It's been awhile since I did a music break, but since I'm so busy, I thought it was time for another one.

For those of you that are new to my blog, I was doing a weekly series on music artists from before 1965 and mostly focusing on the 20s, 30s and 40s.

I think from now on that I'll just keep it to once a month or when I'm too busy to do a regular post.

Anyway...

Martha Tilton.

Have you heard of her?

If you've listened to Benny Goodman, you've probably heard her voice, because she sang with the band from 1937 until the end of 1939.

She also played with a number of other bands and appeared in many films and radio programs.

You can read more about her life 'here'.

Her most famous song is "And the Angels Sing" from 1938 with the Benny Goodman Orchestra.

It was written by Johnny Mercer and Ziggy Elman.

Please look him up, he was a truly wonderful musician and there's so much more to enjoy :)

xo

rue

This is my great grandparent's cedar chest.

First I want to say thank you...

Thank you so much to all of you that left comments on my last post. Whether you left one for the first time, or have once in awhile, or have every time... I so enjoyed reading each and every single one. And I'm still reading them as they come in and will be answering more of them as soon as I can :)

I normally don't answer ALL the comments on my blog, unless they're from readers that don't have one, but I thought that this time I would make the effort to do so, because I asked a favor of all of you and I wanted you to know that I care.

I care that you took the time to introduce yourselves and I loved hearing about your lives and/or why you visit me or even if you just said "Hello".

All of you warmed my heart.

So, thank you.

Sincerely.

Now, let's go back in time to 1938...

I have two songs this time and both were sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.

First is "Thanks for the Memory".

Written by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin for the film "The Big Broadcast of 1938".

It eventually became Mr. Hope's signature song.

Do any of you remember the Bob Hope specials?

I used to love them :)

Next is "Two Sleepy People".

 Written by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics written by Frank Loesser.

A lot of people have recorded this song, but to me this one is the sweetest.

Here they are singing it in the movie "Thanks for the Memory"

Music hasn't escaped my passion for vintage either.

If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I've recently started doing a series called Music break.

You can read those posts 'here', 'here', 'here' and 'here', along with me waxing poetic about music on blogs 'here'

I have no idea where my love of old music initially came from, but I have loved Big Band from the beginning of my life and even during my"rock phase" in the 80s and 90s, I still turned to it. In fact, I was the oddball in my group of friends. The only thing I can think of is that my grandparents listened to it and it must have entered my brain at a young age. 

I can still picture my grandmother, Bonnie, wagging her finger along to music as it played and my grandfather, Ox, singing along to music that didn't have words on some AM station that I can't recall, or on k-earth101, which was an oldies station in L.A., back when they actually played "oldies".

Some of them were:

Tommy Dorsey

Jimmy Dorsey

Artie Shaw

Benny Goodman

Gene Krupa

and my personal favorite, Glenn Miller

Then there was the 50s and 60s that had me listening to...

Buddy Holly

Elvis

Sam Cooke

Frank Sinatra

Much later I discovered music from the 20s and 30s. I'm officially hooked and it's what I'm planning on sharing more of in upcoming posts, because I consider it forgotten music that needs to be brought into the light.

Be careful though, some of that music back then was quite racy and although it doesn't bother me, I know quite a few of you would blush.

'Shave me dry' Lucille Bogan is a good example, but there's much, much worse.

Rap music has nothing on the music from that era, trust me!

Nothing new under the sun, as the saying goes ;)

I seriously could go on and on with this post, but I don't want to bore you, so next I'll be going to another old love of mine.

To be continued...

xo

rue

Part one

Part two

When I came back to Blogland, I noticed quite a few changes, but one of them in particular was music.

Or the lack thereof.

Some of you newbies will probably be shocked by this, but just about everyone had music playing when you opened up their blog. Most of the time, it was pleasant and you got a real feeling of who the person was behind the writing. 

I think the music on my last blog did that. Especially since readers would often tell me that they would click on it just to hear the music play, because it made them happy. It was combination of oldies and country, which worked for that particular blog.

When I left, there was a huge controversy going on about whether or not you should have it on there. People were arguing and telling people to turn it off and others were adamant that it stayed. It was kinda ugly.

Anyway, I guess the non-music people won.

Of course, there's still a few holdouts, some of which happen to be on my list of favorites ;)

But, except for those few, there's just pictures, words and silence now.

One of my dear friends asked if I was going to put music on this blog and I went back and forth on it and pretty much decided that I probably won't or at least not constantly streaming. 

Today though, I thought I'd share some of the music I listen to and that I would have put on here, just in case you're curious :)

I mostly listen to music between 1920 and 1950. Not that I don't ever listen to newer music than that, but it's what I like to listen to most of the time. In fact, I have a station on my Pandora that is called Annette Hanshaw Radio.

Who is that? Well, this lovely lady right here:

She's my favorite female singer from the 20s and early 30s. Unfortunately for us, she retired after only 10 years. You can learn more about her here.

My favorite male singer from the 30s is Mr. Al Bowlly:

Sadly, we lost him to an air-raid bomb, in England during WWII. You can read more about his life here.

Then there's the music of Cole Porter.......

He wrote such lovely songs, didn't he?

Of course, no music list of mine would be complete without Bing.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop with my all-time favorite song and the first one you heard when you opened up my last blog.

Moonlight Serenade by the legendary Glenn Miller:

So, that should give you a good idea of what you would hear if you walked into my house.

Are you shocked? 

You shouldn't be.

After all, it's not like I'd be living in this house and playing something like Metallica ;)

Well, I hope you enjoyed listening to a few of my favorites from the past.

Have a beautiful music filled day!

xo

rue