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