What 🎶music are you listening to at this moment?

[Olorgando]

Well, since we're in a nostalgia fest:
And that reminds me -- that came out shortly after I first read TH and LOTR. A seeming coincidence, but I think not. Surely Tolkien influenced Side 2?

Dude, that ain't nostalgia.
THIS is (I have the entire Carnegie Hall concert in LP and CD versions).

Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James and quite a few others just going nuts, and the audience with them (just short of what later became known as Beatlemania?)
This title and this version defines Swing for me …

Edit: listened to it a second time … 🥴🥴🥴 … and a third time … 🤪🤪🤪 … taking an exhaustion time-out ...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Great stuff indeed!

But the context appeared to be "nostalgia for stuff that happened when we were actually alive".

Now, don't tell me. . .!

 

[Olorgando]

Great stuff indeed!

But the context appeared to be "nostalgia for stuff that happened when we were actually alive".

Now, don't tell me. . .!

Nah! You ought to remember that in one of my earliest posts (in some nosy, privacy-protection ambivalent thread having to do with age) in late August that I noticed after a post of yours and another member's that I was at most a candidate for the bronze medal in the "most ancient" category of TTF.
That said, I certainly heard this stuff blaring around the place my parents and I lived in in the early 1960s in India, when they threw a party for the local expatriate community (mostly but not solely German). Along with some Duke Ellington and Herbie Mann stuff (more recent than the Goodman Carnegie Hall concert), this is the earliest musical memory I have.

Ah, what the heck, found it on YouTube, LP Duke Ellington meets Coleman Hawkins "Limbo Jazz":

Now Herbie Mann "At the Village Gate" - Awks, this one could get tough, selecting a title ...
I think it's "Comin' Home Baby", first title of side 1 of the LP, just over 8.5 minutes. Second title is "Summertime", over 10 minutes. Only title on side 2 of the LP is a nearly 20-minute version of "It Ain't Necessarily So". But I'm now sure the title that stuck was the first one.
WTH, I'll just link the whole album.

I only own 19 LPs by this guy, ending in 1974 ...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

About all I got was Doris Day.

 

[Olorgando]

About all I got was Doris Day.

Well, you seem to have recovered from this early audio mistreatment quite well (or have you? this Mamamoo fixation … )
I'm not saying anything against Doris Day, I have no idea what her private musical tastes were.
I just know just from Germany that lots of artists would have preferred to do other things, but were forced into pathetic cookie cutters by the media industry suits.
Whose existence proves beyond any doubt in my mind that Trolls and Orcs have very definitely survived the Third Age, up to our day … 👿

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Unfortunately, as a kid I was growing up well into the "pap" era of the 50's. "How Much is That Doggie in the Window", etc. By then, Doris, who was a very talented singer -- Beverly Sills' favorite pop singer, in fact -- "Every note is right in the middle of the tone" -- was doing the MOR stuff that got the airplay. Well that, and movies.

She'd started with big band swing, and was well capable of jazz styling:

Had she followed it into the 50's, she could have been another June Christy. But Hollywood called. . .

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

this Mamamoo fixation …

Hey -- those girls can sing! Careful, there -- you know what a soft spot I have for them. Especially Lioness Hwasa! 🥵

 

[Aldarion]

Aldarion, I appreciate you post. I listened to a couple of minutes of the beginning - and the same at the end; But when I noticed that the running time was about that of the first two cinematic LoTR films and basically all of the cinematic TH films ...
😳😲😱

I like to let it play in the background while I work on something.

Now for something slightly different:

 

[Olorgando]

Hey -- those girls can sing! Careful, there -- you know what a soft spot I have for them. Especially Lioness Hwasa! 🥵

Oh, I don't doubt they can sing, you've posted enough of their stuff. (Nor did I doubt it for Doris.)
But then there's the repertoire (including Doris's after she followed Hollywood's call).
The cookie cutter (or sausage-machine) stuff that the suits in media believe has mass-market appeal, so they feed it to the market.

Of course that's only marketing 101.
For the master class, something utterly useless has to be found, be vastly overpriced, and then consumers brainwashed into believing this is a must-have.
There's a brilliant take on this in the French Asterix comic book series volume 23, "Obelix and Co.", originally published in 1976. 🤣

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

You mean this stuff?

Here's some June Christy:

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I saw Elton John on his farewell tour in Pittsburgh last night so have been listening to him today. At 74 he still is amazing, even if he doesn't have the same vocal range that he had previously.

 

[Miguel]

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

CL

 

[Miguel]

 

[Aldarion]

 

[Olorgando]

You mean this stuff?View attachment 6180

Ah yes, the secret (or not-so-secret???) hero of the marketing crowd: the snake-oil salesman!'s "product"! 🤢

 

[Olorgando]

Here's some June Christy:

Clarinet player walking in from the left, certainly not Benny Goodman.
Wild guess: didn’t one of the Dorsey brothers also play clarinet?

The names Nat King Cole and Mel Tormé certainly rang bells (though not necessarily repertoire-wise). I’d have to guess than June Christy did not follow any siren calls to commercially more lucrative if much shallower pastures? But them, in the extended female jazz vocals realm, about the only names that really ring bells with me are Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

 

[Olorgando]

I saw Elton John on his farewell tour in Pittsburgh last night so have been listening to him today. At 74 he still is amazing, even if he doesn't have the same vocal range that he had previously.

19 years ago, Elton's vocal range was still quite impressive. I have a CD of this 2000 Madison Square Garden live concert, "One Night Only" , and you must all know by now that I'm a bit of a Hard Rock nut. Unfortunately for you (all), Squint-eyed Southerner's constant nagging has made me go to YouTube for Mithril. So enjoy (I will, anyway) Elton's ultimate hard rock screamer, from "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", here in a duet with Anastacia from that 2000 live concert! Careful, this song has another one of those intro guitar riffs that has amplifier manufacturers biting their nails!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

didn’t one of the Dorsey brothers also play clarinet?

Yes, but the clarinetist here is Dick Williamson. You can find more info about personnel in the comments section here:

June started singing professionallyat age 13, but became well known while performing with Stan Kenton in the 40's, including on "Tampico", his biggest hit. She began a solo career in the late 40's, playing and recording with Pete Rugolo and a group of LA musicians.

Rugolo was an interesting guy -- he studied under Darius Milhaud, one of "Les Six" (and, completely OT, composer of the first "classical" LP I bought under my own power). He later composed music for a number of TV shows, including "Leave it to Beaver" (!).

June's 10-inch LP, "Something Cool" was recorded with him, in 1953. It's credited with helping to launch the "cool jazz" style of the 50's. I used to have a copy. Here's the title track, probably her best-known recording:

And here she is singing it on TV in 59:

Hef hands her a martini at the end. A bad omen of things to come.

 

[Olorgando]

Bad news for all soft ballads fans. My above post recalled to my memory another male-female duet that really rocked. Some guy named Eric C. and some gal named Tina T.. And it only gets worse: in the background at the 1986 live concert version of the song that I'm going to perpetrate on you (amazing how young they all look back then - pups in their forties!) I believe I've discovered a certain Phil C. (one of two drummers), and beyond a doubt one Mark K., providing some guitar licks. As I've mentioned before, it's all S-e S's fault for getting me hooked on YouTube. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸