Fri, 28 November 2008
More number songs including: Dinner at Eight, Five Foot Two, You Are the One and Three O' Clock in the Morning. Artist include: Gene Austin, Hazel Scott, Bing Crosby and Bem Selvin. |
Sat, 22 November 2008
Songs with numbers in the titles; plus pointless trivia about numbers. Songs include: Tea For Two, The Fives, I'm In Seventh Heaven and Three Little Words.
Artists include: Ethyl Waters, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Marion Harris and Wingy Manone. |
Sat, 15 November 2008
Songs about stars. Songs include: Dancing Under the Stars, Come Down My Evening Star, I Saw Stars and Stardust. Performers include: Lillian Russel, Willie the Lion Smith, Bing Crosby and Cab Calloway.
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Sat, 8 November 2008
The musicians who brought boogie woogie into mainstream popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. Pianists include: Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Hazel Scott and Jimmy Yancey. Tunes include: Boogie Woogie Prayer, Bass Goin Crazy, Hazel's Boogie and Movin the Boogie. |
Sat, 1 November 2008
Early boogie woogie pianists including: Jimmy Blythe, Cow Cow Davenport, Pinetop Smith and Romeo Nelson. Tunes include: Pinetop's Boogie Woogie, Chicago Stomp, Cow Cow Blues and Head Rag Hop. |