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La cuestión de quién era el “mejor”, Ellington o Lunceford, se convirtió en un tema de conversación serio en círculos de moda, tanto en Norteamérica como en Europa. "Hace dos semanas, dejé la decisión en sus manos. Hasta ahora, varios han hablado, y han nombrado sólo a Duke Ellington y Jimmie Lunceford. Benny Goodman no ha sido considerado, ni ninguna otra banda negra". Franklyn Frank, Amsterdam News. Con José Manuel Corrales.
We are kicking off the month of March featuring one of our favorite vintage Hollywood actors on radio, Jimmy Stewart. Stewart was prolific on radio, with numerous appearances on almost every major A-list program. We are beginning with Jimmy Stewart as guest on the popular comedy, "The Charlie McCarthy Show." The episode features Edgar Bergen, his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy, and Ray Noble, Anita Gordon, and Mortimer Snerd. This episode features Charlie's mock resignation from radio, a political campaign where Charlie runs for president of his club, and Stewart serves as Charlie's campaign manager. Visit our website: https://goodolddaysofradio.com/ Subscribe to our Facebook Group for news, discussions, and the latest podcast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/881779245938297 Our theme music is "Why Am I So Romantic?" from Animal Crackers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KHJKAKS/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MK8MVCY4DVBAM8ZK39WD
Send us a textThis week, the Bad Piano Player goes for a second Ray Noble episode, with the emphasis on Ray's longtime vocalist, the great Al Bowlly. We'll be learning six songs Al recorded, five written by Ray. And the sometimes okay singer will be channeling his best voice to even approach the perfection of Al Bowlly's voice. Tune in to see how we do!
The OTRNow Radio Program 2024-014The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. June 23, 1939. Program #21. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. The mad Inspector Weymouth and "The Lord Of The Fire.". Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. The Shadow Of Fu Manchu. June 26, 1939. Program #22. Radio Attractions syndication. Sponsored by: Music fill for local commercial insert. Watch out for the Si-Fan!. Hanley Stafford, Gale Gordon. The Charlie McCarthy Show. May 2, 1943. NBC net origination, AFRS rebroadcast. Charlie's growing a moustache. Dale sings, "Canteen Bounce." Bill Thompson reports from "Flageria" (in his "Wallace Wimple" voice and Negro, German and Swedish dialects). Guest Barbara Stanwyck volunteers to be Charlie's manager and get a raise for him from Bergen. Edgar Bergen, Ray Noble and His Orchestra, Dale Evans, Bill Thompson, Barbara Stanwyck, Del Sharbutt (Special Services announcer). Grand Marquee. August 21, 1947. NBC net, Chicago origination. "Haunt Me A House". Sustaining. An eager real estate agent tries to sell a house during the housing shortage...a haunted house! The program may be dated August 27, 1947. Jim Ameche, Muriel Bremner, Hope Summers, Cliff Soubier, Johnny Coons, Ralph Hunter (writer), Mary McSkiving (writer), Norman Felton (producer), George Stone (announcer), Joseph Gallicchio (conductor), Emil Soderstrom (composer). The Sportsmen's Club.(Grantland Rice Sports) March 11, 1944. NBC net. "The Phantom Drive". Sustaining. A great story about a dead sportswriter and a dead tennis champ who return to Earth for one more tournament. The program is going to be pre-empted next week. Grantland Rice (host), William T. Tilden II (author), Harold Young, William Mitchell, Gerald Holland (adaptor), Will Hare, Norman McKay, Gregory Morton, Anthony Lapenna, Len Sterling, George Crook (organist), Theodore Cella (harpist), Anton M. Leader (director). Big Town. March 8, 1949. NBC net. "The Case Of The Crooked Eye". Sponsored by: Lifebuoy Soap, Rinso. An expose of the fake detective racket. A crooked private eye tries to blackmail a client, then beats him almost to death. The "detective" then murders his girlfriend and threatens to do the same to Lorelei! Edward Pawley, Fran Carlon, Jerry McGill (writer, producer), Dwight Weist (narrator).Cabin B-13. July 5, 1948. CBS net. "A Razor In Fleet Street". Sponsored by: sustaining. The first show of the series. A spin-off from the "Suspense" series, originally heard as one of the stories of that series on Nov. 9, 1942. Arnold Moss as "Dr. Fabian" introduces an excellent murder mystery. A razor wielding "Slasher" is the double of a visiting diplomat, but who's who? Arnold Moss (host), John Dickson Carr (creator, writer), Joseph Curtin, Naomi Campbell, William Podmore, Merle Kendrick (composer, conductor), Charles S. Monroe (editor), John Dietz (director).
YOUTUBE FOLLOWERS: There will be a delay in release of these as they have to be manually released. Sorry for the delay. The podcasts are released through Spreaker at Midnight and flow down to other podcast channels shortly thereafter. A Funny FridayFirst a look at the events of the dayThen Father Knows Best starring Robert Young, originally broadcast October 18, 1951, 73 years ago, Gossip. Are the rumors about Hector and his wife true? That's what the gossip says...We follow that with Fibber McGee and Molly, originally broadcast October 18, 1937, 87 years ago, Man on the Street Broadcast. Fibber is conducting a, "Man-On-The-Street" radio program.Then The Edgar Bergen Show with Charlie McCarthy, originally broadcast October 18, 1953, 71 years ago with guest Fred MacMurray. Bergen tells Charlie about Achilles. Mortimer tries to sell his farm to Ray Noble. Charlie is forced to take a lie-detector test. The cast does a satire of, "The Caine Mutiny" called, "The Umbrella Uprising."Followed by the Jack Benny Show, originally broadcast October 18, 1942, 82 years ago, Jack Donates the Maxwell to the Scrap Drive. The program originates from Williams Field, near Chandler Arizona. Jack turns in the Maxwell for the scrap drive! He then dreams that the car is a bomber, with Jack flying it on a mission to bomb Tokyo! Finally, Claudia, originally broadcast October 18, 1948, 76 years ago. Claudia looks for a parking place.Thanks to Honeywell for supporting our podcast by using the Buy Me a Coffee function at http://classicradio.streamIf you like what we do here, visit our friend Jay at http://radio.macinmind.com for great old time radio shows 24 hours a day
Diane and Sean discuss the Stanley Kubrick classic, The Shining. Episode music is, "It's All Forgotten Now", by Ray Noble, performed by Ray Noble with Al Bowlly- Our theme song is by Brushy One String- Artwork by Marlaine LePage- Why Do We Own This DVD? Merch available at Teepublic- Follow the show on social media:- IG: @whydoweownthisdvd- Tumblr: WhyDoWeOwnThisDVD- Follow Sean's Plants on IG: @lookitmahplants- Watch Sean be bad at video games on TwitchSupport the show
A big birthday arrives with a large inheritance and thus the ability to finally control one's life or so it seems.August 1933, Jakey Astor finally turns 21 and comes into his fortune. Only other troubles complicate his rise into Society. Meanwhile several debutantes are lining up to be the future young Mrs. Astor.Other people and subjects include: Doris Duke, Barbara Hutton, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Louise Van Alen, James HR Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Cobina Wright, James “Henry” Van Alen aka Jimmy, Huntington Hartford, Henrietta Harford, Mary Lee Epling Hartford, Frank Shields, Rebecca “Billie” Tenney Shields, Franklyn Hutton, Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt III aka Neily, Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., Alice Vanderbilt, Alfred Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt, Caroline Astor, Vincent Astor, John Jacob Astor VI aka Jakey, John Jacob Astor IV aka Jack or Colonel, Helen Dinsmore Astor, Alice Ava Muriel Astor Obolensky von Hofmannsthal, Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick, Katherine Emmons Force Spencer, Lorillard Spencer, William Dick, Enzo Fiermonte, James “Jeem” Donahue aka Jimmy, LeBrun “Brunie” Rhinelander, Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia (Christina, Christiana, Cristiana), Viscount Duncannon, Eileen Gillespie, Ellen Tuck “Tucky” French, Betty Morris, Mary de Mumm, Leta Morris, Phyllis Gillespie, Rose Winslow, Penelope Winslow, Virginia French, Francis Ormond French – Frankie, Marrying Frenches, Marrying Wilsons, Divorcing Mdivanis, Gold Dust Twins, Sea Victims, iceberg, torpedo, Mrs. Marguerite Skirvin Adams, Perle Reid Skirvin – Mrs. George Mesta, Katherine Howard, Charles Townsend, Social Register, sand castle design, treasure hunt, aviation exhibition, Tennis Week, mating game, marital proposals, dances, debutantes, World War I, Titanic, Lusitania, New York, Washington, D.C., Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Naragansett, Newport, Rhode Island, Rough Point, Seaverge, Beaulieu, Breakers, Chastellux, Beachmound, Mid-Cliff, Malbone, Cliff's Walk, Bailey's Beach, Muenchinger-King Hotel, Thames Street, St. Georges school, Harvard University, BehindtheName.com, Census charts, familiarizing unknown people, popular names, repeating names, origin, lineage, clarity, Byzantine history, Arab history, John Palaiologos (Paleologos), Michael Palaiologos (Paleologos), John the Climax, John the Impotent, Robert Adams, Jenny Marston, Lawrence Tibbett, Benjamin Shaw, Sr., Harry Thaw, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit, Madison Square Garden rooftop, sexual scandal, special dates, anticipation, let down, setback, finding positives, self-delusion,…--Extra Notes / Call to Action:New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.comFriday, November 1st, 2024 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel Part 1: A New Standard of Luxury (pre-1929)https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-1-a-new-standard-of-luxury-webinar-registration-1021721385167/Friday, November 8th, 2024 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York Part 2: Manhattan's Grandest Hotel (1931-present)https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-2-manhattans-grandest-hotel-webinar-registration-1021721475437/Share, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: From the Top of Your Head by Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 2 Music: I Guess I Will Have To Change My Plan by Ambrose & His Orchestra, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 3 Music: The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/X / TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsX / Twitter – https://twitter.com/asthemoneyburnsInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/asthemoneyburns/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
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Sunday afternoon July 14, the Northfield Jazz Fest takes place. It is a multi-venue event, with much of the action taking plat at Northfield's Way Park. The fest is funded by the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council to showcase local talent. Phil Nusbaum talked about some of the Northfield band leaders at the fest, and the conversation started with JC talking about his group, the Immanent Standards trio. This trio project began before the pandemic, and then, as now, group members use well-worn tunes such as Ray Noble's Cherokee as launching pads for improvisation.
An heiress has her hands full battling the tax man while flirting with a new aristocratic suitor.May 1933, Doris Duke finds herself with another potential aristocratic suitor the impoverished Earl of Warwick, but she has more potential trouble coming from the IRS trying to collect more taxes on her estate. Other people and subjects include: Nanaline Duke, James HR Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” James “Buck” Duke, Edward E.T. Stotesbury, Eva Stotesbury, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Walker Inman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Donna Christina Torlonia (Cristina / Christiana / Cristiana,…), Elsie Moore Torlonia, Earl of Warwick Charles Guy Fulke Greville, William Rhinelander Stewart, Greta Garbo, Lili Damita, Amelia Earhart, Colony Club - Manhattan, New York City, Hollywood, Supreme Court, appeal, reject, Internal Revenue Service – IRS, tax evasion, Atlanta Penitentiary, Byzantine Empress Irene, French Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne, British Queen Elizabeth I, Russian Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible, chess set, Il Duce Benito Mussolini, Rachele Guidi Mussolini, Clara Petacci, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mistress, wife, stepsister, dictator, World War II, California Railway Commission, gas rate cuts, Los Angeles, Chicago and Indiana radio stations, air waves, Jamaica ginger, ginger extract, Prohibition, jake, partial paralysis, *ginger paralysis (referenced not directly mentioned), castor oil extract, phosphate poisoning, Spain, Germany, Italy, Morrocco, jake walk, jake dance, jake leg, John Addis, A.C. Addis, Kansas wholesale grocers, President of Hub Corporation Harry Gross, The Untouchables TV Series Season 2, illusion, delusion, social media, retelling stories, supernova explosion, Baltimore bridge, right side of history, dark sides of history, chaotic times--Extra Notes / Call to Action:Proud Stutter by Maya Chupkovhttps://www.proudstutter.com/https://pod.link/1588336626 “Rock of Hope” documentary fundraiserCrowdfund Campaign Link: seedandspark.com/fund/rock-of-hope-film#storyHashtag: #RockOfHopeFilmInstagram: @mayachupkov, @misterjayjordanFacebook: mcsharoneX: @MayaSharonaLI: MayaChupkovYouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lTDJNP7BA&t=2sShare, like, subscribe --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: There Isn't Any Limit To My Love by Ambrose, Album It's Got To Be LoveSection 2 Music: The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 3 Music: I Must See Annie Tonight by Brian Lawrance, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsTwitter – https://twitter.com/asthemoneyburnsInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/asthemoneyburns/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
The weather inspires jokes about Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and his horses. Ray Noble talks about his date with Gracie, and we learn about Gracie's kangaroo. Her small apartment has…
Gracie is still on the campaign trail, and complains to George about restrictions on campaign funds. Frank Parker tells about being at a recent baseball game. Ray Noble is on…
The heart wants what it wants, so a concerned mother rushes to thwart her heiress daughter's return to her former love.Late March – early April 1933, concerned mother Daisy Van Alen raises across the Atlantic Ocean to prevent her daughter Louise Van Alen from remarrying her recently divorced husband Prince Alexis Mdivani. He however has other plans.Other people and subjects include: Barbara Hutton, Louise Van Alen – formerly Princess Mdivani, Princess Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Josep Maria Sert, James "Henry" Van Alen, William "Sam" Van Alen, Lost Midnight Brigade, Bremen ocean liner, Paris, Atlantic Ocean, South Seas, scandal, betrayal, friends, family, micro details, modern research vs biographies written 40 yrs or more ago, new discoveries, deadly sins, lust, greed, envy, AI – artificial intelligence, social media, YouTube content creator declaration on fake images, Catherine – Princess of Wales – Kate Middleton, photo scandal, Wales children, insatiable desire for more media--Extra Notes / Call to Action:4th Anniversary of As The Money BurnsShare, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 2 Music: I've Got A Heart (Filled With Love For You Dear) by Glenn Miller, Album Perfect Big BandsSection 3 Music: Ain't She Sweet by Piccadilly Revels Band, Album Charleston – Great Stars Of the 20sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsTwitter – https://twitter.com/asthemoneyburnsInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/asthemoneyburns/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
Pocos en la era de las grandes orquestas se ganaron el respeto de sus compañeros como lo hizo la talentosa Dolores O'Neill, la Katharine Hepburn del Swing. Un aspecto destacado de la carrera de Tilton fue su aparición en el histórico concierto del 16 de enero de 1938 en el Carnegie Hall. Fue el primer concierto de una banda de jazz en la sala de música clásica. Con José Manuel Corrales.
When one door closes, another opens. How might an eviction lead to a brand new life in a luxury hotel?November 5th, 1932, Cobina Wright moves out of her Sutton Place home and now becomes homeless along with her 10 year daughter Lil Cobina Wright, Jr. At the last minute, an opportunity arrives to live at the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria hotel.Other people and subjects include: William May Wright aka “Bill,” Lucius Boomer, Ted Saucier, Elsa Maxwell, William Waldorf Astor, Caroline Astor, Carrie Astor, Orme Wilson, Jr., Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” Vincent Astor, Princess Ava Alice Astor Obolensky, James “Henry” Van Alen, William “Sam” Van Alen, Princess Louise Van Alen Mdivani, Josep Maria Sert, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Bertha Russell, Gladys Russell, George Russell, Wall Street Crash of 1929, moving, Sutton Place, Sutton Club, Waldorf-Astoria, Waldorf-Astoria Manhattan, Sert Room, Basildon Room, Jade Room, ballroom, The Gilded Age tv series, pain, joy, grit, resilience, hope--Extra Notes / Call to Action:New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.com Instagram & Facebook Groups: MansionsoftheGildedAge and TheGildedAgeSociety by Gary Lawrance**Submit questions to As The Money Burns social media accounts for the upcoming 100th episode.Share, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Freddy Gardner, Album Elegance 2Section 2 Music: The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 3 Music: Sing A Song of Sunbeams by Ronnie Munro & Orchestra, Albums Tea Dance 2 & The Great Bands Dance Bands Play Hits Of The 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
In this episode of It's All Pro Wrestling Podcast we welcome Tim and Doug, in their first show together, and let me tell you they did a bang up job! In this episode they cover the WWE vs AEW, Doug's vacation, Spiderman 2, steamed fish, It's All Pro Wrestling Wrestling Abacus, coping with Adam Copeland, Sting's retirement announcement, Elon Musk, Scheels, patriotism, and upcoming shows for Rocky Mountain Pro, CORE Pro Wrestling, IWC Legacy, Lucha Libre Utah, and WrestleRave. We invite you to listen to the new It's All Pro Wrestling Podcast! This episode is brought to you by our fine sponsors: Modelo, Snarf's and of course CUTEZ PUPPYZ PILLOWZ Songs Used In the Podcast: “...To Be Loved” by Papa Roach on The Paramour Sessions “45” by Shinedown on Leave A Whisper “Headstrong” by Trapt on Trapt “Midnight, The Stars and You” by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble & His Orchestra on The Shining Motion Picture Soundtrack “America” by Imagine Dragons on Night Visions Where To Find Everything Else: Website Page For The Podcast
Pues sí, nos adelantamos a la festividad de Halloween con un rockurrí de los oyentes, que son los que nos cuentan sus miedos y eligen el repertorio del podcast. Lo hacemos para librarnos de los atascos que, a buen seguro, llegarán la próxima semana con motivo de esta fecha señalada en el calendario. Ya huele a caramelos, manzanas y chocolate; ya se bruñen las hachas y los cuchillos, mientras las calabazas arden en la oscuridad de la noche. Esperamos que gocéis de la eterna pregunta: ¿truco o trato? Gracias a todos los que habéis participado y a todos vosotros que nos acompañáis una semana más. Playlist: Joan Jett & The BlackHearts - Season Of The Witch Michael Jackson - Thriller Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare Freaks - Gooble Gobble One of Us We Accept Her Father John Misty - A Bigger Paper Bag Talk Talk - Such a Shame Bob Dylan - Motorphycho Nightmare Alice Cooper - Ballad Of Dwight Fry Johnny Cash - Ain't No Grave Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Henry Burr - My Buddy Deep Purple - Why Didn't Rosemary? Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose Slipknot - Eyeless Pink Floyd - Careful with that axe, Eugene Al Bowlly, Ray Noble and His Orchestra - Midnight, The Stars and You Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle Robert Jon & The Wreck - Hold on Apoya este proyecto desde 1,49€ al mes. Tan solo tienes que pulsar el botón azul que tienes en la cabecera de este canal Gracias infinitas ya que tu aportación nos permite mejorar cada programa. Síguenos en Twitter: @CDSradioShow o si lo deseas súmate a nuestro grupo de Telegram: https://t.me/CDSpodcast para charlar sobre música, libros, películas... de todo un poco.
In this episode of It's All Pro Wrestling Podcast we welcome new host and producer Tim to the microphone! Welcome Tim! Tim had the daunting task of hosting his first show all by himself, and might we say, he did a bang up job! In this episode Tim covers the Tuesday Night Wars, MCU Phase 4 Movies, NXT v AEW, focus and regimen, the beginning of the end for AEW, upcoming local shows for Rocky Mountain Pro, Duke City Championship Wrestling, Lucha Libre & Laughs, New Class Wrestling Organization, Empire Pro Wrestling, Colorado Springs Wrestling, Heartland Championship Wrestling, DIVE Pro Wrestling, Devotion Championship Wrestling, and WrestleDrag, Florence Pugh, Tony Khan's X meltdown, eating clean and so much more. We invite you to listen to the new It's All Pro Wrestling Podcast! This episode is brought to you by our fine sponsors: Modelo, Snarf's and of course CUTEZ PUPPYZ PILLOWZ Songs Used In the Podcast: “...To Be Loved” by Papa Roach on The Paramour Sessions “Use Me” by Hinder on Take It To The Limit “Awake and Alive” by Skillet on Awake “Midnight, The Stars and You” by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble & His Orchestra on The Shining Motion Picture Soundtrack “Amaryllis” by Shinedown on Amaryllis “Nightmare” by Avenged Sevenfold on Nightmare Where To Find Everything Else: Website Page For The Podcast
In this episode we examine and listen to Disc #509 of the V-Disc Collection. This V-Disc features vintage recordings by the Ray Noble Orchestra and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (E023) * All music in this podcast are Creative Commons. Artists are credited within the podcast.
Shellac Stack No. 320 stampedes with Spike Hughes and His Dance Orchestra! We spend this tuneful hour in London with the likes of Jay Whidden, Jack Payne, Billy Cotton, Ray Noble, Billy Merrin, Harry Hudson, and other British dance bands of the 1920s and '30s. Join us!
Shellac Stack No. 319 hikes with Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra! We travel to recording studios around the world to hear Hawaiian guitars, Parisian swing, British dance bands, Central American marimbas, “Bohemian” waltzes — and we spice it all up with some American ragtime. Mutt Carey, Jan Garber, Lou Gold, Oscar Aleman, … Continue reading »
Ray Noble composed beloved standards like "The Very Thought of You," and he led great jazz bands in his native England and in the United States. He also had a successful career on radio as a musical director and as a comedic foil for Charlie McCarthy. We'll hear him as a gentleman adventurer in "The Star of Thessaly" (AFRS rebroadcast from November 24, 1957) and as half of a murderous newlywed couple in "Just One Happy Little Family" (AFRS rebroadcast from April 6, 1958). Plus we'll hear him lead the band and woo Lucille Ball on The Charlie McCarthy Show (originally aired on NBC on January 11, 1948).
1 - All Hail Great Judge - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (Gilbert and Sullivan) - 19272 - Hey, Doc! - Tyree Glenn with Cab Calloway and his Orchestra - 19413 - Sick, Sober, and Sorry - Tommy Duncan and his Western All-Stars - 19514 - Good-Night, Nurse - Billy Murray - 19135 - Oh! Doctor - Louis Panico and his Orchestra - 19306 - Doctor Jazz Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - 19497 - I'm The Medicine Man for The Blues - Johnny Marvin with Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra - 19298 - Love Doctor Blues - Gatemouth Moore with the Tiny Grimes' Swingtet - 19469 - Doctor Jazz - Jacques Kluger - 194110 - Old Doc Yak - Ray McKinley with Will Bradley and his Orchestra - 193911 - Root Doctor Blues - Dr. Clayton - 194612 - Doctor Ketchum - Ernest Tubb and Red Foley - 195313 - Doctor Blues - Luis Russell - 192914 - Swear Thou the Jury - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (Gilbert and Sullivan) - 192715 - Señor Juez (Mister Judge) - Jorge Zamora with Orquesta Aragón de Cuba - 195616 - Long as You Got Your Health - The Merry Macs with Ray Noble and his Orchestra - 1937
In this episode we examine and listen to Disc #596 of the V-Disc Collection. This V-Disc features vintage music by Ray Noble and Stan Kenton. (E017) * All music in this podcast are Creative Commons. Artists are credited within the podcast.
Episode 266, Swing, hits some instrumental and vocal highlights of popular swing music from the late 1930s into the early 1960s. Performers include Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Noble, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Bobby Darin,... Read More The post Episode 266, Swing appeared first on Sam Waldron.
The CBS Radio Workshop was an experimental dramatic radio anthology series that aired on CBS from January 27, 1956 until September 22, 1957. They produced 86 episodes. It was one of American network radio's last attempts to hod on to, and perhaps recapture, some of the audience they had lost to television in the post-World War II era. They had some outstanding directors: William N. Robson, Elliott Lewis, Antony Ellis, Jack Johnstone, Dee Engelbach, and Tony Schwartz. Bernard Herrman, Jerry Goldsmith, Ray Noble and Leith Stevens composed the musical scores. It was a great battle, but we all know who won the war! One very good thing is that all 86 of the episodes have been preserved. This track will live in the "Mystery-Crime" Playlist
A popular tap dancer and a highly decorated World War I general both appear at a popular dining hotspot, so has the hostess finally solved her money troubles? March & April 1932, Cobina Wright's Sutton Club is a successful hotspot. She has the famous African American vaudeville comedy duo Buck and Bubbles performing. She also hosts the famous war hero General John Pershing amidst his celebrations commemorating World War I. Other people and subjects include: John “Bubbles” Williams Sublett, Ford “Buck” Washington, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Private Henry Johnson, Private Needham Roberts, Micheline Resco, James “Jimmy” HR Cromwell, Cornelius “Neily” Vanderbilt III, Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, President Herbert Hoover, President Woodrow Wilson, President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, Brigadier General John Ross Delafield, World War I, Victory Parade, War Museum in Paris, Fort Bliss, mentor, World War II generals, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Marshall, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur, Nita Patton, 92nd Infantry Unit, 93rd Infantry Unit, Buffalo Soldiers, separate but equal, racism, 369th Infantry Unit, Harlem Hellfighters, Colonel William Hayward, Battle of Argonne, French Croix de Guerre, Harlem Hellfighters Band, James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, Blackbirds Orchestra, jazz, Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington, Walter Donaldson, Nicholas Brothers, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, “Black Garbo” Nina Mae McKinney, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Kentucky State Fair, New York Palace Theater, Ziegfeld Follies, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Dannie Kaye, Tuskegee Choir, Radio City Music Hall, BBC broadcast, Prince of Wales – future King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, George Gershwin, Porgy & Bess (1935), Carmen Jones (1946), Vietname USO tour, Eddie Fisher, Newport Jazz Festival, Sammy Davis, Jr., Gregory Hines, Michael Jackson, Greta Garbo, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, revisionist, apologist, historiography, modern ideologies, Lil Colonel (1935), Shirley Temple, Michael Jackson's chimpanzee Bubbles, US Senator from New York Charles Shumer, Purple Heart, Medal of Honor --Extra Notes / Call to Action:Rhythm Tap Dance 1937 (John Bubbles)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq38QLBE6wM Buck and Bubbles Varsity Show 1937https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCpKx64EivE THE SUN QUEEN | trailer | American Experience PBShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=e07pJ0FPCGk What's Her Name Podcast by Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meiklehttps://whatshernamepodcast.com/https://pod.link/1320638747 Share, like, subscribe --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music:The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 2 Music: The Charleston by The Savoy Orpheans, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 3 Music:Hep! Hep! Jumpin' Jive by Nat Gonella & His New Georgians, Album Dance CrazyEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands --https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
An ex-millionaire's financial crime catches up to him, and many more millionaires will soon be under investigation.February 1932, Princess Louise Van Alen Mdivani loses a pair of earrings and offers a substantial reward. Ex-millionaire Joseph Hoadley appears in court for passing a bad check. In March 1932, the U.S. Senate launches an investigation into Wall Street over the 1929 Crash and tax evasion.Other people and subjects include: E.T. “Ned” Stotesbury, Boss Tweed, Fannie Curtis Hoadley, Mrs. Grace Hoadley Wade, Ferdinand Pecora, Joseph Leiter, JP Morgan Jr., Richard Whitney, Charles Mitchell, Otto Kahn, Jesse Livermore, workhouse, Blackwell Island, Ludlow Street Jail, Pecora Commission, Tony Curtis, Estelle Getty, Luis Guzman, Jerry Stiller, Julius Rosenberg, Edwin Almonte, Julius Axelrod, bad check, suicide, foreclosure, gaslighting, lies, tax evasion, 1929 Wall Street Crash, 1893 Chicago's World Fair - World's Columbian Exposition--Extra Notes / Call to Action:HISTORY DETECTIVE by Kelly Chasehttps://historydetectivepodcast.com/https://pod.link/1522188386My recurring Waldorf-Astoria hotels webinar - Part 1 on Thursday, December 1st, 2022 and Part 2 Thursday, December 8th at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.comor the events section at https://asthemoneyburns.com.Monday, March 13th, 8pm EST / 5pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel Part 1: A New Standard of Luxury (pre-1929), Come learn more about the Astor family dispute behind the famous hotel and its construction as well as the hotel's influence on luxury travel and fine dining. Connections to the Titanic as well as other events and famous people will also be explored. But all good things come to an end. https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-i-a-new-standard-of-luxury-webinar-registration-546135635387/Monday, March 20th, 8pm EST / 5pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York Part 2: Manhattan's Grandest Hotel (1931-present), The second version of this fine luxury hotel comes during the dawn of new era which will bring new challenges and excitement. A lingering Astor family connection adds to the saga until a new family the Hilton dynasty rises and takes over. More celebrities and events will add to allure of this hotel. Finally, updates reveal the recent renovations, an auction, and the future for the third incarnation.https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-ii-manhattans-grandest-hotel-webinar-registration-546135695567/Share, like, subscribe --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands**Section 1 Music:**I Double Dare You by Jack Harris & His Orchestra, Albums More Sophistication & Hits of the 30s**Section 2 Music:**The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30s**Section 3 Music:**Turkish Towel by The Savoy Havana Band, Album Fascinating RhythmEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/
Cherokee, curiosamente compuesta por un británico, Ray Noble, ha servido como trampolín para Charlie Parker en sus invenciones. Lo escuchamos junto a otros grandes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Features vintage Big Band recordings by Chick Webb, Ray Noble, Dick Jurgens and Tiny Hill. Ronnaldo also plays an old ad from Admiral Radio. Consider supporting The Big Band and Swing Podcast by becoming a Hepcat. Learn more at SupportSwing.com. * All music in this podcast are Creative Commons. Artists are credited within the podcast.
Classic songs about the sea and sailing, and a few 78s. John Fogerty-Sea Cruise-John Fogerty LP Blues Image-Ride Captain Ride-Atco 45 Ray Noble and the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra-Speedboat Bill-Victor 78 Little Feat-Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie-Little Feat LP Split Enz-Six Months in a Leaky Boat-Time and Tide LP Jimmy Buffet-Son of a Son of a […]
The very thought of you (solo el pensar en tí) es un tema de los años 30 compuesto por Ray Noble. Escuchemos al autor, Billie, Ella, Dizzy, Sonny Rollins, Benett, Sinatra, Marsalis y otros Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Happy Halloween! In this episode, I'm sharing one of my favorite short ghost story called "Faces at the Window" by Rose Wilder Lane. It is based, in part, on the true story of the Bloody Benders, who murdered lodgers at their residence in the 1800s. Lane is the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie book series. Lane did not publish this story before her death in 1968; it was released posthumously in 1972. Enjoy!If you like this episode, please subscribe, rate us with 5 stars on iTunes or your favorite podcatcher, and consider supporting this one-woman show at Patreon. Host: Paris BrownProduced, written, & edited by: Paris BrownCredits:Podcast artwork by: Nathalie Rattner (nathalierattnerart@gmail.com)Featured photo: The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Social Media:FacebookInstagramTwitterYouTubeReddit discussion groupSources:Lane, Rose Wilder. "Faces at the Window." 1972. A Little House Sampler. U of Nebraska P, 1988.Music Clip:"Midnight, the Stars, and You." Performed by Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and his Orchestra. Written by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, and Reginald Connelly. Published in 1934 by Cinephonic Music Company, LTD.
Songs include: Spooky Spook, The Halloween Dance, Spider Web Blues, I Want To Be Evil, The Spell of the Blues, Haunted Nights, The Nightmare and Everything Is Scary Now. Performers include: Bing Crosby, Ray Noble, Victoria Spivey, The Casa Loma Orchestra, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway & Joshua Castro.
INTRO: Bob Plays The Danleers "One Summer Night" (1958) All Promises Are Fictitious (Aired April 17, 1940) During a typical 23-minute episode of the Burns and Allen show, the vast majority of the dialogue and speaking parts were written for Allen, who was credited with having the genius to deliver her lengthy diatribes in a fashion that made it look as though she was making her arguments up on the spot. (One running gag on the TV show was the existence of a closet full of hats belonging to various visitors to the Burns household, where the guests would slip out the door unnoticed, leaving their hats behind, rather than face another round with Gracie.) A continuing joke on the show was that George would say, "Say good night, Gracie," and Gracie would say, "Good night Gracie!" Ralph Pape used the catchphrase for the title of his play, Say Goodnight, Gracie, produced by Steppenwolf in 1983, and the phrase lives on as a title of other books and stage productions. THIS EPISODE: April 17, 1940. "All Promises Are Fictitious" - CBS network. Sponsored by: Hinds Honey and Almond Cream. At the Omaha convention of Gracie's Suprise Party, the men will be expected to grow beards and dress as if it were 1870. Gracie rehearses the speech she will be making in Dallas. She sings, "When The Sweet Potato Piper Plays." George Burns, Gracie Allen, Frank Parker, Ray Noble and His Orchestra, Truman Bradley (announcer), Mary Kelley (as "Bubbles"). 29:15. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
This week, the Bad Piano Player learns six Ray Noble Songs. And they're not famous ones, either. We had already done all his famous ones. A fixture on the New York Hotel Ballroom music scene for 30 years and one hell of a songwriter. Tune in!
Plenty of antics occur both on and off the court at the world's oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament – Wimbledon. Will the Queen be amused, or will she declare off with their heads?At 1931 Wimbledon, young Americans Frank Shields and Sidney Wood rise to prominence both on and off the tennis courts. Only after one incident, they find themselves apologizing to Queen Mary before continuing their dominance in Men's Singles.Other people and subjects include: tennis courts, tiebreak, Jimmy “Henry” Van Alen, William “Sam” Van Alen, Jean Borotra, Bunny Austin, Brooke Shields, Wimbledon traditions, strawberries, and teammates.Extra Notes / Call to Action:Strawberry recipes at social media & website.https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/ --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: You Hit The Spot by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30sSection 2 Music: Hep! Hep! Jumpin' Jive by Nat Gonella & His New Georgians, Album Dance Crazy Section 3 Music: The Younger Generation by Ray Noble, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands
Click Link to Connect and Follow https://linktr.ee/classicradioEpisode #7 - Burns and Allen – Gracie Wins WisconsinAn American comedy duo, Burns and Allen, was George Burns and his wife and partner, Gracie Allen. In September 1934, their 30-minute radio program premiered as The Adventures of Gracie, whose name changed to The Burns and Allen Show in 1936. From 1936 till 1950, the series switched back and forth between NBC and CBS until it was canceled. Burns and Allen reemerged on television with a successful situation comedy from 1950 to 1958.PlotLast week, Gracie "upset" the Wisconsin primary. She received a total of 63 votes. Ray Noble performs a solo rendition of Gracie's campaign song (which may be titled "Vote For Gracie"). "My, My," Gracie sings. So, what are we going to talk about tonight? Gracie asks George, shall we talk about you or something interesting? Let's talk about George Gracie, shall we? "So tell me about yourself, and what do you think of how I upset them last week in the Wisconsin Primary?"About the Podcast:Gracie is preparing for her presidential campaign. Where will her convention be held? "Vote For Gracie," Gracie's campaign song, is performed. Gracie's campaign is still going strong. Gracie has announced her candidacy for President of the United States of America. She aspires to be the first female President of the United States. The more George harps on her about her unattainable goal, the more determined and convinced dear Gracie becomes... She's not the only one who thinks this way. She persuades the rest of the cast to support her by promising them jobs with the government. Gracie's campaign is still going strong. Gracie has announced her candidacy for President of the United States of America. She aspires to be the first female President of the United States. the greater George*Support the channel**Merch:*social media:*Follow me on Instagram:*Follow me on Facebook:https://linktr.ee/classicradio *Our Affiliates Partners:Check out Health Ranger Store LINKS: https://linktr.ee/classicradioThis post/video contains affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission if you make a purchase using these links.#comedy #otr #oldtimeradio
Grant Godwin is a good man who always tries to do the right thing; that's why he became a cop, after all. But recently? Grant doesn't feel like being an officer of the law is making a difference in the world. One fateful night, after lamenting to a stranger about his desire to do more, he is granted the mantle and title of the Torchbearer, the ever-burning lantern of hope and justice! With his powers to shape pure light to his will, Torchbearer embarks on a mission to bring inspiration to the people of the world! Cast: David (he/him; @MrBananaSocks) as the Editor in Chief, Phil Montgomery (he/them; @BMCPHILANTHROPY) as Torchbearer (he/him) Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/kDFN36npSP Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mistconceptionspod Music in this episode: Sad, Sad Story by Raymond Scott and His Orchestra, The Moment I Saw You by Ray Noble and His Orchestra, Saint-Saëns by Bigot Eugène, Marcia funebre: Adagio assai by Bruno Walter
Demon hotels, Liam Neeson, toxic fans, goblin babies, time-traveling ghouls, Things, Things, and more Things...we saw it all this winter. But it's time to say goodbye. Our April miniseries will kick off next week. Until then, farewell, Winter Hell.Credits:Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced, by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.This episode was edited by Dom Nero.Our intro song for Winter Hell is a mish mosh of soundtracks and dialogue clips that are pulled from horror films that take place in the frozen cold. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's “Main Title” track for The Shining and Ennio Morricone's composition for The Thing are the central themes you hear. The outro music is the ominous end credits song from The Shining called “Midnight and the Stars are You” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with vocals by Al Bowlly. Our logo was designed by Francesca Volerich, you can purchase her work at society6.com/francescavolerich.If you'd like to advertise with us, or sponsor us, please email: Contact@EyeOfTheDuckPod.com
Episode one hundred and forty-six of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Good Vibrations” by the Beach Boys, and the history of the theremin. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "You're Gonna Miss Me" by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Beach Boys songs in the episode. I used many resources for this episode, most of which will be used in future Beach Boys episodes too. It's difficult to enumerate everything here, because I have been an active member of the Beach Boys fan community for twenty-four years, and have at times just used my accumulated knowledge for this. But the resources I list here are ones I've checked for specific things. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes, including several on both the Beach Boys and Gary Usher. His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Andrew Doe's Bellagio 10452 site is an invaluable resource. Jon Stebbins' The Beach Boys FAQ is a good balance between accuracy and readability. And Philip Lambert's Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is an excellent, though sadly out of print, musicological analysis of Wilson's music from 1962 through 67. I have also referred to Brian Wilson's autobiography, I Am Brian Wilson, and to Mike Love's, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. As a good starting point for the Beach Boys' music in general, I would recommend this budget-priced three-CD set, which has a surprisingly good selection of their material on it, including the single version of "Good Vibrations". Oddly, the single version of "Good Vibrations" is not on the The Smile Sessions box set. But an entire CD of outtakes of the track is, and that was the source for the session excerpts here. Information on Lev Termen comes from Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky Transcript In ancient Greece, the god Hermes was a god of many things, as all the Greek gods were. Among those things, he was the god of diplomacy, he was a trickster god, a god of thieves, and he was a messenger god, who conveyed messages between realms. He was also a god of secret knowledge. In short, he was the kind of god who would have made a perfect spy. But he was also an inventor. In particular he was credited in Greek myth as having invented the lyre, an instrument somewhat similar to a guitar, harp, or zither, and as having used it to create beautiful sounds. But while Hermes the trickster god invented the lyre, in Greek myth it was a mortal man, Orpheus, who raised the instrument to perfection. Orpheus was a legendary figure, the greatest poet and musician of pre-Homeric Greece, and all sorts of things were attributed to him, some of which might even have been things that a real man of that name once did. He is credited with the "Orphic tripod" -- the classification of the elements into earth, water, and fire -- and with a collection of poems called the Rhapsodiae. The word Rhapsodiae comes from the Greek words rhaptein, meaning to stitch or sew, and ōidē, meaning song -- the word from which we get our word "ode", and originally a rhapsōdos was someone who "stitched songs together" -- a reciter of long epic poems composed of several shorter pieces that the rhapsōdos would weave into one continuous piece. It's from that that we get the English word "rhapsody", which in the sixteenth century, when it was introduced into the language, meant a literary work that was a disjointed collection of patchwork bits, stitched together without much thought as to structure, but which now means a piece of music in one movement, but which has several distinct sections. Those sections may seem unrelated, and the piece may have an improvisatory feel, but a closer look will usually reveal relationships between the sections, and the piece as a whole will have a sense of unity. When Orpheus' love, Eurydice, died, he went down into Hades, the underworld where the souls of the dead lived, and played music so beautiful, so profound and moving, that the gods agreed that Orpheus could bring the soul of his love back to the land of the living. But there was one condition -- all he had to do was keep looking forward until they were both back on Earth. If he turned around before both of them were back in the mortal realm, she would disappear forever, never to be recovered. But of course, as you all surely know, and would almost certainly have guessed even if you didn't know because you know how stories work, once Orpheus made it back to our world he turned around and looked, because he lost his nerve and didn't believe he had really achieved his goal. And Eurydice, just a few steps away from her freedom, vanished back into the underworld, this time forever. [Excerpt: Blake Jones and the Trike Shop: "Mr. Theremin's Miserlou"] Lev Sergeyevich Termen was born in St. Petersburg, in what was then the Russian Empire, on the fifteenth of August 1896, by the calendar in use in Russia at that time -- the Russian Empire was still using the Julian calendar, rather than the Gregorian calendar used in most of the rest of the world, and in the Western world the same day was the twenty-seventh of August. Young Lev was fascinated both by science and the arts. He was trained as a cellist from an early age, but while he loved music, he found the process of playing the music cumbersome -- or so he would say later. He was always irritated by the fact that the instrument is a barrier between the idea in the musician's head and the sound -- that it requires training to play. As he would say later "I realised there was a gap between music itself and its mechanical production, and I wanted to unite both of them." Music was one of his big loves, but he was also very interested in physics, and was inspired by a lecture he saw from the physicist Abram Ioffe, who for the first time showed him that physics was about real, practical, things, about the movements of atoms and fields that really existed, not just about abstractions and ideals. When Termen went to university, he studied physics -- but he specifically wanted to be an experimental physicist, not a theoretician. He wanted to do stuff involving the real world. Of course, as someone who had the misfortune to be born in the late 1890s, Termen was the right age to be drafted when World War I started, but luckily for him the Russian Army desperately needed people with experience in the new invention that was radio, which was vital for wartime communications, and he spent the war in the Army radio engineering department, erecting radio transmitters and teaching other people how to erect them, rather than on the front lines, and he managed not only to get his degree in physics but also a diploma in music. But he was also becoming more and more of a Marxist sympathiser, even though he came from a relatively affluent background, and after the Russian Revolution he stayed in what was now the Red Army, at least for a time. Once Termen's Army service was over, he started working under Ioffe, working with him on practical applications of the audion, the first amplifying vacuum tube. The first one he found was that the natural capacitance of a human body when standing near a circuit can change the capacity of the circuit. He used that to create an invisible burglar alarm -- there was an antenna sending out radio waves, and if someone came within the transmitting field of the antenna, that would cause a switch to flip and a noise to be sounded. He was then asked to create a device for measuring the density of gases, outputting a different frequency for different densities. Because gas density can have lots of minor fluctuations because of air currents and so forth, he built a circuit that would cut out all the many harmonics from the audions he was using and give just the main frequency as a single pure tone, which he could listen to with headphones. That way, slight changes in density would show up as a slight change in the tone he heard. But he noticed that again when he moved near the circuit, that changed the capacitance of the circuit and changed the tone he was hearing. He started moving his hand around near the circuit and getting different tones. The closer his hand got to the capacitor, the higher the note sounded. And if he shook his hand a little, he could get a vibrato, just like when he shook his hand while playing the cello. He got Ioffe to come and listen to him, and Ioffe said "That's an electronic Orpheus' lament!" [Excerpt: Blake Jones and the Trike Shop, "Mr. Theremin's Miserlou"] Termen figured out how to play Massenet's "Elegy" and Saint-Saens' "The Swan" using this system. Soon the students were all fascinated, telling each other "Termen plays Gluck on a voltmeter!" He soon figured out various refinements -- by combining two circuits, using the heterodyne principle, he could allow for far finer control. He added a second antenna, for volume control, to be used by the left hand -- the right hand would choose the notes, while the left hand would change the volume, meaning the instrument could be played without touching it at all. He called the instrument the "etherphone", but other people started calling it the termenvox -- "Termen's voice". Termen's instrument was an immediate sensation, as was his automatic burglar alarm, and he was invited to demonstrate both of them to Lenin. Lenin was very impressed by Termen -- he wrote to Trotsky later talking about Termen's inventions, and how the automatic burglar alarm might reduce the number of guards needed to guard a perimeter. But he was also impressed by Termen's musical invention. Termen held his hands to play through the first half of a melody, before leaving the Russian leader to play the second half by himself -- apparently he made quite a good job of it. Because of Lenin's advocacy for his work, Termen was sent around the Soviet Union on a propaganda tour -- what was known as an "agitprop tour", in the familiar Soviet way of creating portmanteau words. In 1923 the first piece of music written specially for the instrument was performed by Termen himself with the Leningrad Philharmonic, Andrey Paschenko's Symphonic Mystery for Termenvox and Orchestra. The score for that was later lost, but has been reconstructed, and the piece was given a "second premiere" in 2020 [Excerpt: Andrey Paschenko, "Symphonic Mystery for Termenvox and Orchestra" ] But the musical instrument wasn't the only scientific innovation that Termen was working on. He thought he could reverse death itself, and bring the dead back to life. He was inspired in this by the way that dead organisms could be perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost. He thought that if he could only freeze a dead person in the permafrost, he could then revive them later -- basically the same idea as the later idea of cryogenics, although Termen seems to have thought from the accounts I've read that all it would take would be to freeze and then thaw them, and not to have considered the other things that would be necessary to bring them back to life. Termen made two attempts to actually do this, or at least made preliminary moves in that direction. The first came when his assistant, a twenty-year-old woman, died of pneumonia. Termen was heartbroken at the death of someone so young, who he'd liked a great deal, and was convinced that if he could just freeze her body for a while he could soon revive her. He talked with Ioffe about this -- Ioffe was friends with the girl's family -- and Ioffe told him that he thought that he was probably right and probably could revive her. But he also thought that it would be cruel to distress the girl's parents further by discussing it with them, and so Termen didn't get his chance to experiment. He was even keener on trying his technique shortly afterwards, when Lenin died. Termen was a fervent supporter of the Revolution, and thought Lenin was a great man whose leadership was still needed -- and he had contacts within the top echelons of the Kremlin. He got in touch with them as soon as he heard of Lenin's death, in an attempt to get the opportunity to cryopreserve his corpse and revive him. Sadly, by this time it was too late. Lenin's brain had been pickled, and so the opportunity to resurrect him as a zombie Lenin was denied forever. Termen was desperately interested in the idea of bringing people back from the dead, and he wanted to pursue it further with his lab, but he was also being pushed to give demonstrations of his music, as well as doing security work -- Ioffe, it turned out, was also working as a secret agent, making various research trips to Germany that were also intended to foment Communist revolution. For now, Termen was doing more normal security work -- his burglar alarms were being used to guard bank vaults and the like, but this was at the order of the security state. But while Termen was working on his burglar alarms and musical instruments and attempts to revive dead dictators, his main project was his doctoral work, which was on the TV. We've said before in this podcast that there's no first anything, and that goes just as much for inventions as it does for music. Most inventions build on work done by others, which builds on work done by others, and so there were a lot of people building prototype TVs at this point. In Britain we tend to say "the inventor of the TV" was John Logie Baird, but Baird was working at the same time as people like the American Charles Francis Jenkins and the Japanese inventor Kenjiro Takayanagi, all of them building on earlier work by people like Archibald Low. Termen's prototype TV, the first one in Russia, came slightly later than any of those people, but was created more or less independently, and was more advanced in several ways, with a bigger screen and better resolution. Shortly after Lenin's death, Termen was invited to demonstrate his invention to Stalin, who professed himself amazed at the "magic mirror". [Excerpt: Blake Jones and the Trike Shop, "Astronauts in Trouble"] Termen was sent off to tour Europe giving demonstrations of his inventions, particularly his musical instrument. It was on this trip that he started using the Romanisation "Leon Theremin", and this is how Western media invariably referred to him. Rather than transliterate the Cyrillic spelling of his birth name, he used the French spelling his Huguenot ancestors had used before they emigrated to Russia, and called himself Leo or Leon rather than Lev. He was known throughout his life by both names, but said to a journalist in 1928 "First of all, I am not Tair-uh-MEEN. I wrote my name with French letters for French pronunciation. I am Lev Sergeyevich Tair-MEN.". We will continue to call him Termen, partly because he expressed that mild preference (though again, he definitely went by both names through choice) but also to distinguish him from the instrument, because while his invention remained known in Russia as the termenvox, in the rest of the world it became known as the theremin. He performed at the Paris Opera, and the New York Times printed a review saying "Some musicians were extremely pessimistic about the possibilities of the device, because at times M. Theremin played lamentably out of tune. But the finest Stradivarius, in the hands of a tyro, can give forth frightful sounds. The fact that the inventor was able to perform certain pieces with absolute precision proves that there remains to be solved only questions of practice and technique." Termen also came to the UK, where he performed in front of an audience including George Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, Henry Wood and others. Arnold Bennett was astonished, but Bernard Shaw, who had very strong opinions about music, as anyone who has read his criticism will be aware, compared the sound unfavourably to that of a comb and paper. After performing in Europe, Termen made his way to the US, to continue his work of performance, propagandising for the Soviet Revolution, and trying to license the patents for his inventions, to bring money both to him and to the Soviet state. He entered the US on a six-month visitor's visa, but stayed there for eleven years, renewing the visa every six months. His initial tour was a success, though at least one open-air concert had to be cancelled because, as the Communist newspaper the Daily Worker put it, "the weather on Saturday took such a counter-revolutionary turn". Nicolas Slonimsky, the musicologist we've encountered several times before, and who would become part of Termen's circle in the US, reviewed one of the performances, and described the peculiar audiences that Termen was getting -- "a considerable crop of ladies and gentlemen engaged in earnest exploration of the Great Beyond...the mental processes peculiar to believers in cosmic vibrations imparted a beatific look to some of the listeners. Boston is a seat of scientific religion; before he knows it Professor Theremin may be proclaimed Krishnamurti and sanctified as a new deity". Termen licensed his patents on the invention to RCA, who in 1929 started mass-producing the first ever theremins for general use. Termen also started working with the conductor Leopold Stokowski, including developing a new kind of theremin for Stokowski's orchestra to use, one with a fingerboard played like a cello. Stokowski said "I believe we shall have orchestras of these electric instruments. Thus will begin a new era in music history, just as modern materials and methods of construction have produced a new era of architecture." Possibly of more interest to the wider public, Lennington Sherwell, the son of an RCA salesman, took up the theremin professionally, and joined the band of Rudy Vallee, one of the most popular singers of the period. Vallee was someone who constantly experimented with new sounds, and has for example been named as the first band leader to use an electric banjo, and Vallee liked the sound of the theremin so much he ordered a custom-built left-handed one for himself. Sherwell stayed in Vallee's band for quite a while, and performed with him on the radio and in recording sessions, but it's very difficult to hear him in any of the recordings -- the recording equipment in use in 1930 was very primitive, and Vallee had a very big band with a lot of string and horn players, and his arrangements tended to have lots of instruments playing in unison rather than playing individual lines that are easy to differentiate. On top of that, the fashion at the time when playing the instrument was to try and have it sound as much like other instruments as possible -- to duplicate the sound of a cello or violin or clarinet, rather than to lean in to the instrument's own idiosyncracies. I *think* though that I can hear Sherwell's playing in the instrumental break of Vallee's big hit "You're Driving Me Crazy" -- certainly it was recorded at the time that Sherwell was in the band, and there's an instrument in there with a very pure tone, but quite a lot of vibrato, in the mid range, that seems only to be playing in the break and not the rest of the song. I'm not saying this is *definitely* a theremin solo on one of the biggest hits of 1930, but I'm not saying it's not, either: [Excerpt: Rudy Vallee, "You're Driving Me Crazy" ] Termen also invented a light show to go along with his instrument -- the illumovox, which had a light shining through a strip of gelatin of different colours, which would be rotated depending on the pitch of the theremin, so that lower notes would cause the light to shine a deep red, while the highest notes would make it shine a light blue, with different shades in between. By 1930, though, Termen's fortunes had started to turn slightly. Stokowski kept using theremins in the orchestra for a while, especially the fingerboard models to reinforce the bass, but they caused problems. As Slonimsky said "The infrasonic vibrations were so powerful...that they hit the stomach physically, causing near-nausea in the double-bass section of the orchestra". Fairly soon, the Theremin was overtaken by other instruments, like the ondes martenot, an instrument very similar to the theremin but with more precise control, and with a wider range of available timbres. And in 1931, RCA was sued by another company for patent infringement with regard to the Theremin -- the De Forest Radio Company had patents around the use of vacuum tubes in music, and they claimed damages of six thousand dollars, plus RCA had to stop making theremins. Since at the time, RCA had only made an initial batch of five hundred instruments total, and had sold 485 of them, many of them as promotional loss-leaders for future batches, they had actually made a loss of three hundred dollars even before the six thousand dollar damages, and decided not to renew their option on Termen's patents. But Termen was still working on his musical ideas. Slonimsky also introduced Termen to the avant-garde composer and theosophist Henry Cowell, who was interested in experimental sounds, and used to do things like play the strings inside the piano to get a different tone: [Excerpt: Henry Cowell, "Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance"] Cowell was part of a circle of composers and musicologists that included Edgard Varese, Charles Ives, and Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford, who Cowell would introduce to each other. Crawford would later marry Seeger, and they would have several children together, including the folk singer Peggy Seeger, and Crawford would also adopt Seeger's son Pete. Cowell and Termen would together invent the rhythmicon, the first ever drum machine, though the rhythmicon could play notes as well as rhythms. Only two rhythmicons were made while Termen was in the US. The first was owned by Cowell. The second, improved, model was bought by Charles Ives, but bought as a gift for Cowell and Slonimsky to use in their compositions. Sadly, both rhythmicons eventually broke down, and no recording of either is known to exist. Termen started to get further and further into debt, especially as the Great Depression started to hit, and he also had a personal loss -- he'd been training a student and had fallen in love with her, although he was married. But when she married herself, he cut off all ties with her, though Clara Rockmore would become one of the few people to use the instrument seriously and become a real virtuoso on it. He moved into other fields, all loosely based around the same basic ideas of detecting someone's distance from an object. He built electronic gun detectors for Alcatraz and Sing-Sing prisons, and he came up with an altimeter for aeroplanes. There was also a "magic mirror" -- glass that appeared like a mirror until it was backlit, at which point it became transparent. This was put into shop windows along with a proximity detector -- every time someone stepped close to look at their reflection, the reflection would disappear and be replaced with the objects behind the mirror. He was also by this point having to spy for the USSR on a more regular basis. Every week he would meet up in a cafe with two diplomats from the Russian embassy, who would order him to drink several shots of vodka -- the idea was that they would loosen his inhibitions enough that he would not be able to hide things from them -- before he related various bits of industrial espionage he'd done for them. Having inventions of his own meant he was able to talk with engineers in the aerospace industry and get all sorts of bits of information that would otherwise not have been available, and he fed this back to Moscow. He eventually divorced his first wife, and remarried -- a Black American dancer many years his junior named Lavinia Williams, who would be the great love of his life. This caused some scandal in his social circle, more because of her race than the age gap. But by 1938 he had to leave the US. He'd been there on a six-month visa, which had been renewed every six months for more than a decade, and he'd also not been paying income tax and was massively in debt. He smuggled himself back to the USSR, but his wife was, at the last minute, not allowed on to the ship with him. He'd had to make the arrangements in secret, and hadn't even told her of the plans, so the first she knew was when he disappeared. He would later claim that the Soviets had told him she would be sent for two weeks later, but she had no knowledge of any of this. For decades, Lavinia would not even know if her husband was dead or alive. [Excerpt: Blake Jones and the Trike Shop, "Astronauts in Trouble"] When Termen got back to the USSR, he found it had changed beyond recognition. Stalin's reign of terror was now well underway, and not only could he not find a job, most of the people who he'd been in contact with at the top of the Kremlin had been purged. Termen was himself arrested and tortured into signing a false confession to counter-revolutionary activities and membership of fascist organisations. He was sentenced to eight years in a forced labour camp, which in reality was a death sentence -- it was expected that workers there would work themselves to death on starvation rations long before their sentences were up -- but relatively quickly he was transferred to a special prison where people with experience of aeronautical design were working. He was still a prisoner, but in conditions not too far removed from normal civilian life, and allowed to do scientific and technical work with some of the greatest experts in the field -- almost all of whom had also been arrested in one purge or another. One of the pieces of work Termen did was at the direct order of Laventy Beria, Stalin's right-hand man and the architect of most of the terrors of the Stalinist regime. In Spring 1945, while the USA and USSR were still supposed to be allies in World War II, Beria wanted to bug the residence of the US ambassador, and got Termen to design a bug that would get past all the normal screenings. The bug that Termen designed was entirely passive and unpowered -- it did nothing unless a microwave beam of a precise frequency was beamed at it, and only then did it start transmitting. It was placed in a wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States, presented to the ambassador by a troupe of scouts as a gesture of friendship between the two countries. The wood in the eagle's beak was thin enough to let the sound through. It remained there for seven years, through the tenures of four ambassadors, only being unmasked when a British radio operator accidentally tuned to the frequency it was transmitting on and was horrified to hear secret diplomatic conversations. Upon its discovery, the US couldn't figure out how it worked, and eventually shared the information with MI5, who took eighteen months to reverse-engineer Termen's bug and come up with their own, which remained the standard bug in use for about a decade. The CIA's own attempts to reverse-engineer it failed altogether. It was also Termen who came up with that well-known bit of spycraft -- focussing an infra-red beam on a window pane, to use it to pick up the sound of conversations happening in the room behind it. Beria was so pleased with Termen's inventions that he got Termen to start bugging Stalin himself, so Beria would be able to keep track of Stalin's whims. Termen performed such great services for Beria that Beria actually allowed him to go free not long after his sentence was served. Not only that, but Beria nominated Termen for the Stalin Award, Class II, for his espionage work -- and Stalin, not realising that Termen had been bugging *him* as well as foreign powers, actually upgraded that to a Class I, the highest honour the Soviet state gave. While Termen was free, he found himself at a loose end, and ended up volunteering to work for the organisation he had been working for -- which went by many names but became known as the KGB from the 1950s onwards. He tried to persuade the government to let Lavinia, who he hadn't seen in eight years, come over and join him, but they wouldn't even allow him to contact her, and he eventually remarried. Meanwhile, after Stalin's death, Beria was arrested for his crimes, and charged under the same law that he had had Termen convicted under. Beria wasn't as lucky as Termen, though, and was executed. By 1964, Termen had had enough of the KGB, because they wanted him to investigate obvious pseudoscience -- they wanted him to look into aliens, UFOs, ESP... and telepathy. [Excerpt, The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations (early version)" "She's already working on my brain"] He quit and went back to civilian life. He started working in the acoustics lab in Moscow Conservatory, although he had to start at the bottom because everything he'd been doing for more than a quarter of a century was classified. He also wrote a short book on electronic music. In the late sixties an article on him was published in the US -- the first sign any of his old friends had that he'd not died nearly thirty years earlier. They started corresponding with him, and he became a minor celebrity again, but this was disapproved of by the Soviet government -- electronic music was still considered bourgeois decadence and not suitable for the Soviet Union, and all his instruments were smashed and he was sacked from the conservatory. He continued working in various technical jobs until the 1980s, and still continued inventing refinements of the theremin, although he never had any official support for his work. In the eighties, a writer tried to get him some sort of official recognition -- the Stalin Prize was secret -- and the university at which he was working sent a reply saying, in part, "L.S. Termen took part in research conducted by the department as an ordinary worker and he did not show enough creative activity, nor does he have any achievements on the basis of which he could be recommended for a Government decoration." By this time he was living in shared accommodation with a bunch of other people, one room to himself and using a shared bathroom, kitchen, and so on. After Glasnost he did some interviews and was asked about this, and said "I never wanted to make demands and don't want to now. I phoned the housing department about three months ago and inquired about my turn to have a new flat. The woman told me that my turn would come in five or six years. Not a very reassuring answer if one is ninety-two years old." In 1989 he was finally allowed out of the USSR again, for the first time in fifty-one years, to attend a UNESCO sponsored symposium on electronic music. Among other things, he was given, forty-eight years late, a letter that his old colleague Edgard Varese had sent about his composition Ecuatorial, which had originally been written for theremin. Varese had wanted to revise the work, and had wanted to get modified theremins that could do what he wanted, and had asked the inventor for help, but the letter had been suppressed by the Soviet government. When he got no reply, Varese had switched to using ondes martenot instead. [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Ecuatorial"] In the 1970s, after the death of his third wife, Termen had started an occasional correspondence with his second wife, Lavinia, the one who had not been able to come with him to the USSR and hadn't known if he was alive for so many decades. She was now a prominent activist in Haiti, having established dance schools in many Caribbean countries, and Termen still held out hope that they could be reunited, even writing her a letter in 1988 proposing remarriage. But sadly, less than a month after Termen's first trip outside the USSR, she died -- officially of a heart attack or food poisoning, but there's a strong suspicion that she was murdered by the military dictatorship for her closeness to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the pro-democracy activist who later became President of Haiti. Termen was finally allowed to join the Communist Party in the spring of 1991, just before the USSR finally dissolved -- he'd been forbidden up to that point because of his conviction for counter-revolutionary crimes. He was asked by a Western friend why he'd done that when everyone else was trying to *leave* the Communist Party, and he explained that he'd made a promise to Lenin. In his final years he was researching immortality, going back to the work he had done in his youth, working with biologists, trying to find a way to restore elderly bodies to youthful vigour. But sadly he died in 1993, aged ninety-seven, before he achieved his goal. On one of his last trips outside the USSR, in 1991, he visited the US, and in California he finally got to hear the song that most people associate with his invention, even though it didn't actually feature a theremin: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations"] Back in the 1930s, when he was working with Slonimsky and Varese and Ives and the rest, Termen had set up the Theremin Studio, a sort of experimental arts lab, and in 1931 he had invited the musicologist, composer, and theoretician Joseph Schillinger to become a lecturer there. Schillinger had been one of the first composers to be really interested in the theremin, and had composed a very early piece written specifically for the instrument, the First Airphonic Suite: [Excerpt: Joseph Schillinger, "First Airphonic Suite"] But he was most influential as a theoretician. Schillinger believed that all of the arts were susceptible to rigorous mathematical analysis, and that you could use that analysis to generate new art according to mathematical principles, art that would be perfect. Schillinger planned to work with Termen to try to invent a machine that could compose, perform, and transmit music. The idea was that someone would be able to tune in a radio and listen to a piece of music in real time as it was being algorithmically composed and transmitted. The two men never achieved this, but Schillinger became very, very, respected as someone with a rigorous theory of musical structure -- though reading his magnum opus, the Schillinger System of Musical Composition, is frankly like wading through treacle. I'll read a short excerpt just to give an idea of his thinking: "On the receiving end, phasic stimuli produced by instruments encounter a metamorphic auditory integrator. This integrator represents the auditory apparatus as a whole and is a complex interdependent system. It consists of two receivers (ears), transmitters, auditory nerves, and a transformer, the auditory braincenter. The response to a stimulus is integrated both quantitatively and selectively. The neuronic energy of response becomes the psychonic energy of auditory image. The response to stimuli and the process of integration are functional operations and, as such, can be described in mathematical terms , i.e., as synchronization, addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. But these integrative processes alone do not constitute the material of orchestration either. The auditory image, whether resulting from phasic stimuli of an excitor or from selfstimulation of the auditory brain-center, can be described only in Psychological terms, of loudness, pitch, quality, etc. This leads us to the conclusion that the material of orchestration can be defined only as a group of conditions under which an integrated image results from a sonic stimulus subjected to an auditory response. This constitutes an interdependent tripartite system, in which the existence of one component necessitates the existence of two others. The composer can imagine an integrated sonic form, yet he cannot transmit it to the auditor (unless telepathicaliy) without sonic stimulus and hearing apparatus." That's Schillinger's way of saying that if a composer wants someone to hear the music they've written, the composer needs a musical instrument and the listener needs ears and a brain. This kind of revolutionary insight made Schillinger immensely sought after in the early 1930s, and among his pupils were the swing bandleaders Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, and the songwriter George Gershwin, who turned to Schillinger for advice when he was writing his opera Porgy and Bess: [Excerpt: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, "Here Come De Honey Man"] Another of his pupils was the trombonist and arranger Glenn Miller, who at that time was a session player working in pickup studio bands for people like Red Nichols. Miller spent some time studying with him in the early thirties, and applied those lessons when given the job of putting together arrangements for Ray Noble, his first prominent job. In 1938 Glenn Miller walked into a strip joint to see a nineteen-year-old he'd been told to take a look at. This was another trombonist, Paul Tanner, who was at the time working as a backing musician for the strippers. Miller had recently broken up his first big band, after a complete lack of success, and was looking to put together a new big band, to play arrangements in the style he had worked out while working for Noble. As Tanner later put it "he said, `Well, how soon can you come with me?' I said, `I can come right now.' I told him I was all packed, I had my toothbrush in my pocket and everything. And so I went with him that night, and I stayed with him until he broke the band up in September 1942." The new band spent a few months playing the kind of gigs that an unknown band can get, but they soon had a massive success with a song Miller had originally written as an arranging exercise set for him by Schillinger, a song that started out under the title "Miller's Tune", but soon became known worldwide as "Moonlight Serenade": [Excerpt: Glenn Miller, "Moonlight Serenade"] The Miller band had a lot of lineup changes in the four and a bit years it was together, but other than Miller himself there were only four members who were with that group throughout its career, from the early dates opening for Freddie Fisher and His Schnickelfritzers right through to its end as the most popular band in America. They were piano player Chummy MacGregor, clarinet player Wilbur Schwartz, tenor sax player Tex Beneke, and Tanner. They played on all of Miller's big hits, like "In the Mood" and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo": [Excerpt: Glenn Miller, "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"] But in September 1942, the band broke up as the members entered the armed forces, and Tanner found himself in the Army while Miller was in the Air Force, so while both played in military bands, they weren't playing together, and Miller disappeared over the Channel, presumed dead, in 1944. Tanner became a session trombonist, based in LA, and in 1958 he found himself on a session for a film soundtrack with Dr. Samuel Hoffman. I haven't been able to discover for sure which film this was for, but the only film on which Hoffman has an IMDB credit for that year is that American International Pictures classic, Earth Vs The Spider: [Excerpt: Earth Vs The Spider trailer] Hoffman was a chiropodist, and that was how he made most of his living, but as a teenager in the 1930s he had been a professional violin player under the name Hal Hope. One of the bands he played in was led by a man named Jolly Coburn, who had seen Rudy Vallee's band with their theremin and decided to take it up himself. Hoffman had then also got a theremin, and started his own all-electronic trio, with a Hammond organ player, and with a cello-style fingerboard theremin played by William Schuman, the future Pulitzer Prize winning composer. By the 1940s, Hoffman was a full-time doctor, but he'd retained his Musicians' Union card just in case the odd gig came along, and then in 1945 he received a call from Miklos Rozsa, who was working on the soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's new film, Spellbound. Rozsa had tried to get Clara Rockmore, the one true virtuoso on the theremin playing at the time, to play on the soundtrack, but she'd refused -- she didn't do film soundtrack work, because in her experience they only wanted her to play on films about ghosts or aliens, and she thought it damaged the dignity of the instrument. Rozsa turned to the American Federation of Musicians, who as it turned out had precisely one theremin player who could read music and wasn't called Clara Rockmore on their books. So Dr. Samuel Hoffman, chiropodist, suddenly found himself playing on one of the most highly regarded soundtracks of one of the most successful films of the forties: [Excerpt: Miklos Rozsa, "Spellbound"] Rozsa soon asked Hoffman to play on another soundtrack, for the Billy Wilder film The Lost Weekend, another of the great classics of late forties cinema. Both films' soundtracks were nominated for the Oscar, and Spellbound's won, and Hoffman soon found himself in demand as a session player. Hoffman didn't have any of Rockmore's qualms about playing on science fiction and horror films, and anyone with any love of the genre will have heard his playing on genre classics like The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr T, The Thing From Another World, It Came From Outer Space, and of course Bernard Hermann's score for The Day The Earth Stood Still: [Excerpt: The Day The Earth Stood Still score] As well as on such less-than-classics as The Devil's Weed, Voodoo Island, The Mad Magician, and of course Billy The Kid Vs Dracula. Hoffman became something of a celebrity, and also recorded several albums of lounge music with a band led by Les Baxter, like the massive hit Music Out Of The Moon, featuring tracks like “Lunar Rhapsody”: [Excerpt: Samuel Hoffman, "Lunar Rhapsody”] [Excerpt: Neil Armstrong] That voice you heard there was Neil Armstrong, on Apollo 11 on its way back from the moon. He took a tape of Hoffman's album with him. But while Hoffman was something of a celebrity in the fifties, the work dried up almost overnight in 1958 when he worked at that session with Paul Tanner. The theremin is a very difficult instrument to play, and while Hoffman was a good player, he wasn't a great one -- he was getting the work because he was the best in a very small pool of players, not because he was objectively the best there could be. Tanner noticed that Hoffman was having quite some difficulty getting the pitching right in the session, and realised that the theremin must be a very difficult instrument to play because it had no markings at all. So he decided to build an instrument that had the same sound, but that was more sensibly controlled than just waving your hands near it. He built his own invention, the electrotheremin, in less than a week, despite never before having had any experience in electrical engineering. He built it using an oscillator, a length of piano wire and a contact switch that could be slid up and down the wire, changing the pitch. Two days after he finished building it, he was in the studio, cutting his own equivalent of Hoffman's forties albums, Music For Heavenly Bodies, including a new exotica version of "Moonlight Serenade", the song that Glenn Miller had written decades earlier as an exercise for Schillinger: [Excerpt: Paul Tanner, "Moonlight Serenade"] Not only could the electrotheremin let the player control the pitch more accurately, but it could also do staccato notes easily -- something that's almost impossible with an actual theremin. And, on top of that, Tanner was cheaper than Hoffman. An instrumentalist hired to play two instruments is paid extra, but not as much extra as paying for another musician to come to the session, and since Tanner was a first-call trombone player who was likely to be at the session *anyway*, you might as well hire him if you want a theremin sound, rather than paying for Hoffman. Tanner was an excellent musician -- he was a professor of music at UCLA as well as being a session player, and he authored one of the standard textbooks on jazz -- and soon he had cornered the market, leaving Hoffman with only the occasional gig. We will actually be seeing Hoffman again, playing on a session for an artist we're going to look at in a couple of months, but in LA in the early sixties, if you wanted a theremin sound, you didn't hire a theremin player, you hired Paul Tanner to play his electrotheremin -- though the instrument was so obscure that many people didn't realise he wasn't actually playing a theremin. Certainly Brian Wilson seems to have thought he was when he hired him for "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"] We talked briefly about that track back in the episode on "God Only Knows", but three days after recording that, Tanner was called back into the studio for another session on which Brian Wilson wanted a theremin sound. This was a song titled "Good, Good, Good Vibrations", and it was inspired by a conversation he'd had with his mother as a child. He'd asked her why dogs bark at some people and not at others, and she'd said that dogs could sense vibrations that people sent out, and some people had bad vibrations and some had good ones. It's possible that this came back to mind as he was planning the Pet Sounds album, which of course ends with the sound of his own dogs barking. It's also possible that he was thinking more generally about ideas like telepathy -- he had been starting to experiment with acid by this point, and was hanging around with a crowd of people who were proto-hippies, and reading up on a lot of the mystical ideas that were shared by those people. As we saw in the last episode, there was a huge crossover between people who were being influenced by drugs, people who were interested in Eastern religion, and people who were interested in what we now might think of as pseudo-science but at the time seemed to have a reasonable amount of validity, things like telepathy and remote viewing. Wilson had also had exposure from an early age to people claiming psychic powers. Jo Ann Marks, the Wilson family's neighbour and the mother of former Beach Boy David Marks, later had something of a minor career as a psychic to the stars (at least according to obituaries posted by her son) and she would often talk about being able to sense "vibrations". The record Wilson started out making in February 1966 with the Wrecking Crew was intended as an R&B single, and was also intended to sound *strange*: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: Gold Star 1966-02-18"] At this stage, the song he was working on was a very straightforward verse-chorus structure, and it was going to be an altogether conventional pop song. The verses -- which actually ended up used in the final single, are dominated by organ and Ray Pohlman's bass: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: Gold Star 1966-02-18"] These bear a strong resemblance to the verses of "Here Today", on the Pet Sounds album which the Beach Boys were still in the middle of making: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Here Today (instrumental)"] But the chorus had far more of an R&B feel than anything the Beach Boys had done before: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: Gold Star 1966-02-18"] It did, though, have precedent. The origins of the chorus feel come from "Can I Get a Witness?", a Holland-Dozier-Holland song that had been a hit for Marvin Gaye in 1963: [Excerpt: Marvin Gaye, "Can I Get a Witness?"] The Beach Boys had picked up on that, and also on its similarity to the feel of Lonnie Mack's instrumental cover version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee", which, retitled "Memphis", had also been a hit in 1963, and in 1964 they recorded an instrumental which they called "Memphis Beach" while they were recording it but later retitled "Carl's Big Chance", which was credited to Brian and Carl Wilson, but was basically just playing the "Can I Get a Witness" riff over twelve-bar blues changes, with Carl doing some surf guitar over the top: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Carl's Big Chance"] The "Can I Get a Witness" feel had quickly become a standard piece of the musical toolkit – you might notice the resemblance between that riff and the “talking 'bout my generation” backing vocals on “My Generation” by the Who, for example. It was also used on "The Boy From New York City", a hit on Red Bird Records by the Ad-Libs: [Excerpt: The Ad-Libs, "The Boy From New York City"] The Beach Boys had definitely been aware of that record -- on their 1965 album Summer Days... And Summer Nights! they recorded an answer song to it, "The Girl From New York City": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "The Girl From New York City"] And you can see how influenced Brian was by the Ad-Libs record by laying the early instrumental takes of the "Good Vibrations" chorus from this February session under the vocal intro of "The Boy From New York City". It's not a perfect match, but you can definitely hear that there's an influence there: [Excerpt: "The Boy From New York City"/"Good Vibrations"] A few days later, Brian had Carl Wilson overdub some extra bass, got a musician in to do a jaw harp overdub, and they also did a guide vocal, which I've sometimes seen credited to Brian and sometimes Carl, and can hear as both of them depending on what I'm listening for. This guide vocal used a set of placeholder lyrics written by Brian's collaborator Tony Asher, which weren't intended to be a final lyric: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations (first version)"] Brian then put the track away for a month, while he continued work on the Pet Sounds album. At this point, as best we can gather, he was thinking of it as something of a failed experiment. In the first of the two autobiographies credited to Brian (one whose authenticity is dubious, as it was largely put together by a ghostwriter and Brian later said he'd never even read it) he talks about how he was actually planning to give the song to Wilson Pickett rather than keep it for the Beach Boys, and one can definitely imagine a Wilson Pickett version of the song as it was at this point. But Brian's friend Danny Hutton, at that time still a minor session singer who had not yet gone on to form the group that would become Three Dog Night, asked Brian if *he* could have the song if Brian wasn't going to use it. And this seems to have spurred Brian into rethinking the whole song. And in doing so he was inspired by his very first ever musical memory. Brian has talked a lot about how the first record he remembers hearing was when he was two years old, at his maternal grandmother's house, where he heard the Glenn Miller version of "Rhapsody in Blue", a three-minute cut-down version of Gershwin's masterpiece, on which Paul Tanner had of course coincidentally played: [Excerpt: The Glenn Miller Orchestra, "Rhapsody in Blue"] Hearing that music, which Brian's mother also played for him a lot as a child, was one of the most profoundly moving experiences of Brian's young life, and "Rhapsody in Blue" has become one of those touchstone pieces that he returns to again and again. He has recorded studio versions of it twice, in the mid-nineties with Van Dyke Parks: [Excerpt: Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, "Rhapsody in Blue"] and in 2010 with his solo band, as the intro and outro of an album of Gershwin covers: [Excerpt: Brian Wilson, "Rhapsody in Blue"] You'll also often see clips of him playing "Rhapsody in Blue" when sat at the piano -- it's one of his go-to songs. So he decided he was going to come up with a song that was structured like "Rhapsody in Blue" -- what publicist Derek Taylor would later describe as a "pocket symphony", but "pocket rhapsody" would possibly be a better term for it. It was going to be one continuous song, but in different sections that would have different instrumentation and different feelings to them -- he'd even record them in different studios to get different sounds for them, though he would still often have the musicians run through the whole song in each studio. He would mix and match the sections in the edit. His second attempt to record the whole track, at the start of April, gave a sign of what he was attempting, though he would not end up using any of the material from this session: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: Gold Star 1966-04-09" around 02:34] Nearly a month later, on the fourth of May, he was back in the studio -- this time in Western Studios rather than Gold Star where the previous sessions had been held, with yet another selection of musicians from the Wrecking Crew, plus Tanner, to record another version. This time, part of the session was used for the bridge for the eventual single: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations: Western 1966-05-04 Second Chorus and Fade"] On the twenty-fourth of May the Wrecking Crew, with Carl Wilson on Fender bass (while Lyle Ritz continued to play string bass, and Carol Kaye, who didn't end up on the finished record at all, but who was on many of the unused sessions, played Danelectro), had another attempt at the track, this time in Sunset Studios: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations: Sunset Sound 1966-05-24 (Parts 2&3)"] Three days later, another group of musicians, with Carl now switched to rhythm guitar, were back in Western Studios recording this: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations: Western 1966-05-27 Part C" from 2:52] The fade from that session was used in the final track. A few days later they were in the studio again, a smaller group of people with Carl on guitar and Brian on piano, along with Don Randi on electric harpsichord, Bill Pitman on electric bass, Lyle Ritz on string bass and Hal Blaine on drums. This time there seems to have been another inspiration, though I've never heard it mentioned as an influence. In March, a band called The Association, who were friends with the Beach Boys, had released their single "Along Comes Mary", and by June it had become a big hit: [Excerpt: The Association, "Along Comes Mary"] Now the fuzz bass part they were using on the session on the second of June sounds to my ears very, very, like that intro: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations (Inspiration) Western 1966-06-02" from 01:47] That session produced the basic track that was used for the choruses on the final single, onto which the electrotheremin was later overdubbed as Tanner wasn't at that session. Some time around this point, someone suggested to Brian that they should use a cello along with the electrotheremin in the choruses, playing triplets on the low notes. Brian has usually said that this was Carl's idea, while Brian's friend Van Dyke Parks has always said that he gave Brian the idea. Both seem quite certain of this, and neither has any reason to lie, so I suspect what might have happened is that Parks gave Brian the initial idea to have a cello on the track, while Carl in the studio suggested having it specifically play triplets. Either way, a cello part by Jesse Erlich was added to those choruses. There were more sessions in June, but everything from those sessions was scrapped. At some point around this time, Mike Love came up with a bass vocal lyric, which he sang along with the bass in the choruses in a group vocal session. On August the twenty-fourth, two months after what one would think at this point was the final instrumental session, a rough edit of the track was pulled together. By this point the chorus had altered quite a bit. It had originally just been eight bars of G-flat, four bars of B-flat, then four more bars of G-flat. But now Brian had decided to rework an idea he had used in "California Girls". In that song, each repetition of the line "I wish they all could be California" starts a tone lower than the one before. Here, after the bass hook line is repeated, everything moves up a step, repeats the line, and then moves up another step: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: [Alternate Edit] 1966-08-24"] But Brian was dissatisfied with this version of the track. The lyrics obviously still needed rewriting, but more than that, there was a section he thought needed totally rerecording -- this bit: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations: [Alternate Edit] 1966-08-24"] So on the first of September, six and a half months after the first instrumental session for the song, the final one took place. This had Dennis Wilson on organ, Tommy Morgan on harmonicas, Lyle Ritz on string bass, and Hal Blaine and Carl Wilson on percussion, and replaced that with a new, gentler, version: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations (Western 1966-09-01) [New Bridge]"] Well, that was almost the final instrumental session -- they called Paul Tanner in to a vocal overdub session to redo some of the electrotheremin parts, but that was basically it. Now all they had to do was do the final vocals. Oh, and they needed some proper lyrics. By this point Brian was no longer working with Tony Asher. He'd started working with Van Dyke Parks on some songs, but Parks wasn't interested in stepping into a track that had already been worked on so long, so Brian eventually turned to Mike Love, who'd already come up with the bass vocal hook, to write the lyrics. Love wrote them in the car, on the way to the studio, dictating them to his wife as he drove, and they're actually some of his best work. The first verse grounds everything in the sensory, in the earthy. He makes a song originally about *extra* -sensory perception into one about sensory perception -- the first verse covers sight, sound, and smell: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations"] Carl Wilson was chosen to sing the lead vocal, but you'll notice a slight change in timbre on the line "I hear the sound of a" -- that's Brian stepping into double him on the high notes. Listen again: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations"] For the second verse, Love's lyric moves from the sensory grounding of the first verse to the extrasensory perception that the song has always been about, with the protagonist knowing things about the woman who's the object of the song without directly perceiving them. The record is one of those where I wish I was able to play the whole thing for you, because it's a masterpiece of structure, and of editing, and of dynamics. It's also a record that even now is impossible to replicate properly on stage, though both its writers in their live performances come very close. But while someone in the audience for either the current touring Beach Boys led by Mike Love or for Brian Wilson's solo shows might come away thinking "that sounded just like the record", both have radically different interpretations of it even while sticking close to the original arrangement. The touring Beach Boys' version is all throbbing strangeness, almost garage-rock, emphasising the psychedelia of the track: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations (live 2014)"] While Brian Wilson's live version is more meditative, emphasising the gentle aspects: [Excerpt Brian Wilson, "Good Vibrations (live at the Roxy)"] But back in 1966, there was definitely no way to reproduce it live with a five-person band. According to Tanner, they actually asked him if he would tour with them, but he refused -- his touring days were over, and also he felt he would look ridiculous, a middle-aged man on stage with a bunch of young rock and roll stars, though apparently they offered to buy him a wig so he wouldn't look so out of place. When he wouldn't tour with them, they asked him where they could get a theremin, and he pointed them in the direction of Robert Moog. Moog -- whose name is spelled M-o-o-g and often mispronounced "moog", had been a teenager in 1949, when he'd seen a schematic for a theremin in an electronic hobbyist magazine, after Samuel Hoffman had brought the instrument back into the limelight. He'd built his own, and started building others to sell to other hobbyists, and had also started branching out into other electronic instruments by the mid-sixties. His small company was the only one still manufacturing actual theremins, but when the Beach Boys came to him and asked him for one, they found it very difficult to control, and asked him if he could do anything simpler. He came up with a ribbon-controlled oscillator, on the same principle as Tanner's electro-theremin, but even simpler to operate, and the Beach Boys bought it and gave it to Mike Love to play on stage. All he had to do was run his finger up and down a metallic ribbon, with the positions of the notes marked on it, and it would come up with a good approximation of the electro-theremin sound. Love played this "woo-woo machine" as he referred to it, on stage for several years: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Good Vibrations (live in Hawaii 8/26/67)"] Moog was at the time starting to build his first synthesisers, and having developed that ribbon-control mechanism he decided to include it in the early models as one of several different methods of controlling the Moog synthesiser, the instrument that became synonymous with the synthesiser in the late sixties and early seventies: [Excerpt: Gershon Kingsley and Leonid Hambro, "Rhapsody in Blue" from Switched-On Gershwin] "Good Vibrations" became the Beach Boys' biggest ever hit -- their third US number one, and their first to make number one in the UK. Brian Wilson had managed, with the help of his collaborators, to make something that combined avant-garde psychedelic music and catchy pop hooks, a truly experimental record that was also a genuine pop classic. To this day, it's often cited as the greatest single of all time. But Brian knew he could do better. He could be even more progressive. He could make an entire album using the same techniques as "Good Vibrations", one where themes could recur, where sections could be edited together and songs could be constructed in the edit. Instead of a pocket symphony, he could make a full-blown teenage symphony to God. All he had to do was to keep looking forward, believe he could achieve his goal, and whatever happened, not lose his nerve and turn back. [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Smile Promo" ]
This week, it's John Carpenter's THE THING! At last! We have arrived at the end of our icy tour of winter horror films. Next week, we'll be wrapping up AND announcing our next miniseries
What was the original THING that came before THE THING and also before the the prequel to THE THING? It's 1951's THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, where the titular Thing is basically Carrot Frankenstein...and we fucking loved it. Really, it's worth watching.References: John Carpenter on "The Thing from Another World" The Making of "The Thing from Another World" in American Cinematographer Christian Nyby on who Directed the "The Thing From Another World" Phil Harris' "The Thing" Credits:Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced, by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.This episode was edited by Dom Nero.Our intro song for Winter Hell is a mish mosh of soundtracks and dialogue clips that are pulled from horror films that take place in the frozen cold. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's “Main Title” track for The Shining and Ennio Morricone's composition for The Thing are the central themes you hear. The outro music is the ominous end credits song from The Shining called “Midnight and the Stars are You” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with vocals by Al Bowlly. Our logo was designed by Francesca Volerich, you can purchase her work at society6.com/francescavolerich.If you'd like to advertise with us, or sponsor us, please email: Contact@EyeOfTheDuckPod.com
It's March. The end of Winter Hell is upon us. To lead us into our THE THING finale, we're warming up a little THING miniseries first. This week, it's the (mostly forgotten) 2011 prequel film directed Matthijs van Heijningen Jr…which is also called THE THING. References: The Thing (2011) Blu-Ray The Thing Effects Tests by ADI Bloody Disgusting Set Visit Part 1 Bloody Disgusting Set Visit Part 2 Interviews in Screen Rant Interviews in Electro Shadow Credits:Eye of the Duck is created, hosted, and produced, by Dom Nero and Adam Volerich.This episode was edited by Dom Nero.Our intro song for Winter Hell is a mish mosh of soundtracks and dialogue clips that are pulled from horror films that take place in the frozen cold. Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind's “Main Title” track for The Shining and Ennio Morricone's composition for The Thing are the central themes you hear. The outro music is the ominous end credits song from The Shining called “Midnight and the Stars are You” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra with vocals by Al Bowlly. Our logo was designed by Francesca Volerich, you can purchase her work at society6.com/francescavolerich.If you'd like to advertise with us, or sponsor us, please email: Contact@EyeOfTheDuckPod.com
As radio audiences left for TV, Elliott Lewis continued to champion radio as a stronger dramatic medium. On Thursday January 1st, 1953, he and wife Cathy, debuted a new dramatic anthology program over CBS. It was On Stage. On Stage was geared for adults, showcasing an eclectic array of scripts across multiple genres. To get the show off the ground, the Lewis' tabbed some of the best writers in radio, like E Jack Neuman. Stories would be rooted in powerful male-female situations, with two characters of equal strength being a main goal. They used a mix of classic and original tales, cutting across all dramatic disciplines with mysteries, adventures, melodramas, satires, and comedy. Cathy was the perfect female foil, not just because she was Elliott's wife, but because she was a superb actress. By then the west-coast's character actors were like a family. A frequent co-star was Byron Kane. Ray Noble, Fred Steiner, and Lud Gluskin's music beautifully fit the production. Ross Murray and Berne Surrey's sound patterns were exceptional. The March 10th, 1954 episode was called “The Crusade of Stanley Finston.” On Stage came at a bittersweet time in Cathy and Elliott lives. Even as CBS referred to them as Mr. and Mrs. radio, their marriage of ten years was in trouble. Cathy and Elliott divorced in 1958. Elliott would soon marry another noted actress Mary Jane Croft. For more information on Elliott Lewis' career, tune into Breaking Walls episode 113.
Features recordings by Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman, Ray Noble and more. Ronnaldo also plays some Glenn Miller to celebrate his recent birthday. Consider supporting The Big Band and Swing Podcast by becoming a Hepcat. Learn more at SupportSwing.com. * All music in this podcast are Creative Commons. Artists are credited within the podcast.
1 - Midnight Blue - Stuart Allen with Richard Himber Orchestra - 19362 - Midnight, The Stars and You - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble and his Orchestra - 19343 - Midnight on the Trail - Johnny Messner and his Music Box Band - 19384 - Midnight Rose - Henry Burr - 19235 - Midnight Waltz - Bob Haring Orchestra – 19256 - Rainbow at Midnight - Eddie Dean and his Boys - 19467 - Sailing at Midnight - Edythe Wright with Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven – 19388 - The Midnight Train - Eddie Dean and his Boys - 19479 - Midnight Special - Tiny Grimes' Quintet – 194810 - Tell Me at Midnight - Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra - 194011 - Midnight Clipper - T. J. Fowler and his Orchestra - 195012 - Midnight Blues - Rosa Henderson - 192313 - From Midnight Till Dawn - Charley Straight Orchestra – 192814 - Midnight in Paris - Nino Martini with Nathaniel Shilkret and his Orchestra - 193515 - Burning the Midnight Oil - Al Donahue and his Orchestra – 194016 - It's Midnight - Little Willie Littlefield - 194917 - 'Round About Midnight - The Thelonius Monk Quintet – 194818 - The Line is Dead - Murder at Midnight – 1946 (Radio Drama)19 - Life Ends at Midnight - Suspense – 1944 (Radio Drama)20 - Midnight - The Beasley Singers with Chet Atkins and his Galloping Guitar - 195121 – Midnight Reflections – Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra – 192822 – Midnight Rose – The Abe Lyman Orchestra – 1923
1 - Long as You Got Your Health - The Merry Macs with Ray Noble and his Orchestra – 19372 - Sick, Sober, and Sorry - Tommy Duncan and his Western All-Stars – 19513 - Oh! Doctor - Louis Panico and his Orchestra – 19304 - Hey, Doc! - The Ink Spots - 19415 - Hey, Doc! - Tyree Glenn and Cab Calloway and his Orchestra – 19416 - Doctor Jazz Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers - 19497 - Doctor Ketchum - Ernest Tubb and Red Foley – 1953 8 - I'm The Medicine Man for The Blues – Johnny Marvin with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra – 19299 - Alligator Crawl - Doc Cook and his 14 Doctors of Syncopation – 192710 - Love Doctor Blues - Gatemouth Moore with the Tiny Grimes' Swingtet - 194611 - Doctor Jazz - Jacques Kluger – 194112 - Root Doctor Blues - Dr. Clayton – 194613 - Old Doc Yak - Ray McKinley with Will Bradley and his Orchestra – 193914 - She's Just What the Doctor Ordered - Six Jumping Jacks – 192715 - Doctor Blues - Luis Russell – 192916 - Vitamin Pills - Lorraine Benson with Ray Herbeck's Orchestra – 194617 - I Need Vitamin "U" - Jerry Bowne with Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights - 194218 - The Doctor Prescribed Death - Suspense – 1943 (Radio Drama)19 - Illusion – Tales of the Texas Rangers – 1952 (Radio Drama)20 - Blues Doctor - The 6-Alarm Six - 1949
As broadcast October 29, 2021 with plenty of extra nightmares for you podcast trick-or-treaters. Tonight a rare occurrence went down on the air, as both guest artist selectors Freedom Fry and our seemingly faithful host Danno were possessed by different demons and rebaptized in blood. The Darkness as he is now known welcomed Phantom Fright to the show to have some REAL fun with Halloween on the air, and the guests played horror film soundtrack favorites and talked about some of their favorite moments in the movies. However, the host (or whatever vile thing The Darkness is) took it several steps too far during the first hour in committing an abduction of one of his young devotees then murdering and burying that poor soul, watching them rise from the grave as a zombie, cause depraved havoc in the night, and regret their ultimate sealed fate as a member of the undead army. Not to be missed for Halloween enthusiasts & big props to Bruce & Marie fka Freedom Fry for joining this nuthouse of a radio experience.Tracklisting:Part I (00:00)Michael Jackson – Thriller (The Reflex Halloween edit)Lyn Christopher – Take Me With YouSeals & Crofts – Sweet Green FieldsWar – Slippin Into DarknessAngela Alexander & JD Saddler – Don't Make Me Kill YouNorma Tanega – You're Dead Part II (30:03)The Revels – Midnight StrollKip Tyler – She's My WitchWillie West & The High Society Brothers – The Devil Gives Me EverythingThe Love Unlimited Orchestra – Midnight & YouLeon Haywood – I Wanna Do Something Freaky To YouGhost Funk Orchestra – MourningGhost Funk Orchestra – Step Back Wild ChildGhost Funk Orchestra – Fuzzy LogicGhost Funk Orchestra – Pause I Part III (59:07)Freedom Fry – MonsterCreedence Clearwater Revival – Midnight SpecialFlanagan & Allen – Run Rabbit RunAl Bowlly with Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Midnight, The Stars & YouHarry Belafonte – Banana Boat (Day-O)Kay Starr with Orchestra – Headless HorsemanMagnet – Willow's Song Part IV (67:09)Freedom Fry – Zombie LoveTito & Tarantula – After DarkHubert Kah – The Picture (Francois K 12” remix)Roger Bartlett – Fool For A BlondeLana Del Rey – Season Of The WitchJoy Division – Love Will Tear Us ApartNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
In Princeton, West Virginia sits an old abandoned amusement park that once echoed with the sound of laughter. Now it sits in decay, as time reclaims back the land where spirits now linger and call out to the living. In this episode Shay and Weebs discuss the history and hauntings of Lake Shawnee Amusement park, and Weebs will recount her experiences of the hauntings that forever changed her life. " The Serial Spirits Theme" created by Annie Weible 2018 all rights reserved Intro dialogue: "West Virginia's Haunted Amusement Park" by The Story is the thing Productions Shot and Produced by Kathryn and Gregory Douglas Imbrongo 2010 "C.O.P.S. Paranormal-Lake Shawnee Amusement Park" by Visual Vindication 2016 Narration music: "Silent Shadows: Dark winds Chp.1" by Fesliyan Studios www.fesliyanstudios.com 2018 Outro Music: "Midnight, the stars and you" by Al Bowly, Ray Noble and his orchestra 2013 Screenland Records Promos: Anxious and Afraid Podcast Twitter: @AAthepod Drink Drunk Dead Pod Twitter: @DrinkDrunkDead Morbidology Podcast Twitter: @morbidologypod Become a Patron today by visiting www.patreon.com/paranormalwarehouse "The Serial Spirits Podcast" was created by Brendan Shay and Annie Weible 2018 all rights reserved Research and Narration by Annie Weible Produced by Brendan Shay
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