Oldtime songs on the sunny side

Another sundrenched selection of merry oldtime tunes to whistle along to. Just two words, folks: get happy!



Bing Crosby – Blue prelude
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Top hat, white tie and tails
Al Dexter & his Troopers – Rosalita
Louis Jordan – Jack, you're dead
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Django Reinhardt – Sifflez et traillant (Whistle while you work)
Eartha Kitt – C'est si bon
June Christy – Get happy
Ted Weems & his Orchestra – You're the cream in my coffee
Xavier Cugat – La cucaracha
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five – Choo choo Ch'Boogie
Al Dexter & his Troopers – Triflin' Gal
Romay with Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Brazil
Patato & Totico – Mas que nada
Herbie Mann – Cuban Patato Chip
Louis Armstrong – King of the Zulus
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Bugle call rag
All Bowlly – Over the rainbow

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Oldtime songs'll fire up the BBQ

Summer's near, and so are those happy cocktail and garden parties. To get things moving and fire up that BBQ, these often rather strange but always funny tunes will spark up the night with some hot swinging fever.



John Barry – The girl with the sun in her hair
Vilayat Khan – Arrival in Benaras
Yma Sumac – La molina
Burl Ives – I walk the line
Al Dexter and his Troopers – Guitar polka
Charles Trenet – Boum!
Eartha Kitt- Somebody bad stole de wedding bell
King Sisters – It's love love love
Carmen Miranda & the Banda da Lua – Tico-tico no fuba
Harry Breuer and his Quintet – Minute merengue
James Last & his Orchestra – Happy Brasilia
Billy Mure – Hawaiian war chant
Perrey-Kingsley – Unidentified Flying Object
Serge Gainsbourg – Comic strip
Vampyros Lesbos – There's no satisfaction
Gert Wilden & his Orchestra – Dirty Beat
Milt Buckner – The Beast
The Champs – Honky tonk
Dave Brubeck – Unsquare dance
Hot Butter – Skokian
Fred Lowery – William Tell Overture
Louis Prima – Jump Jive an' Wail
Ken Nordine – Flesh
Buddy Holly – Everyday

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The Oldtime Songs Bonanza

Anything goes in this swinging selection of all time favorite oldtime songs, ideal to fire up the BBQ with, or serve as a perfect introduction to the fun and rhythms of the cracklin' oldtime tunes.


Cole Porter – Anything goes
Cliff Edwards – Singin' in the rain
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra – It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Al Dexter and his Troopers – Pistol packin' mama
Freddie Fisher & his Orchestra – The wild, wild, wild women (are making a wild man of me)
Louis Jordan – Stone cold dead in the market
Harold Boyce and his Harlem Indians – Wille Willie don't go from me
Harry Belafonte – Matilda, Matilda
Xavier Cugat – Blen,blen blen
Semi Sheheen – Dabka dance
F. Ming Pep-Steppers - Indian war whoop
Bow Wills and his Texas Playboys – Cotton-eyed Joe
Don Redman & his Orchestra – Watchin' the knife and fork spoon
Jan Garber & his Orchestra - Puttin' on the ritz
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra – Diga diga doo
Louis Armstrong – Peanut vendor
Blue Ribbon Boys – Futuristic jungle
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – Rockin' in rhythm
Fred Waring and his Pensylvanians – Dry bones
The Andrew Sisters – Aurora
Carmen Miranda & the Bando de Lua – Chica-chica-boom-chick
The Champs – Limbo rock
Yma Sumac – Bo Mambo
Louis Prima – Beep! Beep!
Burl Ives – Fooba wooba John
Chick Webb & his orchestra feat. Ella Fitzgerald – 't Ain' whatcha do it's the way that cha' do it
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Thanks

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Oldtime roaring songs

The oldtime songs travel way back to the Boardwalk Empire era, the roarin' twenties, with it's steamin' speakeasies, smokey stripclubs, swingin' decadance, happy flappers dancin' the charleston and it's bittersweet love songs. Step out folks!

Fat Waller – Lenox avenue blues
Scott Joplin – The entertainer
Al Jolson – Steppin' out
Jack Hylton – Singin' in the rain
Ted Weems & his Orchestra – My baby just cares for me
Josephine Baker – Bam bam bamy shore
Jack Hylton Band – Jeepers creepers
Fats Waller – All that meat and no potatoes
Laurel & Hardy – Honolulu Baby
Jan Garber with his Orchestra – Puttin' on the Ritz
Ted Weems & his Orchestra – What a day!
Al Lendz & his Orchestra – Sam, the old accordian man
Green Brother's Novelty Orchestra – Fascinating rhythm
Rudy Wiedoeft's Canadians – The Sheik of Araby
Ted Weems & his Orchestra – Heartaches
Jan Garber & his Orchestra – You're gonna lose your gal
Scott Joplin – Sugar Cane
Ruth Etting – Ain't misbehavin'
Ray Noble & Al Bowlly – Good night, sweetheart

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Intercontinental Oldtime Songs Journey

The oldtime songs go on a fascinating colonialtime journey, following the crosscontinental influences going back and forth between Africa and Latin America (with a short, calming stop in India) offering ever more exotic variations on age old rumba and tribal rhythms.

Yusef Lateef – The plum blossom
Fairouz – Ya ghozayel
Orchestre Créole 'Kaukira Boys' – Realto! Sense unique
Lecuona Cuban Boys – Rumba Tambah
Stella Haskil – Mes te polis ta stena (Alleways of Istanbul)
Jean Mpia – Tembele
Alphonso et son Orchestre Typique Antillais – Mettez I dhero
Mongo Santamaria – Meta rumba
Bismallah Khan and Party – Shenai instrumental
Noubar Bey – Fantasie Maggiar
Fatma El Chamyea Sudaneya– Gawadallah
Sexteto Habanero – Romantica mujer
Xavier Cugat with Miguelito Valdes – Blen, blen, blen
Tino Baroza – Jamais Kolonga
Grand Kalle – Ambiance kalle catho
Lecuona Cuban Boys – Rumba azul
Anselmo Sacasas – Rumba negra
Franco – Musica tellema
Fairouz – Hala la laya

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Oldtime songs Christmas gift

Oldtime sing- and swing-a-longs for the whole family. Burn them on a disc, wrap them up, put them under the tree and get that christmas party started. Best oldtime wishes to all!



Spike Jones & his City Slickers – All I want for christmas is my two front teeth
Vince Gauraldi Trio – Christmas time is here
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra – When the lights go on again (all over the world)
Django Reinhardt – Smoke rings
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra – In my merry oldsmobile
Charlie Christian & Benny Goodman – Seven come eleven (Roast turkey stomp)
Joe Turner & his Memphis Men – Freeze and melt
Paul Whiteman Orchestra – Christmas night in Harlem
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra – Jingle Bells Mambo
Harry Belafonte – Matilda, Matilda
The Pied Pipers – Mairzy doats
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra – Get happy
Archie Bleyer Orchestra – Too fat polka
Louis Prima – Buona sera
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra – Button up your overcoat
Hal Kemp Orchestra – Pennies from heaven
Helen Humes with the Bill Dogget Octet – Be-baba-leba
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Play fiddle, play
Billie Holiday – One for my baby (and one for the road)

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Oldtime songs matinée

Enjoy some surprising versions of old familiar tunes, laugh laugh laugh with comedy acts by Abbott & Costello and Paul Bendix, and get your feet a-stompin' with some fun swing rhythms. Cake and whisky are on the house!



Art Tatum – Jada
Ralph Marterie & his Orchestra – Caravan
Horace Heidt & his Orchestra – Man with the mandolin
Harry Bidgood & his Broadcasters – Doll dance
Ted Heath & his Music – Moulin Rouge Theme
Jan Savitt & his Top Hatters – Prelude to Carmen
Bud Raeburn's Orchestra – Over the rainbow
Budd Abbott & Lou Costello – Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!
Jan Savitt & his Top Hatter – Quaker city jazz
Horace Heidt & his Orchestra – Hot lips
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Linda mujer
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra (with Louis Armstrong) – Sugar foot stomp
Paul Bendix & his Company – Die Schnitzelbank
Elisabeth Weeler & Haydn Quartet – Mary
Billie Holiday – Everybody's laughing
Art Tatum – Danny Boy (Londonderry air)

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