Sunrise Serenade: I Want A Roof Over My Head

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "I Want A Roof Over My Head" by Louis Jordan.  Click on the song title for a sample from emusic, or click here for the album page.

Playlist For May 11, 2011

The playlist for the May 11, 2011 broadcast of the Swing Shift Shuffle has just been added to the playlist filing cabinet.

Art School Advertisement

I remember seeing ads for art schools in comic books and other magazines when I was a kid, but I do not remember them using a Petty- or Vargas-style pin up girl as the admission test.  All I remember were turtles.  As demonstrated by this post on Modern Mechanix, art schools were apparently more sophisticated in June 1941, when this ad appeared in Mechanix Illustrated.

Sunrise Serenade: Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" by the Mills Brothers.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line.

Dry Out With The Lindy Hop

As the floodwaters recede, dry out at the Red Hot Lindy Hop weekly lesson and session this Friday with a lesson by Jaredan and Amanda and  music by Amanda.  Free admission before 7:00 p.m., and $5 at the door afterwards. 

Dress like you are going out!

Rumba Room

303 South Main

Memphis, TN 38103

U of M Swing every Tuesday, Fieldhouse Room 118 from 7:00 to 9:45 p.m.  Free taster lesson from 7:00-8:00 p.m. Topics vary from week to week and include East Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, Charleston, Blues and Balboa. All are welcome and no partner is required. Open practice from 8-9:30 pm. Improve your moves during this dance time. Ask questions, come practice your swing dancing and have fun with other Memphis swing dancers!

Sunrise Serenade: I Want The Waiter With The Water

Today's Sunrise Serenade was "I Want The Waiter (With The Water)" by Ella Fitzgerald.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line.

Link Thorne: The Flying Fool

In this item, Golden Age Comic Book Stories goes back to the roots of its name, posting seven Link Thorne:  The Flying Fool stories from May to December 1947.  I had never heard of this character, but the stories appear to be everything you would expect from a Golden Age comic book story:  tough, handsome hero; loyal girl; action-packed story; etc.

Sunrise Serenade: Doin' The New Low Down

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "Doin' The New Low Down" by the Mills Brothers with Cab Calloway.  Click on the song title for a sample from emusic, or click here for the album page.

I Love To Singa

Sorry, folks.  I must have been asleep at the controls.  Apparently my cartoon did not post Saturday morning when I clicked "publish," and I did not notice until now.  Better late than never.  Here is a classic cartoon I have not seen in some time.  Directed by Tex Avery when he was still at Warner Bros., it features "Owl Jolson."  From the Internet Archive, here is the 1936 animated short, I Love To Singa. 

Marriage In 2003 As Viewed From 1933

Take a little of George Orwell's 1984, mix it with an (un)healthy dose of Nazi eugenics, throw in modern technology and its accompanying privacy concerns, and you have the subject of this 1933 article by a psychiatrist about the future of marriage.  Posted on Paleofuture, the article looked ahead to the marital rituals of 2033.

Dr. Wile imagined a bureau of records under government control that would begin monitoring people the day they were born. He predicted that everything about a person would be recorded; from someone's physical and mental defects at birth to the subjective progress and imperfections of that person throughout their life. Then, when someone wished to be married, they would be assessed by bureaucrats and found a suitable mate based upon case cards that have been cross-indexed against members of the opposite sex. These assessments would be made based on class and desirable physical and mental traits.