Big Broadcast: Jazz & Popular Music 1920’s 2 / Various

Description

The second in Rivermont’s popular Big Broadcast series, this CD features a variety of excellent jazz, dance band, and vocal recordings of the 1920s and 1930s selected by Rich Conaty, who — for more than forty years — was host of the vintage music radio program The Big Broadcast over WFUV-FM in New York City. Many of these rare selections are making their first appearance on compact disc, and several are previously unreleased in any format. Conaty provides insightful introductions to each recording in the enclosed 16-page full-color illustrated booklet. Tracks: 1. Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? (Eva Taylor) 2. Mamma Goes Where Papa Goes (Broadway Music Masters) 3. Let’s Talk About My Sweetie (Abe Lyman’s California Orchestra) 4. Spring Fever (Rube Bloom) 5. South Wind (Walter Davison’s Louisville Loons) 6. Love and Kisses (From Baby to You)(Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra) 7. Blue Baby (Kenneth Casey and His Orchestra) 8. Because You Are My Dream Girl (Blue Steele and His Orchestra) 9. I Get the Blues When It Rains (Fred Rich and His Orchestra) 10. Wasting My Love on You (Annette Hanshaw) 11. Reaching for the Moon (Roy Fox and His Band) 12. Dream a Little Dream of Me (Teddy Raph and His Orchestra) 13. Was That the Human Thing to Do? (Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees) 14. Play Me a Frigid Air (Sid Peltyn and His Orchestra) 15. Rise ‘n’ Shine (Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra) 16. Oh! By Jingo (The Three Keys) 17. Washington Squabble (Claude Hopkins Orchestra) 18. With Every Breath I Take (Connie Boswell with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra) 19. Believe It Beloved (Isham Jones and His Orchestra) 20. I Got Shoes – You Got Shoesies (Cliff Edwards) 21. Tap Room Blues (Joe Venuti and His Blue Four) 22. Alone (Eddie Paul and The Paramount Orchestra) 23. The Panic Is On (Mezz Mezzrow and His Swing Band) 24. Bugle Call Rag (Don Redman and His Orchestra) 25. Everybody Loves My Baby (Red Nichols and His Pennies)