HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Lee

Halloween 2016 is back!!!

Greetings!  It's almost Halloween, and I've been too ill to post any scary stuff for the holiday (unless you find barbershop frightening), but... looks like my 2016 posts are still up and running!  I really went to town last year--I'd forgotten how much.  I must have felt a heck of a lot better than I have this year.

So, here are the 2016 post links.  Ignore the Box.com message about the preview not loading--just hit the download button.  All is fine--I've test-downloaded all of these successfully.

And there's the fact I have very few "new" Halloween tracks on hand, so I'd just be recycling this year, anyway.  Halloween isn't like Christmas.  If it were, there'd be thousands more Halloween records!  Even as liberal as I am with my definition of a "Halloween track" (I've tossed in flying saucers, Little Nell, and even dinosaurs one year), the things just get harder to unearth.

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2016/10/happy-halloween.html

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2016/10/males-from-crypt-present-halloween.html

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2014/09/halloween-in-space-suite-lee-hartsfeld.html

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-frankenstein-brothers-present.html

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2016/10/voo-doo-magic-1952-jimmy-cook-and-orch.html

http://musicyouwont.blogspot.com/2016/10/halloween-part-3-buwa-ha-haaaaa.html

And... a fun post from 2014 featuring 1964 Sunset House catalog ads.  I wonder if anyone is still selling the "Spook Hand" that sticks out of the toilet seat?  (Not making this up....)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!



Lee

A Little Close Harmony--Vintage Barbershop (1906-1926)

Wow--I didn't realize I'd been absent from this blog for two months.  I'd have guessed one, not two.  Time flies when you're ill, I guess.  My apologies.

Today, 17 vintage barbershop recordings, all (as far as I know) by white quartets.  More on that later.  Some fabulous singing is coming your way.

In a follow-up post, I'll talk about my absence (ah, the joys of Prednisone!), and I'll give background on these (mostly) barbershop gems contained in today's playlist, all ripped by me from my shellac collection with Vinyl Studio and MAGIX software.  For now, here's the wonderful music:

Click here to hear: A Little Close Harmony

A Little Close Harmony (a.k.a., The Old Songs)--Criterion Quartet (1921)
Down at the Huskin' Bee (Same)
Sweet Adeline--Peerless Quartet, 1926
In the Evening By the Moonlight--Same
The Owl and the Pussycat (melody: De Koven)--Haydn Quartet, 1908
Bring Back My Bonnie to Me--Haydn Quartet w. Orch., 1906
Darling Nellie Gray--Peerless Quartet, 1925
Down By the Old Mill Stream--Brunswick Quartet, 1911
Sally--Same
Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield--Imperial Quartet, 1915
Honey That I Love So Well--Chicago Glee Club (Male Quartet), 1911
You're a Great Big Blue-Eyed Baby--Heidelberg Quartet, 1913
And the Green Grass Grew All Around--American Quartet, 1913
Kentucky Days--Peerless Quartet, 1912
Rainbow (Wenrich)--Shannon Quartet, 1926
Red Wing (Mills)--Same
The Cross Bow (De Koven, from "Robin Hood")--Imperial Quartet, 1915


Lee