The sixth 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, host of the long-running vintage music radio program The Big Broadcast heard Sunday evenings on WFUV-FM in New York City. Many of these selections are making their first appearance on compact disc, expertly remastered from the best available sources. Conaty provides insightful introductions to each recording in the enclosed 16-page illustrated booklet. Every selection is a stand-out, but highlights in Volume 6 include the very first recording by Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey (with the Scranton Sirens in 1923), a rare vocal by a young Jimmy Stewart from 1931, a brilliant hi-fi recording of Paul Whiteman's Orchestra from 1932, and a live 1932 broadcast by Cab Calloway from New York City. 78 minutes.
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RICH REWARDS
1. Fate - Scranton Sirens2. Lovey Came Back - Cliff Edwards3. Looking at the World Thru Rose Colored Glasses - Golden Gate Orchestra4. Where the Cot-Cot-Cotton Grows - Cook Sisters5. Sorry - Fletcher Henderson's Collegians6. It's a Precious Little Thing Called Love - Jimmy Sauter's Night Owls7. They All Fall In Love - Will Osborne and His Orchestra8. Tiger Rag - Hotel Pennsylvania Music9. A Bee In Your Boudoir - Charles (Buddy) Rogers10. Wabash Blues - Taylor's Dixie Serenaders11. All of Me - Tom Gerun and His Orchestra12. Day After Day - Princeton Triangle Club Dance Orchestra13. Got the South in My Soul - Singin' Sam14. Spring is Here Again - Marion Harris15. Banking on the Weather/A Great Big Bunch of You - Joe Moss and His Orchestra 16. In the Dim Dim Dawning - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra17. Midnight, the Stars and You - Roy Fox and His Band18. Lost in a Fog - Gloria Grafton19. Blue Moon - Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra20. On the Green - Rube Bloom21. Accent on Youth - George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra22. A Beautiful Lady in Blue - Ray Noble and His Orchestra23. Trouble in Mind - The Four Southerners24. Junk-Man's Serenade - Ovie Alston and His Orchestra25. King Porter Stomp - Cab Calloway and His OrchestraAnother triumph from Rich Conaty, host of the weekly radio programme "The Big Broadcast" from WFUV-FM in New York City. As with previous volumes, his approach is to pursue rare and/or hitherto unreissued recordings with the single-mindedness of a Victoroan lepidopterist, and boy,he certainly nets some goodies! For example, the opener is a rare private recording by a band that would be unknown today but for the presence in its 1923 ranks of the Dorsey brothers. The closer is another extreme rarity, a number never released commercially by Cab Calloway.In between is as varied a mix of treasures from the twenties and thirties as you could wish for, the added attraction being that whilst most numbers are well- known to devotees of the period, they appear here in unfamiliar versions. As a result we can enjoy the glorious voice of Singin' Sam, Denny Dennis with Roy Fox, and James Stewart singing "Day After Day", to name but a few. The 16-page glossy illustrated booklet sets out background information on each track, and if you already own earlier volumes you'll need no urging to add this to your collection. If not, now's the chance to find out what you've been missing"
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