Gitcha” from The Legendary Male Vocalists Of Jazz (1925-1940) Ruth Etting “Body and Soul” from Ruth Etting (1926-1935), Vol. 2 [Remastered] [REQUEST] Phil Read More …
November 14, 2015 Playlist
Peggy Healy w/ Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra “It’s Only A Paper Moon” Harry Babbitt w/ Kay Kyser and His Orchestra “There’ll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs Of Dover” Glenn Miller and His Orchestra “Chatanooga Choo Choo” Artie Shaw Read More …
November 7, 2015 Playlist
Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me” from A Little Bird Told Me Billy Williams w/ Sammy Kaye & His Swing ‘n’ Sway Orchestra “Don’t Fence Me In” from A String Of Pearls: Great Stars Of the Read More …