Podcast appearances and mentions of lee wiley

Jazz88's Peter Solomon spoke with Tony Balluff, clarinetist and founding member of the Southside Aces, about the Jazz Age Rumpus IV taking place at the Hook and Ladder Theater on Sunday, March 23rd from 3 - 7 PM. The music will focus on the New York sounds of Bix Beiderbecke, Ellington small groups, and singer Lee Wiley. The Southside Aces will perform at Sunday's event, as well as singer Maude Hixson and her Town Talkers, and a new combo Balluff has organized called the 4 AM Orchestra.

Jazz88's Peter Solomon spoke with Tony Balluff, clarinetist and founding member of the Southside Aces, about the Jazz Age Rumpus IV taking place at the Hook and Ladder Theater on Sunday, March 23rd from 3 - 7 PM. The music will focus on the New York sounds of Bix Beiderbecke, Ellington small groups, and singer Lee Wiley. The Southside Aces will perform at Sunday's event, as well as singer Maude Hixson and her Town Talkers, and a new combo Balluff has organized called the 4 AM Orchestra.

Songs include: Tuxedo Junction by the Andrews Sisters, Our Love Affair by Judy Garland, Looking At You by Lee Wiley, I'll Get By by the King Sisters, Starlit Hour by Ella Fitzgerald and Body and Soul by Billie Holiday. 

Featuring collaborations with: James P. Johnson, Alberta Hunter, Elizabeth Handy, Herman Autrey, Una Mae Carlisle, The Deep River Boys, Myra Johnson, Lee Wiley, Ada Brown.

It's the deep blue sea for Gildy, well, it's the deep water reservoir anyway. It's Sounds Like Radio Volume 169 and we find GIldy trying to build up his name as water commissioner in the town. He needs publicity that mean a deep dive in the water reservoir! Your Humble Host will try to build Gildy's confidence with a few folks he's brought with him, Robert Mitchum drinks calypso style water, Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, Emmylou Harris, Bing Crosby, Lee Wiley, Mills Brothers & Sophie Tucker. We've all gathered for another funny and oh so great musical episode of Sounds Like Radio!

Your Humble Host sees it's time now for Volume 146 of Sounds Like Radio as we find the September 26, 1951 Great Gildersleeve as he's in quite a pickle. It seems Marjorie has decided out of the blue to get a job and leave them little babies of hers to Bronco and Birdey and Gildy. Oh my, babies now for the whole family to watch while Marjorie is out "finding herself" as the say in today's parlance. To help Marjorie come to her senses and get back to them little babies we have Burl Ives, Dinah Washington, a Bing Crosby two-fer, Betty Brewer and Gordon Jenkins, Dean Martin, Lee Wiley & Big Al Downing. Wowzers if that ain't enough nothing is.

Smarty Jen Plym sits down with Dr. Lee Wiley with CEENTA to discuss refractive surgery options (like LASIK) and some common myths to debunk. Dr. Wiley specializes in cataract, cornea and cornea transplants, external disease and refractive eye surgery including LASIK. For more details: LASIK/PRK: https://www.ceenta.com/conditions-and-treatments/lasik Implantable Implantable Contact Lens: https://www.ceenta.com/conditions-and-treatments/implantable-contact-lenses Contact Lens tips: https://www.ceenta.com/news-blog/stop-these-habits-when-taking-care-of-your-contacts Scheduling appointments online: https://www.ceenta.com/schedule-an-appointment Find Charlotte Smarty Pants here: http://charlottesmartypants.com

It's Sounds Like Radio Volume 134 as we find The Great Gildersleeve suddenly wanted as a friend to Bullard. Why would Bullard suddenly want to be Mr. Nice Guy and friends with Gildy? Hmm, something is up and it just may have something to do with Bullard needing a permit for his boat from the Water Commissioner. Could it be? Nahhh. Well, what we have here is a show concerning what's known as fair-weather friends. And I've invited a whole bunch of fine singers to help Gildy out with this situation. On hand are Don Williams, Lee Wiley (featured in our picture with this show), Bing Crosby, Barbara Mandrell, Slim Whitman, Joanie Sommers & Arthur Godfrey is even going to sing a sea-chanty! We're sailing along on the silvery moon today, ALL ABOARD.

In Volume 112 of Sounds Like Radio Gildy finds himself having to make a calendar girl choice. It's a brave decision to be made by The Great Gildersleeve from November 22, 1950 when he has to choose between his old girlfriend Nurse Milford and the new vixen Vicki who's set her sights on our hero too. We'll see what happens, but you know we wouldn't leave Gildy alone to face this Calendar Girl dilemma. No sir, to help in this momentous decision we have the beguiling Lee Wiley along with Dean Martin, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland and Ray Charles. They all put their heads together just to offer Gildy some way to handle this. And bringing all these great thinkers to the show is none other than Your Humble Host. A fun show is what we have here along with some mighty fine music.

Shellac Stack No. 265 rides with a certain famous “masked man” and Dick Robertson. We hear from the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra, jazz harpist Casper Reardon, vocalists Lee Wiley and Johnny Marvin, and the Rainy City Jazz Band. More good records from Joe Loss, Glenn Miller, Billy Merrin, Sam Lanin, and others round out the hour. Join … Continue reading »

Unsung champions of the Broadway songbook--if you don't know them, you should: Jackie and Roy, Lee Wiley, Buddy Clark, Felicia Sanders, Matt Monro, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and more.  

Today the Smarty team sits down with Dr. Lee Wiley with Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates (CEENTA) and they are talking about Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE), an option for people who don’t want glasses but need a LASIK alternative. More Info: CEENTA - https://www.ceenta.com/conditions-and-treatments/refractive-lens-exchange

Shellac Stack No. 203 revels with the Singing Sophomores, Billy Jones, Vera Guilaroff, Andy Razaf, Abe Lyman, Lee Wiley, Louis Armstrong, and many others in this tune-filled hour of fox-trots, novelty songs, sultry vocalists, and more.

Two folky tunes from Burl Ives start us off. A jolly orchestrated(Percy Faith) version of Oh! Dear! She's wonderful beautiful and the more pared down Bonnie Wee Lassie. Ives spent the 1930s travelling the USA as an Itinerant musician and developed his singing career via the radio. He was also a well known actor, his most famous acting role was probably as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Old favourites Carroll Gibbons, Len Fillis Roberto Murolo, Archie Lewis, Ted Heath, Bob and Alf Pearson and Harry Roy return. Edna Kaye does vocals for Gibbons. A new Italian singer joins us though, Carlo Butti.  We have Miss Lee Wiley, whose jazz singing career was at its peak from the 1930s to 50s. She had a short tempestuous marriage to Jess Stacy, the jazz pianist. Great voice. Big Bill Campbell was a Canadian born purveyor of Cowboy music here in Britain- I'm Rocking to the Rockies is jolly and cheesy. Nowt wrong with that. Ted Wallace and his Campus boys provide some lovely 30s music and vocals. Wallace was Wallace T Kirkeby, manager of the highly prolific Californian Ramblers. Must play them again. Penultimate record is Jimmie Rodgers, Blue Yodel from 1927. So bluesy, great lyrics. Just to prove we like a good mix of music on Forgotten Songs we go out with The Jacques String Orchestra and Berinice by Handel.  How Highfalutin is that!  

Songs include: Red Sails At Sunset, Barnacle Bill the Sailor, Popeye the Sailor Man, Smooth Sailing and Sail On Blues Blues. Performers include: Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Lee Wiley, Ella Fitzgerald, Tommy Dorsey, the BBC Dance Orchestra, Hoagy Carmichael and the Six Jumping Jacks.

Songs with "light" in the title, including: Blue Moonlight, Lights Out, I'm Beginning to See the Light, By the Light of the Stars and I'll Keep the Lovelight Burning. Musicians include: Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Lee Wiley, Eddie Duchin, James P. Johnson, Rudy Valee and Eddie Condon.

Shellac Stack No. 93 invites you to “Spread a Little Happiness.” We hear from Binnie Hale, British star of stage and film, as well as Duke Ellington, Lee Wiley, Irving and Jack Kaufman, the DePace Brothers, Brother Bones, and Dolly Connolly (wife of ragtime composer Percy Wenrich). We listen to a few cowboy songs, some … Continue reading »

Songs include: I Found a Million Dollar Baby, My Last Dollar, I've Got Five Dollars, Give Me 20 Nickels For a Dollar, I Wish I Had a Dollar and Dollar Bill Blues. Performers include: Blanche Calloway, Lee Wiley, The Boswell Sisters, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Laurence Welk, Joe Turner and Charley Jordan.

Part one of a series featuring the music of Broadway lyricist, Lorenz hart.  This week. we look at Rodgers & Hart musicals from the 1920s. Songs include; Manhattan, With a Song In My Heart, Thou Swell. You Took Advantage of Me, A Ship Without a Sail, The Blue Room and My Heart Stood Still. Performers include: Lee Wiley, Doris Day, Ben Selvin, Frank Black, Buddy Rodgers and Leslie Hutchinson.

Here are five songs for you from the 1920s, in memory of my grandmother. The songs are "Some Sunny Day" by Lee Wiley, "Let's Misbehave" by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders, "My Blue Heaven" by Whispering Jack Smith, "Kitten on the Keys" by Zez Confrey, and "That's A Plenty" by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies.

Or for white girls who've considered cabaret when the rainbow is enuf. Mike and Pat visit the altars of four pale goddesses of song – but which ones get the sacrificial goats? June Christy – SOMETHING COOL; Keely Smith – SPOTLIGHT ON KEELY SMITH; Doris Day and Andre Previn – DUET; Lee Wiley – NIGHT IN MANHATTAN.

Shellac Stack No. 32 features several selections from Joe Venuti, a scarce late Victor acoustic, Japanese Jazz from the Blue Sky Swing Players, Lee Wiley, a surprising appearance by “The Shadow” of old-time radio fame, and more!

Como siempre que hay luna llena en fin de semana, dedicamos el programa a canciones sobre la luna. Empezamos con Eileen Farell y su extraordinaria versión de "Fly me to the moon", grabada hace justo medio siglo. Una de las más afectuosas canciones sobre la luna es "Moonlight cocktail" ("Cóctel a la luz de la luna"), que grabó en 1941 la orquesta de Glenn Miller con el cantante Ray Eberle y el grupo vocal The Modernaires. La cantante Lee Wiley grabó en 1945 su versión de "It's only a paper moon" ("Es sólo una luna de papel"), que había compuesto doce años antes Harold Arlen. En Voces con swing ya hemos puesto varias versiones de la canción italiana "Luna rossa". Esta vez la escuchamos cantada en inglés por Frank Sinatra, en un disco grabado en 1952 con el título de "Blushing moon" ("Luna ruborizada"). En 1945 Francisco Roviralta grabó un elegante fox titulado "Noche luminosa". Cuatro años más tarde, Antonio Machín grabó "Anoche hablé con la luna", del cubano Orlando de la Rosa. Al año siguiente Luis Mariano grabó otra canción cubana, pero cantada en francés, "Luna lunera". Y en 1955 Lolita Garrido grabó el fox de Agustín Lara "Luna, luna, luna". El director de cine Jesús Franco compuso en 1961 la canción que daba título a la película Luna de verano, que grabó en disco Juan Riquelme, acompañado al piano por el compositor. "Llanto de luna" es un gran bolero del cubano Julio Gutiérrez. Lo escuchamos en la poderosa voz de Elena Burke. Otro bolero, pero de estilo español, es "La luna enamorá", que escuchamos a ritmo de cha-cha-chá por el conjunto de Rudy Ventura. Terminamos con la irrespetuosa pero simpática versión de "Blue moon" que grabó el conjunto vocal The Marcels en el año 1960.Escuchar audio

Her husky, surprisingly sensual voice and exquisitely cool readings of pop standards distinguished her singing, but Lee Wiley earns notice as one of the best early jazz singers by recognizing the superiority of American popular song and organizing a set of songs around a common composer or theme -- later popularized as the songbook or concept LP. She was also a songwriter in her own right, and one of the few white vocalists with more respect in the jazz community than the popular one. Even more tragic then, that while dozens of inferior vocalists recorded LPs during the late '50s and '60s, Wiley appeared on record just once between 1957 and her death in 1975.

Big Band Serenade presents Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra. Glen Gray, the Casa Loma Orchestra was the first ''swing'' band. Songs played in order of play,1)"Smoke Rings"-1937,2)"Dardanella"-1933,3)"Heat Wave"-1933,4)"Narcissus"-1934,5)"A Hundred Years From Today"-1934,6)"My Shinning Hour",7)"My Heart Tells Me",8)"My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean"-1938,9)"Sunrise Serenade"-1939,10)"Heaven Can Wait"1939,11)"Under A Blanket Of Blue"-1939,12)"A Lover's Lullaby"-1940,13)"It's The Talk Of The Town"-1942,14)"Till We Meet Again"-1942,15)"Don't Get Around Much ANymore"-1942,16)"Just An Old Manuscript"-1944 Vocalist were, Lee Wiley,Clyde Burke,Kenny Sargent,and Pee Wee Hunt Comments or Requests at 214-224-0834 ( Would love to have Comments, want to include them in some of the future shows)

Bud shares his knowledge and expansive music collection to uncover the life and music of Lee Wiley. Lee Wiley (October 9, 1908 – December 11, 1975) was an American jazz singer during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Wiley was born in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. At fifteen, she left home to pursue a singing career, singing on New York City radio stations. Her career was interrupted by a fall while horseback riding. She suffered temporary blindness but recovered. At the age of 19 she was a member of the Leo Reisman Orchestra, with whom in 1931 she recorded three songs: "Take It from Me", "Time On My Hands", and her composition "Got the South in My Soul".