Some happy, energetic, and even silly sounds for your Sunday. We begin with Sid Bass' The Giggling Girls of Greece, a Carlton label classic I found at a Pensacola, Florida flea market about (oh, my God) 25 years ago. The music, I'm happy to say, is as campy as the title:
The Giggling Girls of Greece (Shuman-Garson), Sid Bass and His Orchestra, 1960. From Carlton 45. (Rescued from cassette tape.)
I wonder if that's an Odioline we're hearing in that one? Cool instrument, whatever it is. And the Giggling Girl flip is just as nuts. Funny Bone, this one is called:
Funny Bone, Sid Bass and His Orchestra, 1960. (Rescued from cassette tape.)
And, from 1947, here are The Shelton Brothers, wondering how they're going to fit their clothes into a matchbox:
Matchbox Blues--The Shelton Brothers, 1947. From King label 78. (And rescued from cassette tape.)
Once upon a time, I had an interesting Billy Murray 78 from the 1920s with Sunday Driving (or Drivers?) in the title. It was very similar to this 1951 record by Jerry Lewis, which was probably funnier in the days before such road behavior became the norm!
Sunday Driving, Jerry Lewis with Billy May and His Orchestra, 1951. From Capitol label 78. (Record not on hand to copy composer info from.)
We close our Sunday morning wake-up fest with Florian Zabach's Golden Strings, one of the best Holiday for Strings clones to ever grace a slab o' thrift-store vinyl:
Golden Strings, Florian Zabach, 1956. From Mercury LP of the same name.
Music--better than coffee, as the old saying goes. Actually, I just made that up. I think. Maybe not.
I'll Google that phrase and see if it matches anything. After I've had my coffee....
Lee
2 comments:
oh boy....that giggling girls of greece just screams to be played on our show (and my co-host can actually giggle along with it!) and your own stuff lee, especially the belly dancer rag will like get played, if thta's cool with you. we have a few LPFM's and internet stations running us weekly. Like them, they do it for free, and it's a hobby for us too. I wish I could make some cash, but I'm too much of an artist, as opposed to enterpreneur. I'll have to link you on our site.....
Snarfdude
Co host/producer
cheezepleeze.com
Snarfdude,
Be my guest, and thanks for asking! Yeah, no dough in this biz, that's for sure. Or maybe it's just that, as you suggest, most of us artists aren't $$-savvy. That's probably it. It's our destiny to starve!
"Fat and happy artists" doesn't have the ring of "starving artists," I guess.
Lee
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