Hope Your Pride Ain't Raggy

From the Salvation Army comes our first selection:

American Pride - Sixteen Stirring Patriotic Themes

01. America the Beautiful (3:19)

02. Yankee Doodle Boy (1:34)

03. Medal of Honor (3:45)

04. Pioneer Spirit (4:16)

05. Simple Gifts (3:16)

06. Stars and Stripes Forever (1:48)

07. Battle Hymn of the Republic (3:04)

08. Dixie (4:38)

09. When Johnny Comes Marching Home (3:06)

10. American Dream (4:06)

11. Grand Old Flag (1:41)

12. Hail to the Chief (1:18)

13. My Country 'Tis of Thee (1:28)

14. Yankee Doodle (1:41)

15. Old Glory (2:59)

16. Star Spangled Banner (1:59)

This begins as an OK synth panorama from 1998.  A sense of humor and/or a little spriteliness is detected, and welcome.  A couple of tracks, like 3 and 4, might be originals.  But they are sufficiently tropish to work … until we get to the vocals on “Battle Hymn,” a track which runs right over the edge into cynical sentimentalism for me.

Unfortunately, the overacting comes out again in the oh-so-flamboyant vocals for the last track, our National Anthem.  Just like a political speech, passion should be used sparingly, not vomited all over the carpet.

***

Peabody Ragtime Ensemble - Ragtime Band

01. Solace (A Mexican Serenade) (4:23)

02. Something Doing - a Ragtime Two-Step (3:34)

03. Augustan Club Waltz (4:27)

04. Heliotrope Bouquet - a Slow Drag Two-Step (3:51)

05. Pleasant Moments - a Ragtime Waltz (3:06)

06. Stoptime Rag (2:07)

07. Daddy Won't You Please Come Home (3:48)

08. Troublesome Ivories - a Ragtime Rag (2:39)

09. My Handyman Ain't Handy No More (4:07)

10. Baltimore Todolo (2:52)

11. Memories of You (3:55)

12. Poor Katie Red (Eubie's Slow Drag) (4:22)

This is some pretty good music, presented in a crummy way on cassette in 1984.  That is, one of the songs on side 2 (Track 10 in this file) wasn't even listed on the cassette liner!

See you Monday for the final week in our salute to our fine nation.

  

Happy or Manic -- Your Choice!

It's a 1987 release.

01. Let Me Call You Sweetheart / Some of These Days / Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (3:36)

02. The Bantam Step (2:34)

03. Fluffy Ruffles (2:31)

04. Good Gravy Rag (2:17)

05. Triangle Jazz Blues (1:31)

06. Piano Tuners Walk Away Rag (3:06)

07. Maple Leaf Rag (3:14)

08. Take Me Out to the Ballgame (2:22)

09. There's a Tavern in the Town (1:11)

10. Dill Pickles Rag (1:54)

11. Put Your Arms Around Me Honey / Come Josephine in My Flying Machine / Chinatown, My Chinatown (3:35)

12. The Band Played On / East Side West Side / Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie (3:08)

13. At a Georgia Camp Meeting (2:39)

14. Hello My Baby / In the Good Old Summertime / My Gal Sal (3:49)

15. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (2:02)

16. I'm A Yankee Doodle Dandy / Shine on Harvest Moon / By the Light of the Silvery Moon (2:41)

I assume we reach the count of 26 by adding the medley elements?  I didn't try.

This is way too artificial to me!  We got an aggressively semi-tuned piano, and some very cheesy sound effects via wood blocks, wheezing whistles, and the like.  Something played bass in a couple of cuts, sounding to me like an oompahing tuba.

All I can say is, if this is good as your memories get, I pity you.

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, if you haven't been checked into a rubber room after listening!

  

He da Man!

The RAGTIME man, that is!

For our last installment of Things I Love, here is some socko, boffo ragtime fun!

01. Rose Leaf Rag (5:36)

02. The Cannon Ball (2:27)

03. Ragtime Nightingale (4:19)

04. Dill Pickles (2:20)

05. The Entertainer (5:08)

06. Hilarity Rag (3:15)

07. Search-Light Rag (4:06)

08. Grace And Beauty (3:32)

09. Grizzly Bear Rag (3:03)

10. Wild Cherries Rag (3:00)

11. American Beauty (4:06)

12. Fig Leaf Rag (5:04)

Cripple Creek, a Ragtime Suite for Piano

13. The Imperial Rag (2:44)

14. The Anchoria Leland (5:31)

15. The Vindicator (2:35)

16. Dr. Jackpot (2:33)

17. Poverty Gulch (3:13)

18. Old Mortality (4:57)

It's a 1986 release.

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, we're gonna spend the month of March harkening back to one o' my ancestral homegrounds.  Can ya guess which one?

  

Elite Never Sounded So Sweet

This here's a 2003 release of piano-roll recordings of ragtime played by Scott Joplin and others.

01. Maple Leaf Rag (3:03)

02. Ole Miss Rag (2:46)

03. Magnetic Rag (3:08)

04. Elite Syncopations (3:24)

05. Country Club (3:27)

06. Paragon Rag (3:23)

07. Eugenia (3:56)

08. Cleopha (3:37)

09. A Real Slow Drag (3:41)

10. Scott Joplin's New Rag (3:29)

11. Leola: Two-Step (3:17)

12. Lily Queen (3:20)

13. The Chrysanthemum (3:39)

14. Heliotrope Bouquet (3:13)

15. Reflection Rag (3:43)

16. Silver Swan Rag: Ragtime Two-Step (3:07)

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

And as always, 

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday, friends!  Be thankful for musical performance and the nation whose imperfect history has allowed it!

  

Grand Ragtime from an American Master

This is a 1973 album cadged from my mom.

01. On the Lamb (2:53)

02. Burnt Fingers (4:47)

03. Sleight of Hand (3:14)

04. Scott Joplin's Victory (7:45)

05. Ragtime Turtledove (3:59)

06. Behemoth Two-step (3:42)

07. Onion Skin Rag (2:32)

08. Queen of Sheba Slow Drag and Stomp (5:35)

09. Sleepwalker's Shuffle (3:56)

10. Nightmare Fantasy Rag - A Night on Rag Mountain (9:03)

11. Morning Reveries (4:14)

Albright fell into the ragtime business and helped popularize it in solo and group recordings.  Another of his releases is here.

Albright Plays Albright

You'll just eat it up!  My favorite is the staggering Track 10.  What's yours?

See you Monday for some more fun!

  

Oh, Irving!

I bought this 1989 release on cassette. Another buncha fun Amercanski musics.

01. Bing Crosby and Al Jolson - Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:59)

02. Linda Ronstadt and The Nelson Riddle Orchestra - What'll I Do (4:04)

03. Fred Astaire - Puttin' on the Ritz (2:10)

04. Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Cheek to Cheek (3:05)

05. The Mills Brothers - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (3:13)

06. Teresa Brewer - All by Myself (4:33)

07. Ethel Merman - There's No Business Like Show Business (2:29)

08. The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, and Dick Haymes - Anything You Can Do (3:01)

09. Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Home Again Blues (2:57)

10. Al Jolson - Easter Parade (2:54)

11. Bing Crosby - White Christmas (3:04)

12. Kate Smith - God Bless America (2:02)

Berlin 100

Ya can't get any more American than that last track!  See you Monday the 31st for the last of this year's JULY SPOCKEBRATION!

  

Very Smooth Ragtime

As any population ages, there's always a market for the raw music or media of their youth.  It often happens that, although the once-rebellious youth have grown up to own things (like the intellectual properties being marketed), the music or what-have-you in question becomes a bit ... shall we say ... tamed.

Thus you might have AC/DC playing on an oldies station, the way scandalous 1960s songs have been pablum-ized into instrumental background music at your local Braum's.

Here's a concrete aural example.  Ragtime was, originally, well -- ragged.

01. Ain't Misbehavin' (2:45)

02. I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (2:42)

03. Who's Sorry Now (2:50)

04. All of Me (3:04)

05. After You've Gone (2:13)

06. Maple Leaf Rag (1:59)

07. You Made Me Love You (3:38)

08. St. Louis Blues / Birth of the Blues (4:39)

09. Harbor Lights (2:49)

10. My Blue Heaven (2:14)

11. For Me and My Gal (3:19)

12. Three O'Clock in the Morning (2:39)

13. Danny Boy / My Wild Irish Rose / When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (5:22)

14. Dinah (2:03)

15. Alexander's Ragtime Band (2:38)

16. Entertainer Rag (2:43)

17. Always (I'll Be Loving You) (2:54)

18. Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (2:21)

19. It Had to Be You (2:42)

This stuff is so relentlessly cheerful it's manic!  -- or maybe maniacal?

Rod Miller - Ragtime

You tell me!  See you Monday.

  

Inadequately Tonked

These selections are such favorites to the record company that the record company couldn't even get the song names right!

01. Swanee River (2:30)

02. In the Mood (3:06)

03. Little Brown Jug (2:37)

04. The Entertainer (2:27)

05. Ain't She Sweet (3:50)

06. Maple Leaf Rag (2:49)

07. The Entertainer's Rag (2:27)

08. The Beer Barrel Polka (3:43)

The Honky-Tonks - Piano Favorites

Here's the straight skinny:

Track 1 is “Swanee, How I love Ya” not “Way Down upon the Swanee River.”

Track 3 has “Baby Face” and “Comin’ Through the Rye” before it gets to “Little Brown Jug” about 1:15, before moving on to “Woody Woodpecker Song.”

Track 4 was “The Intertainer” in the CD-text originally encoded in the disc.

Track 5 has “Put Another Nickel in the Nickelodeon” about halfway through, and becomes “Ain’t She Sweet” at 2:20 and “Has Anybody Seen my Gal” at 3:00

Last track begins with “Abba Dabba Honeymoon,” then the title song, then “Yessir That’s My Baby” then “Toot-Toot-Tootsie Goodbye” and “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.”

I might even have missed an interpolated song or two!  Let me know ...  Until then, see you Thursday!

   

It's a Rough House Tonight!

According to this 1953 album, anyway.

01. Somebody Stole My Gal (2:09)

02. The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (2:07)

03. Dardanella (2:44)

04. Twelfth Street Rag (2:17)

05. Boogie Woogie Rag (2:13)

06. Rattlesnake Rag (2:41)

07. Lou's Blues (2:26)

08. Minute Waltz Boogie (2:23)

09. Narcissus (2:37)

10. The Darktown Strutters' Ball (2:23)

11. Kitten on the Keys (1:59)

12. Hors d'Oeuvre (1:59)

You'll remember some of these tunes from old Warner Bros cartoons or other places.  It's a fast half-hour you won't count as wasted!

Rough-House Piano

More rough stuff on Thursday!

  

... And You Can Roar with Them!

 

It's a 1956 LP.  The Discogs page.

01. Bedelia (2:49)
02. Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (2:06)
03. The Sheik of Araby (2:58)
04. Goody, Goody (2:20)
05. The Bowery (2:48)
06. Deep River (1:36)
07. Varsity Drag (1:39)
08. Ballin' the Jack (2:50)
09. Give My Regards to Broadway (2:03)
10. Rings on Her Fingers (2:20)
11. Dixie (2:54)
12. East Side, West Side (4:06)

It's kind of funny to me that they've got a tiger on the cover, but this record doesn't contain "Tiger Rag."

The Chicago High Lights - The Roaring 20s
 

See you Thursday, cats!

  

instant Home Movies! Just Supply the Movie

It's a 1989 cassette which I just enjoy the heck out of.  It's a mélange of all kinds of "movie music," so that you could play it in the background while showing your home videos.

Really!

"The Studio Fanfares": 

01 - Fox Fanfare (Comic Version) 

02 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Fanfare 

03 - Universal Pictures Fanfare 

04 - Selznick International Pictures Fanfare 

05 - Warner Bros. Fanfare 

06 - 20th Century Fox Fanfare (w/CinemaScope Extension) 

"Overture Music": 

07 - Street Scene 

"Intermission Music": 

08 - Holiday For Strings 

09 - Fiddle-Faddle 

10 - The Syncopated Clock 

"Music For '40s Films": 

11 - Laura 

12 - Since You Went Away (Main Title) 

13 - Now, Voyager - Love Scene/Finale 

"Music For '50s Films": 

14 - Peyton Place 

15 - A Summer Place 

"Music For Westerns": 

16 - The Big Sky 

17 - High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) 

"Music For Sci-Fi Films": 

18 - The Thing 

(Prelude; Flying Saucer Under The Ice Melting Sequence; The Hand; Plasma I; 

Plasma II; The Growing Plants; The Thing On The Walkway; Electrocution) 

"Music For Silents": 

19 - Kitten on the Keys 

20 - Fanfare & Big Chase 

For example, Track 1 is from the silly The World's Greatest Lover, and is supposed to lead off your favorite silly home video.  And so forth.

Home Video Album

Well, that's it for this unofficial month of soundtracks.  As somebody sang, "See you in September ..."  That's Thursday, campers!
  

How Sweet ARE They?

 Only you san say for sure, after listening to this fun collection of rags.

It's a 1982 cassette.

01 - Mississippi Rag Two-Step - William H Krell
02 - Gladiolus Rag - Scott Joplin
03 - Euphonic Sounds A Syncopated Two-Step - Scott Joplin
04 - Ragtime Nightingale - Joseph F Lamb
05 - Peace and Plenty Rag - James Scott
06 - The Charleston Rag - Eubie Blake
07 - Slippery Elm Rag - H Clarence Woods
08 - Dizzy Fingers - Zef Confrey
09 - Sweet Sixteenths - William Albright
10 - Brass Knuckles - William Bolcom and William Albright

Sweet Sixteenths 

See you on Thursday!

  

MA-167 - They All Played the Maple Leaf Rag

It's my updated version of an LP from a Salvation Army thrift store.

The original LP is on the Herwin label and variously dated circa 1971-1973. It had 15 selections. I removed one or two of very bad quality and added about that many more. I also sorted them in chronological order by recording date.

01 - United States Marine Band - 1906
02 - Vess L Ossman w/Prince's Band - 1907
03 - Scott Joplin (Piano Roll) - 1916
04 - WC Handy Orchestra - 1917
05 - Willie Eckstein - 1923
06 - Halfway House Orchestra - 1925
07 - Harry Snodgrass - 1926
08 - Vera Guilaroff - 1926
09 - Bix Beiderbecke - 1928
10 - Bechet's New Orleans Feetwarmers - 1932
11 - Earl Hines & Orchestra - 1934
12 - Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra - 1936
13 - Jelly Roll Morton (New Orleans Style) - 1938
14 - Jelly Roll Morton (St Louis Style) - 1938
15 - Hank Duncan - 1944
16 - James P Johnson - 1946
17 - Don Ewell - 1949
18 - Ralph Sutton w/Condon's Band - 1950
19 - Joe “Fingers” Carr and His Ragtime Band - 1956
20 - Willie “The Lion” Smith - 1959
21 - The Spotnicks - 1964
22 - Eubie Blake - 1969
23 - E Power Biggs - 1973
24 - Richard Zimmerman - 1974
25 - Dick Hyman - 1975
26 - Jo Ann Castle - 1977
27 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 1978
28 - Trittico Trio - 1995
29 - Dan Sindel - 2007

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5duussuk42km/MA-167.rar

See you on Monday!

   

She's a Snooky One!

I bet Snooky was feisty, back in the day!

01. Listen to the Mockingbird (1:46)
02. Mystery of His Way (1:31)
03. Coming Home (1:25)
04. When It's Springtime in the Rockies (1:41)
05. Snooky's Waltz (2:16)
06. I'll Be There If Ever You Want Me (1:31)
07. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (2:09)
08. In the Mood / Huckle Buck (1:55)
09. You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven / Old Faithful / Spinning Wheel (2:53)
10. Under the Double Eagle (2:11)
11. I Saw the Light / He Set Me Free (1:54)
12. Death Valley Waltz (1:36)
13. Las Gaviotes (1:44)
14. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone (1:39)
15. Tavern in the Town (2:03)
16. The Entertainer (2:05)
17. Play a Simple Melody (1:23)
18. Playmate (1:54)
19. Zacatecas (1:45)
20. Before the Next Teardrop Falls (2:22)
21. Down in the Little Green Valley (1:46)
22. Tight or Wrong (1:29)
23. My Beautiful Annabel Lee (1:52)
24. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (1:55)
25. Wreck of Old 97 (1:37)
26. There's a Goldmine in the Sky (2:02)
27. Enjoy Yourself, It's Later than You Think (1:56)
28. Whispering (1:33)
29. Whispering Light (2:37)
30. When the Golden Leaves Begin to Fall (2:01)
31. Spanish Two Step (2:07)
32. Old Love Letters (1:51)
33. Weeping Heart (2:07)
34. Lily Dale (1:55)
35. Chiapanecas (1:34)
36. Harbor Lights (2:27)
37. Johnson Rag (1:35)

38. I Love Little Willy (1:51) 

39. Moonlight on the Colorado (1:53)

It's rollicking, barrelhouse-type stuff.  Have at it!

Snooky Keller - Music Preservation Project

See you on Thursday, snookums!

  

The Honky-Tonker in the Del

It's a 1961 LP.  The performances are very competent but very pasteurized.  These are like Lawrence-Welk-show versions of exciting music.

01. Happy Days Are Here Again (2:12)
02. Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day (2:22)
03. Blue Eagle (2:16)
04. Home (2:15)
05. Lazy River (2:10)
06. Saturday Night (1:55)
07. The Waltz You Saved for Me (2:39)
08. It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane (2:39)
09. Goofus (1:52)
10. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (2:33)

 Del Wood was a gal who took this name so as to not be considred "just a girl" in the record bins.

Honky-Tonk Piano

See you on Monday!

  

More Good Music from a Crummy Label

Yes, it's another collection of good music presented by the incompetent doodooheads at Sine Qua Non.  And as note in this previous post, the doofusses can't even get their labelling correct.

You see, there are SIX tracks on Side 2 of this tape. The cassette liner omits the fourth song.  But yours truly has spared no brain cell to identify "Baltimore Todolo."

01. Solace (A Mexican Serenade) (4:23)

02. Something Doing - a Ragtime Two-Step (3:34)
03. Augustan Club Waltz (4:27)
04. Heliotrope Bouquet - a Slow Drag Two-Step (3:51)
05. Pleasant Moments - a Ragtime Waltz (3:06)
06. Stoptime Rag (2:07)
07. Daddy Won't You Please Come Home (3:48)
08. Troublesome Ivories - a Ragtime Rag (2:39)
09. My Handyman Ain't Handy No More (4:07)
10. Baltimore Todolo (2:52)
11. Memories of You (3:55)
12. Poor Katie Red (Eubie's Slow Drag) (4:22)
 
Peabody Ragtime Ensemble - Ragtime Band

Let me know if it's fun for you, too!  See you Thursday.

  

You Honk, I'll Tonk

This 1955 LP has some very competent playing, but it's a bit TOO tongue-in-cheek for me, what with the sound effects you can notice here and there.

01. Tavern in the Town / Pony Boy / Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-yay (2:27)

02. Honeysuckle Rose (2:01)

03. Bill Bailey (2:13)

04. Mother Pin a Rose on Me (2:22)

05. How You Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (1:52)

06. Kitten on the Keys (2:13)

07. My Wild Irish Rose / Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1:48)

08. After the Ball Is Over / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / The Man on the Flying Trapeze (2:37)

09. Bicycle Built for Two / In the Good Old Summertime / The Band Played On (2:50)

10. Sidewalks of New York / The Bowery (1:58)

11. Girl of My Dreams (3:16)

Joe "Fingers" O'Shay - Honky Tonk Piano

See you on Thursday, OK?  OK!
 

As Opposed to the Imitation Kansas City Next Door

Have a swingin' old time!

01. Kater Street Rag - Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (2:33)

02. Boot to Boot - Jesse Stone & His Blues Serenaders (3:01)
03. Won’t You Come Over to My House? - George E Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra, Julia Lee (2:51)
04. Paseo Street (Strut) - George E Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra (2:43)
05. Blue Devil Blues - Walter Page’s Blue Devils (2:48)
06. Prince of Wails - Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra (2:52)
07. Queer Notions - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra (2:52)
08. Lotta Sax Appeal - Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joy (2:57)
09. Lady Be Good - Jones-Smith, Inc (3:08)
10. Rockin’ and Swingin’ - Don Albert & His Orchestra (2:41)
11. Western (Moten) Swing (a.k.a. “Moten Swing”) - Carolina Cotton Pickers (2:32)
12. Swinging at the Chat and Chew - Original Yellow Jackets (2:54)
13. Life Goes to a Party - Harry James & His Orchestra (2:53)
14. Cherry Red - Pete Johnson & His Boogie Woogie Boys (2:56)
15. Lester Leaps In - Count Basie’s Kansas City Seven (3:16)
16. T-Town Blues - Ernie Fields & His Orchestra (2:55)
17. Tickle Toe - Count Basie & His Orchestra (2:39)
18. Baby, Look at You - Pete Johnson & His Boogie Woogie Boys (3:04)
19. Little Joe from Chicago - Mary Lou Williams (2:37)
20. I Left My Baby - Count Basie & His Orchestra (3:15)
21. My Gal Sal - Harlan Leonard & His Rockets (2:59)
22. Swingmatism - Jay Mcshann & His Orchestra (2:43)
23. Harvard Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra (3:21)
24. Smooth Sailing - Horace Henderson & His Orchestra (2:57)
25. Long Gone Blues - Billie Holliday & Her Orchestra (3:04)

Lemme know what you think.

Real Kansas City

See you on Thursday, my fellow Americans!

The Roaring Twenties - The Bee's Knees!

DISC ONE:
01. Whispering - Paul Whiteman & His Ambassador Orchestra (3:20)
02. Palesteena - Frank Crumit (3:06)
03. Dardanella - Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra (3:19)
04. Kitten on the Keys - Zez Confrey (3:40)
05. Wabash Blues - Isham Jones (2:58)
06. Ain't We Got Fun - Van & Schenck (2:59)
07. The Sheik of Araby - Rudy Wiedoeft's Californians (3:09)
08. Barney Google - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (3:28)
09. Charleston - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (2:49)
10. Old King Tut - Sophie Tucker (3:04)
11. It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo' - Wendell Hall (3:21)
12. Yes! We Have No Bananas - Billy Jones (2:54)
13. The Okeh Laughing Record - Okeh (2:55)
14. Fascinating Rhythm - Green Brothers Novelty Orchestra (4:11)
15. The Prisoner's Song - Green Brothers Novelty Orchestra (3:13)
16. Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight - Billy Jones & Ernest Hare (2:45)
17. Who - George Olsen (3:19)
18. Ukulele Lady - Vaughn deLeath (3:24)
19. Don't Bring Lulu - Billy Murray (2:46)
20. I'll See You in My Dreams - Cliff Edwards (3:04)
21. Black Bottom - Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (3:13)

DISC TWO:
01. Bye Bye Blackbird - George Olsen (3:08)
02. Poor Papa - Jack Smith (2:40)
03. Someone to Watch Over Me - George Gershwin (3:12)
04. The Blue Room - The Revelers (3:21)
05. At Sundown - Harry Reser's Clicquot Club Eskimos (3:17)
06. My Blue Heaven - Gene Austin (3:35)
07. Good News - Victor Arden & Phil Ohman (4:11)
08. Charmaine - Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (3:07)
09. Goodbye Broadway, Hello Montréal - Waring's Pennsylvanians (2:55)
10. Sonny Boy - Al Jolson (3:19)
11. Chloe - Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra (4:38)
12. Get Out and Get Under the Moon - Helen Kane (3:31)
13. Ramona - Gene Austin (2:57)
14. Makin' Whoopee - Eddie Cantor (3:16)
15. Love Me or Leave Me - Ruth Etting (3:23)
16. Ol' Man River - Paul Whiteman (3:15)
17. Laugh! Clown, Laugh! - Waring's Pennsylvanians (3:42)
18. Send for Our Free Booklet - Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks (3:09)
19. Tiptoe Through the Tulips - Nick Lucas (2:50)
20. Button up Your Overcoat - Helen Kane (2:56)
21. I'm a Dreamer (Aren't We All) - The High Hatters (2:53)

It’s all served up in one fat file, so it may take a but to download.

THE ROARING TWENTIES

See you on Thursday, mates!
 

MA-150 - National Anthems

Happy Independence Day to all and sundry!

As somebody said on a talk show earlier this week, “This nation was founded by imperfect men and based on an ideal of liberty.”  I’ll agree with that.  Our country is not perfect, but its ideals of equal opportunity, personal choice, and self-determination are second to none.

Heck, you don’t even have to be an American to get that!  Vide Tracks 22 or 26, both by Britishers.

01 - The Star-Spangled Banner - Reuben Guevara - 1978  (3:45)

02 - Long Long Ago - Merry-Go-Round Records - 1959  (2:45)
03 - There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House - Sterling Trio - 1918  (3:09)
04 - On the 4th of July - James Taylor - 2002  (3:24)
05 - America, Communicate with Me - Ray Stevens - 1970  (3:12)
06 - American Flag on the Moon - Brad Paisley - 2014  (3:49)
07 - Yankee Doodle Blues - Billy Murray & Ed Smalle - 1922  (2:56)
08 - Dixie & The Bonnie Blue Flag - Classical Brass - 1991  (2:25)
09 - Where the Stars and Stripes and Eagle Fly - Aaron Tippin - 2001  (3:44)
10 - Because All Men Are Brothers - Peter, Paul and Mary - 1965  (2:09)
11 - Only in America - Jay and the Americans - 1963  (2:01)
12 - National Emblem March - Tommy Dorsey - 1943  (3:00)
13 - Cool Water - Sons of the Pioneers - 1959  (2:08)
14 - America - Waylon Jennings - 1984  (3:24)
15 - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees - 1931  (3:39)
16 - The Immigrant (dedicated to John Lennon) - Neil Sedaka - 1975  (3:46)
17 - We Must Be Vigilant (American Patrol) - Hour of Charm All-Girl Orchestra - 1942  (2:51)
18 - Bugle Call Blues - Jack Pettis and His Pets - 1929  (2:42)
19 - It's America - Rodney Atkins - 2009  (3:29)
20 - Barnum and Bailey's Favorite - United States Army Band - 2012  (2:26)
21 - America Is My Home, Part 1 - James Brown - 1968  (3:20)
22 - Melting Pot - Blue Mink - 1969  (3:47)
23 - Alexander's Ragtime Band - Joe “Fingers” Carr - 1956  (2:07)
24 - Home on the Range - Gene Autry - 1947  2:37)
25 - Battle Cry of Freedom - John Williams and Chicago Symphony Orchestra - 2012  (2:14)
26 - Country Dances - The Swingle Singers - 1991  (3:30)

Here’s hopin’ you can draw a little celebration, inspiration, and even good ol’ American silliness from your heart as you listen.

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... And I’ll see you back here on Monday!