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Shame - Drunk Tank Pink (2021)
What are you listening to? January 2021
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Plants And Animals - La La Land (2010)
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Plants And Animals - The Jungle (2020)
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Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (1985)
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Helen Forrest - 1944-1945 (Cracked comp. 2020)
After years of success singing in the big bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Harry James, Helen launched her solo career with these sides for Decca. Despite early success with hits like "Long Ago and Far Away" and "Time Waits For No One", Helen never really fulfilled her potential after the war.
Trivia note: Helen replaced none other than Billie Holiday as Shaw's "girl singer". Why did Holiday leave? She told Downbeat a story all too typical of the period:
“Artie Shaw was a lot worse [than Count Basie, whom she also quit]. I had known him a long time, when he was strictly from hunger around New York, long before he got a band. At first, we worked together OK, then his managers started belly-aching. Pretty soon it got so I would sing just two numbers a night. When I wasn’t singing, I had to stay backstage. Artie wouldn’t let me sit out front with the band. Last year, when we were at the Lincoln Hotel, the hotel management told me I had to use the back door. That was all right. But I had to ride up and down in the freight elevators, and every night Artie made me stay upstairs in a little room without a radio or anything all the time.
“Finally it got so I would stay up there, all by myself, reading everything I could get my hands on, from 10 o’clock to nearly 2 in the morning, going downstairs to sing just one or two numbers. Then one night ... Artie said he couldn’t let me sing. I was always given two shots on each program. The real trouble was this: Shaw wanted to sign me to a five-year contract and when I refused, it burned him. He was jealous of the applause I got when I made one of my few appearances with the band each night.”
After years of success singing in the big bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Harry James, Helen launched her solo career with these sides for Decca. Despite early success with hits like "Long Ago and Far Away" and "Time Waits For No One", Helen never really fulfilled her potential after the war.
Trivia note: Helen replaced none other than Billie Holiday as Shaw's "girl singer". Why did Holiday leave? She told Downbeat a story all too typical of the period:
“Artie Shaw was a lot worse [than Count Basie, whom she also quit]. I had known him a long time, when he was strictly from hunger around New York, long before he got a band. At first, we worked together OK, then his managers started belly-aching. Pretty soon it got so I would sing just two numbers a night. When I wasn’t singing, I had to stay backstage. Artie wouldn’t let me sit out front with the band. Last year, when we were at the Lincoln Hotel, the hotel management told me I had to use the back door. That was all right. But I had to ride up and down in the freight elevators, and every night Artie made me stay upstairs in a little room without a radio or anything all the time.
“Finally it got so I would stay up there, all by myself, reading everything I could get my hands on, from 10 o’clock to nearly 2 in the morning, going downstairs to sing just one or two numbers. Then one night ... Artie said he couldn’t let me sing. I was always given two shots on each program. The real trouble was this: Shaw wanted to sign me to a five-year contract and when I refused, it burned him. He was jealous of the applause I got when I made one of my few appearances with the band each night.”
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African Brothers - Want Some Freedom (2001)
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David Bowie - ★ (2016)
He died nearly 5 years ago. WTF.
He died nearly 5 years ago. WTF.
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Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz (2021)
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The Secret French Postcards - Colours (2020)
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Is this Goth Synthpop? Just surmising, of course.The Secret French Postcards - Colours (2020)
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Shoegazey post-punk.
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I found it on Bandcamp.
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Carroll Gibbons - On The Air (rec. 1926-43, ASV Living Era comp. 1994)
This American born pianist studied in England at the Royal Academy of Music between the Wars and wound up living there. This disc features a selection of his recordings with the Savoy Hotel orchestra as well as a smaller group known as "Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends".
This American born pianist studied in England at the Royal Academy of Music between the Wars and wound up living there. This disc features a selection of his recordings with the Savoy Hotel orchestra as well as a smaller group known as "Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends".
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