Official Summer 2012 Limbo Pre-Party

Winter has lasted more than long enough now, so why not blow away the cold with some steaming mambo, African and Brazilian rhythms, a bit of rock 'n' roll and a few limbo party classics?



Les Baxter – Bom bom
Yma Sumac – Babalu
Red Nichols & his World Famous Pennies – Jungle fever
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra – One-zy, two-zy (I love you-zy)
The Matys Bros. – Muskat ramble
Les Baxter – Congo train
Harry Breuer – Bumble bee bolero
Orchestre Rock a Mambo – El rico Cuban mambo
Franco – Motindo Na Yo Te
Dewayon – Alliance mode succes
Shorty Rogers – Mambo del crow
Marco Valle – Crickets sing for Anamaria
Xavier Cugat – Mambo nr. 5
Bert Kaempfert & his Orchestra – Mambo mania
Alèmayèhu Eshèté - Telantena Zaré
Rufus Thomas – Do the funky penguin
Los Apsons – Suzy Q
The Champs – Limbo rock
Louis Prima – Banana Split for my baby
The Guitars Unlimited plus 7 – Crazy rhythm
Jo An Castle – Tico Tico
Southern Tropical Steel Band – Caramelos
Xavier Cugat – Theme from Zorba the Greek

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Sepia Sunday Matinee

A chilled and fun selection for the laidback Sunday crowd, taking it easy with some dreamy melodies and novelty oldtime tunes.



Frankie Lain – Music, maestro, please!
Fritz Kreisler – Gypsy serenade
Ted Lewis & his Band – Play, fiddle, play
Billie Holiday – Lady sings the blues
All Bowlly – The very thought of you
Al Dexter & his Troopers – Too late to worry
Eartha Kitt – I want to be evil
Peggy Lee – Similau (See-me-lo)
Yma Sumac – Accla Taqui (Chant of the chosen maidens)
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Gypsy conga
Julius LaRosa – Eh cumpari
Kay Kaiser & his Orchestra – Woody Woodpecker
The Andrew Sisters – Money is the root of all evil
Louis Jordan & his Tympani 5 – Saxa woogie
Ted Lewis & his Band – I’ll see you in C-U-B-A
Gertrude Lawrence – Poor little rich girl
Art Landry & his Orchestra – Dreamy melody
Woody Herman & his Orchestra – Blue prelude
Joseph Lamb – Ragtime nightingale

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Oldtime rockin' good songs

A nonstop feelgood selection of rocking favorites and enough cats, dogs, chickens, hawks and screaming bats to fill a dancefloor, bring it on home, folks!

Lowell Fulson – Check yourself
Willie Dixon – Bring it on home
Bill Doggett – Honky tonk part I
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen tons
Jimmy Nelson – I sat and cried
Joe Turner – The Chicken and the hawk
Cecil McNabb Jr. – Nothing like this
Roy Brown – Mr. Hound Dog’s in town
Rufus Thomas – Bear Cat
Christine Kittrell - You ain’t nothing but trouble
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Little demon
Sammy Masters – Flat feet
Tampa Red – Let me play with your poodle
Emery Blades – Look what you done to me
Jimmy Selph – Tom Catin’ around
Warren Smith – Uranium Rock
The Hurricanes – Pistol packin’ momma
Louis Prima – Oh Marie!
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – You ain’t foolin’ me
The Champs – El Rancho rock

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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

Get into the swing of things right HERE

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

Start steppin' out right HERE

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

Hop on and listen right HERE

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)

Get your Christmas tunes right HERE

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)

Step right in HERE

Oldtime songs go on the town

The oldtime songs take a night on the town, stumblin' and jumpin' from whitey's ballroom to smokey blues and ragtime shacks, sneaking a peek in an after hours speakeasy and ending up broke and high in front of the cracklin' radio.

Phil Harris – Play a simple melody
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – My hat's on the wrong side of my head
King Oliver – Shake it and break it
Fats Waller – The Sheik of Araby
Bessie Smith – Gimme a pigfoot (Gimme a reefer)
Geechie Wiley & Elvie Thomas – Skinny leg blues
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra – Blue prelude
Blanche Calloway – Growlin' Dan
Cab Calloway – The ghost of Smokey Joe
The Jungle Band – Jungle mama
Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra – Walter Winchell Rhumba
Ray McKinley & his Orchestra – Civilization (Bongo bongo bongo)
Ernest Hare & Billy Jones - That certain party
Chas Creath's Jazz-o-maniacs – King Porter's stomp
Fats Waller – Reefer song
Jack Sheedy's Dixieland Jazz Band – Gambler's blues
Bessie Smith – 't Ain' nobody's bizness if I do
Reverend Gary Davis – Candyman
Al Bowly – Kleine maat (little pal)
Ray Noble & his Orchestra – Midnight, the stars and you

Get into town right HERE

Oldtime songs're takin' it easy

A wide selection of oldtime tunes for nice 'n chilled times. Starting off with some jazzy pickings, strolling along with some country and folk sounds from the ol' west, the big rock mountains, all the way to Hawaii, and ending with some pioneers of the blues.

Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra – You're gonna lose your gal
Billie Holiday – Baby, I don't cry over you
The Ink Spots – If I didn't care
The Andrew Sisters – I'll be with you in apple blossom time
Sammy Kay and his Orchestra – Umbrella man
Ella Fitzgerald – Blues in the night
The Sons of the Pioneers – Cool Water
Burl Ives – Big rock candy mountain
The Carter Family – Wildwood flower
Bow Wills and his Texas Playboys – Cotton-eyed Joe
Hank Williams – Long gone lonesome blues
Slim Whitman – Indian love call
Kane Hawaiians – Mokihana
Dorothy Lamaur – Lovely Hula hands
Rice Brothers Gang – You are my sunshine
Woody Guthrie – House of the rising sun
Leadbelly – Where did you sleep last night
Uncle Dave Macon – Uncle Dave's beloved solo

Start takin' 'er easy right HERE

Oldtime songs'll make you smile

A selection of snappy happy tunes that do just what it says on the tin: put a smile on your face and a tap in your feet. And that's a promise!

Grandpa Jones – Turn your radio on
Burl Ives – Mama don't want no peas no rice
Ethel Smith – Diga diga doo
Helen Grayco with her Orchestra – Oop shoop
Al Casey – Easy Pickin'
George Zimmerman & The Thrills – Ain't got no money to pay for this drink
Moondog – Paris
Burl Ives – Fooba wooba John
Carmen Miranda & the Bando de Lua – Chica-chica-boom-chick
Jackie Davis – Maňana (Is soon enough for me)
Yma Sumac – Bo Mambo
Louis Prima – Beep Beep
Perry-Kingsley – Swan's splashdown
Mulatu Astatké – I faran gami i faram
Carmen Miranda & the Bando de Lua – Tico tico nu fuba
Shankar Jaikishan – Typewriter tip tip tip
The Champs – Limbo rock
The Muppets – Man nah man nah
Bruce Reitherman – Bear necessities
Charles Trenet – Boum!
The Wellingtons – The ballad of Davy Crocket
Burl Ives – Grey goose

Listen or download and start smiling HERE

Space Age Stereophonic Pop Bonanza (BBQ edit)

Some summery and highly stereophonic tunes to light your BBQs with, a best of selection from the Space Age Pop compilations, celebrating the strange and funny tunes that kept the cocktailparties in the 50s and early 60s swinging till the early hours.

Esquivel – Jungle Drum
Sir Julian – Caravan
The 3 Suns – Fever
John Klein & Sid Ramin – The Third Man Theme
Bernie Green & his Orchestra – Under Paris Skies
Bob Thompson, his Choir & Orchestra – Diga Diga Doo
Leo Addeo & his Orchestra – Stumbling
The 3 Suns – Delicado
Esquivel – Foolin' around
Perez Prado – Why wait
The 3 Suns – Danny's inferno
Henry Mancini – Springtime for Hitler
Perez Prado – Monitor Mambo
Russ Case & his Orchestra – Wardance of the wooden indians
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra – Swingcussion
The Guitars Unlimited plus 7 – Crazy Rhythm
Bernie Green & his Orchestra – Ping Pong
Esquivel – Carioca
The 3 Suns – Caravan

Light up that BBQ HERE

In the Swing of Things

A shamelessly swinging selection from the dusty vaults and a combination of obscure funny little ditties and well known dancefloor fillers. Or as we say “'T ain't what you do (it's the way that cha do it)”

Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra – A night at the Cotton Club
Ella Fitzgerald feat. The Chick Webb Orchestra – 'T ain't what you do (it's the way that cha do it)
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra – Ain't misbehavin'
Cole Porter – Anything goes
Arthur Fields – Ja-Da (Ja Da, Ja Da, Jing Jing Jing)
Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra – Nice work if you can get it
Freddie Fisher & his Orchestra – The wild, wild, wild women (are making a wild man of me)
Red Foley – Cincinatti dancing pig
Louis Jordan – Stone cold dead in the market
Betty Hall Jones – Buddy, stay of the wine
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra – Diga diga doo
Louis Prima – I wanne be like you
Louis Armstrong – When the saints go marching in
Marilyn Monroe – I wanne be loved by you
Jan Garber & his Orchestra – Boulevard of broken dreams
Ruth Etting – Glad rag doll
Four Aces feat. Jack Pleis & his Orchestra – Mister Sandman

Start a-listenin' HERE, folks!

Oldtime songs'll keep you warm

Don't mind the cold, turn up the heath, put on a straw hat and get fingersnappin' and foottappin' with this extra swingable selection of oldtime tunes.

Billy Eckstine and Hugo Winterhalster's Orchestra – Caravan
Cliff Edwards – Singin' in the rain
Ted Heath & his Music – Saxophone mambo
Sonny Thompson – Blues mambo
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra – It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing
Rose Murphy (The Chee-Chee Girl) – Is I in love? I is
Henry King & his Orchestra – Jungle drum
Orchestre Créole Delvi – Belle belle
Henry Kings & his Orchestra – The peanut vendor
Don Baretto et son Orchestre Cubain – A si paré
Tito Puente – Mambo con Puente
Carmen Cavallaro & his Orchestra – Enlloro (Voodoo moon)
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra – Limehouse blues
Jerry Murad and his Harmonicats – Dance of the comedians
Les Brown and his Band of Renown – In the mood
Lowell Fulson – Check yourself
The Champs – Tequila
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra – The Mooche
Trio Matamoros – Cuidadito compay gallo

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Oldtime songs go classic

Time to dust of that tuxedo and your tophat, adjust your monocle and get semi-sophisticated with this selection of wellknown classical tunes in either swinging or somewhat oddly performed versions.



This program includes the following compositions:

Alec Templeton – A trip through a music conservatory
Ted Heath and his Music – Claire de lune
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra – Rhapsody in Blue (parts 1 & 2)
Noubar Bey – Fantaisie maggiar
Ted Heath and his Music – Alouette
Jack Kaufman – I'll see you in C-U-B-A
Russ Case and his Orchestra - Stompe a la turca (Rondo from Sonata #9)
Alec Templeton – The shortest Wagner opera ever written
Jan August with Jerry Murad and his Harmonicats – March of the Sardar
Ted Heath and his Music – Sabre dance boogie
Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra – Enlloro (voodoo moon)
Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra – In a sentimental mood 2
Victor Borge – A lesson in composition (to be followed by “The Blue Serenade”)

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The Devil's Night Out

A selection of swinging tunes that will attack your hips and will drive you into the arms of the devil, as any oldtime preacher will tell you. But hey, why not? Party hardy!

Reverend T.E. Weems – God is mad with man
Jonuzi Mu Shöket – Vomé kaba
Al Dexter and his Troopers – Pistol packin' mama
Will Ferdy – Ziede gij mij geire
Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra – Who threw the whiskey in the well?
Tampa Red – Let me play with your poodle
Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra – Big fat mama
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra – Minnie the Moocher
Louis Armstrong – Peanut vendor
Blue Ribbon Boys – Futuristic jungle
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – Rockin' in rhythm
Fred Waring and his Pensylvanians – Dry bones
Harold Boyce and the Harlem Indians – Wille Willie don't go from me
Tito Puente – Vibe Mambo
Howard Shore – Kuba Mambo
Esquivel – Mucha Muchachas
Enselmo Sacases – Rumba negra
Yma Sumac – Taki rari
Button-Down Brass – Tequila
Howard Shore – Nautch dance
Semi Sheheen – Dabka dance
Ed Young, Lonnie Young and Ed Young Jr. - Jim and John

Get up on your feet HERE

Moondog's Lament (An Introduction)

Moondog (1916-1999) was a poet, a Viking, an inventor of instruments (like the ‘Oo’), a master percussionist and composer, a weird jazzman, a blind man, a hobo. He doesn’t fit in any category really, because his music is just too far out there in his own world. Step into it, have a taste, get hooked if you want to, or just try it.



Moondog Tunes:

Bird’s Lament (slow)
Fog on the Hudson
Stamping ground
Single foot
Viking 1
All is loneliness
Symphonique 6 (Good for Goodie)
Lament 1 (Bird’s Lament)
Dog Trot
Coffee Beans
Moondog’s Symphony 1 (Timberwolf)
Paris
Oboe round
Dark Eyes
Instrumental round
Symphonique 3 (Ode to Venus)
Invocation

Moondog Tunes:Step into Moondog's World HERE

Old Songs of Love

From beaten down blues to fingersnapping happy-go-lucky swingtunes, the old songs were all brutally and sometimes also funnily honest when it came to love, or the loss of it, as this small selection hopefully shows.



Al Jolson & Matty Malneck's Orchestra - After you've gone
Benny Carter & his Swing Quartet - Waltzing the blues
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra with Bing Crosby - In a little hula heaven
Count Basie & his Orchestra - Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Billie Holiday - What a little moonlight can't do
Don Redman & his Orchestra - Watching the knife and fork spoon
Louisiana Rhythym Kings - Pretty baby
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra - Big fat mama
Wilton Crawley & his Orchestra - You oughta see my gal
Harold Boyce & the Harlem Indians - Wille Willie don't go from me
The Dixie Stompers - Hard-to-get Gertie
Goebble Reeves the Texas Drifter - The cowboy's dizzy sweetheart
Earl Hines Trio - Squeeze me
The Mills Brothers - You always hurt the one you love
Henry 'Red' Allen & his New York Orchestra - Feeling drowzy
Benny Carter & his Orchestra - If I could only read your mind
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra - The meanest kind of blues
Jed Tompkins - Yield not to temptation

Get that feeling started right HERE