Any Big Band Lovers Out There?

Started by Solar, April 12, 2014, 11:13:37 AM

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TboneAgain

Quote from: SVPete on May 26, 2014, 06:59:35 AM
The Mancini "station" is mostly instrumental. If you like older vocal music, the Mills Brothers "station" (to which I'm currently listening, BTW) is worth a try, also. It has artists such as the Mills Brothers, the Ink Spots ("If I Didn't Care", "Java Jive"), Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra ...

Another one to try in the same vein -- the Doris Day channel. It'll put you onto Sinatra and Dino, along with Cole and Ella Fitzgerald and a host of others with connections to swing/big band music. Many think of Doris Day as that cute blond who did the Rock Hudson movies, but she actually started out to be a dancer. A car accident stopped that ambition, so she turned to singing. (If she considered her voice a 'secondary' talent, she must have been one hell of a dancer before the wreck!) Early in her career (starting around 1940), Day worked with bandleaders Jimmy James, Bob Crosby, and Les Brown. By the time she left Brown in 1946, Doris Day was the highest-paid female band singer on the planet! I think she sounds better just talking than most singers sound when they sing. Ear candy!
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Solar

Quote from: kit saginaw on February 08, 2015, 12:49:37 AM
Elmer Bernstein...

Vikki Carr - The Silencers
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I was so taken by her beauty, that I was blinded  to her games. Of course this was a pattern for the decade to follow, and lessons learned. :biggrin:

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kit saginaw

Quote from: Solar on February 08, 2015, 04:33:42 AM
Awestruck by her beauty back in the day, I dated a girl that looked just like her (first true love), which was a mistake.
I was so taken by her beauty, that I was blinded  to her games. Of course this was a pattern for the decade to follow, and lessons learned. :biggrin:



Yeah, there's a zillion ways to play it. 

TboneAgain

Quote from: Solar on February 08, 2015, 04:33:42 AM
Awestruck by her beauty back in the day, I dated a girl that looked just like her (first true love), which was a mistake.
I was so taken by her beauty, that I was blinded  to her games. Of course this was a pattern for the decade to follow, and lessons learned. :biggrin:



I was surprised to learn that she's Hispanic, with specifically Mexican roots, with the birth name Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona.

She's still kickin' too! Hey, 73 is the new 50, right?  :tounge:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on February 08, 2015, 05:40:23 PM
I was surprised to learn that she's Hispanic, with specifically Mexican roots, with the birth name Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona.

She's still kickin' too! Hey, 73 is the new 50, right?  :tounge:

I remember that young lady in Mod Squad.  :lol:
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kit saginaw

Quote from: walkstall on February 08, 2015, 06:50:57 PM
I remember that young lady in Mod Squad.  :lol:

She was supposed to be America's hippie-girl.. or something.