Sunrise Serenade: Henderson Stomp

Today's Sunrise Serenade was "Henderson Stomp" by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line.

Playlist For November 9, 2011

The playlist for the November 9, 2011 broadcast of the Swing Shift Shuffle has just been added to the playlist filing cabinet.

Wall Street Meets Hollywood

With all this talk about bankers and finance in the news of late, Matinee at the Bijou posted a relevant double feature.  Money Madness discusses Hollywood's portrayals of bankers and other men of means in film (think Mr. Potter in It's A Wonderful Life).  In Hollywood Babylon to Wall Street Jungle, MATB reveals the second career of actor Richard Ney.  He played Greer Garson's son in Mrs. Miniver, and her husband in real life, at least for a time.  His second career was that of a successful author on the financial world.

In the early 1960s, Ney began transitioning out of the film and TV entertainment business and into something else altogether. With an economics and public finance degree from Columbia University in New York, he opted to move into the financial world. But instead of just being a financial consultant or market advisor, Ney started writing about Wall Street, achieving national notoriety for accurately predicting the 1962 stock market crash.

Sunrise Serenade: The Man I Love

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "The Man I Love" by Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra.  Click on the song title to listen courtesy of Jazz On Line.

Hop Down To The Lindy Hop

The weekly Red Hot Lindy Hop lesson and session continues this Friday night at the Rumba Room with a lesson by Becky & Michael Q and music by Michael Q.  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

Sunrise Serenade: How Come

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "How Come" by Anita O'Day.  Enjoy the video below from YouTube.

Swing Street 1948

This post on the Hemmings blog represents a confluence of interests for me.  In its continuing series of street scene photographs featuring now antique autos, Hemmings selected a these shots from the Library of Congress Gottlieb collection, merging classic cars and swing history.

Jazz writer and photographer William P. Gottlieb spent plenty of time on “Swing Street,” that section of West Fifty-Second Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Manhattan where many jazz clubs were located in the ground floors of brownstones, so it was only natural that he go outside and shoot the street in its entirety.  

Sunrise Serenade: I'll Always Be In Love With You

This morning's Sunrise Serenade was "I'll Always Be In Love With You" by Ella Fitzgerald.  Click on the song title for a sample from emusic, or click here for the album page.

Jack Frost

This cartoon seemed appropriate for the changing leaves and cool weather.  In this 1934 animated short from Ub Iwerks, a young grizzly bear ignores the warnings of Jack Frost, and underestimates the chilling power of Old Man Winter.  Carl Stalling, of future Warner Bros. fame, provided the musical score.  From the Internet Archive, here is Jack Frost.

Camera Comics

As noted by Peta Pixel, and posted on How To Be A Retronaut, from 1944 to 1946, the U.S. Camera Publishing Company issued a series of comic books to get kids interested in photography.  These Camera Comics books featured stories of photographers in wartime, crime fighting and other adventures; as well as stories about pioneering figures in the history of photography.  The fictional characters included Linda Lens, Kid Click, and my favorite, "Jim Lane, Insurance Investigator."  I wonder if he was Lois Lane's brother.  There were also some neat ads for Kodak and Graflex showing the role their products were playing in the war effort.