[Spang]

<a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXwkWVEIIw</a>

 

[Spang]

Is this the only "favorite" song from the 30s?

 

[Beancounter]

1930's is stretching the demographics of VB just a bit...<br><br>
I don't know about music, but my dad used to talk a lot about the "shadow" ..a radio program from the 1930's.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow</a>

 

[Spang]

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<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Beancounter</strong> <a href="/forum/post/2986071"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a><br><br>
1930's is stretching the demographics of VB just a bit...</div>
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A lot of the music I listen to is older than I am (32).

 

[Beancounter]

You were just born 60-70 years too late. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/smiley.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="">

 

[Capstan]

Well, I thought of Over The Rainbow from The Wizard Of Oz and Cab Calloway's Minnie The Moocher of Betty Boop fame, but I haven't had time to access the videos yet. Don't touch that dial!<br><br>
There's also a beautiful love song called "I'll Be Seeing You" that's been recorded many times over the decades, but was written in 1938.

 

[Nishani]

<a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Beancounter</strong> <a href="/forum/post/2986071"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a><br><br>
1930's is stretching the demographics of VB just a bit...<br></div>
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<br><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/dizzy2.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=":dizzy:">

 

[Beancounter]

<div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">Originally Posted by <strong>Nishani</strong> <a href="/forum/post/2986112"><img alt="View Post" class="inlineimg" src="/img/forum/go_quote.gif" style=""></a><br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs</a><img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/dizzy2.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=":dizzy:"></div>
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Oh come on...<br><br>
Most people on VB barley remember the 90's (thus the lack of response to this thread) <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/smiley.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="">

 

[Amy SF]

Good music is good music, regardless of when it was written and first performed.<br><br><div class="quote-container"><span>Quote:</span>
<div class="quote-block">BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME ?<br>
(Jay Gorney / E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)<br><br>
Recorded by:<br><br>
Dave Brubeck, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Steve Conway,<br>
Connie Francis, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, Phil Harris,<br>
Tom Jones, Eartha Kitt, Peter, Paul & Mary, Mel Tormé,<br>
Rudy Valleeand others.<br><br><br>
Once I built a railroad,<br>
I made it run<br>
I made it run against time<br>
Once I built a railroad, and<br>
now it's done<br>
Buddy, can you spare a dime?<br><br>
Once I built a tower way up to<br>
the sun<br>
Of bricks and morter and lime<br>
Once I built a tower, and now<br>
it's done<br>
Buddy can you spare a dime?<br><br>
Once in khaki suits, gee we<br>
looked swell<br>
Full of that Yankee-Doodlee-Dum<br><br>
A half-a-million boots went<br>
slogging through hell<br>
And I was the kid with the drum<br><br>
Say don't you remember, you<br>
called me Al<br>
It was Al all the time<br>
Say don't you remember, I was<br>
your pal<br>
Buddy, can you spare a dime?<br><br>
Once I built a railroad, I made<br>
it run<br>
I made it run against time<br>
Once I built a railroad, and<br>
now it's done<br>
Buddy, can you spare a dime?</div>
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I first heard this sung by Judy Collins on her "Judith" album. It's so sad...because it's still timely.

 

[Capstan]

<a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P69VtAyn_pU&feature=player_detailpage</a><br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRa4X07jdE&feature=player_detailpage</a><br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixiwfmQdqg&feature=player_detailpage</a>

 

[Capstan]

Technical note: the film, Casablanca, was released in 1942, making As Time Goes By a worldwide hit, but the song was composed in 1931.<br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWa6-x0iWRw&feature=player_detailpage</a>

 

[Capstan]

3 songs here. Perfidia and Frenesi are from '39. La Ultima Noche- I'm not sure- maybe from about 1948.<br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro74JUoI1mk&feature=player_detailpage</a>

 

[Ira]

I didn't even know there was music in the 30's!<br><br>
j/k <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/wink3.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title="">

 

[Capstan]

Arguably the most listened-to piece of music of all time.<br><br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlseQ1so68k&feature=player_detailpage</a>

 

[IamJen]

Capstan, this was my intro music at our wedding (well, the 50's Cinemascope version). I can still recall the excitement of hearing the fanfare at the beginning of movies when I was a kid. I love when they use it now...it seems a bit hit and miss.<br><br>
Despite our collective relatively young age, I'm sure VBers can appreciate 30s music. <img alt="" class="inlineimg" src="/images/smilies/tongue3.gif" style="border:0px solid;" title=""><br><br>
One of my favorites (though a modern version):<br><a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih425d5EoWQ&feature=results_video&playnext =1&list=PLDF457C7554C627F1</a><br>
(ignore the video...just close your eyes)

 

[healthier]

<a href="http:" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRa4X07jdE&feature=player_detailpage</a><br><br>
kinda heard this from my mother's collection..kinda relate to this as well