For those who have not been keeping up with the Interludes that have been put up, sometimes steadily and sometimes in fits and starts (all are are available for retrieval by clicking on the link under the photograph of Oriana Fallaci at left), here, by way of inveiglement, are #65-#135, a little more than half of those put up between Thanksgiving and Hogmanay, 2007. And here is an explanation of why they're here at all.
Musical Interlude #65:
If I Could Be With You (Hal Swain Orch.)
Musical Interlude #66:
You're The Cream In My Coffee (King Solomon and His Miners, voc. Scrappy Lambert)
Musical Interlude #67:
Girl of My Dreams (Blue Steele Orch.)
Musical Interlude #68:
Say A Little Prayer For Me (Jack Payne Orch. & voc.)
Musical Interlude #69:
You Made Me Love You (Artie Shaw Orch., voc. Helen Forrest)
Cinematic Interlude #70:
Musical Interlude #71:
Cinematic Musical Interlude #72:
The Jitterbugs (Gracie Fields)
Musical Interlude #73:
Lover Come Back To Me (Lawrence Tibbett, Grace Moore)
Musical Interlude #74:
You Ought To See Sally On Sunday (Bertini and His Tower Blackpool Band)
Musical Interlude #75:
I'm Doin' What I'm Doin' For Love (Libby Holman)
Musical Interlude #76:
The Missed Rendezvous (Aleksandr Tsfasman)
Musical Interludes #77-79: Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields (Vaudeville Songs)
77.
79.
Why Don't You Practice What You Preach?
Musical Interlude #80:
Musical Interlude #81:
He's Only A Working Man (Lily Morris)
Musical Interlude #82:
Every Now And Then (Helen Kane, Donald Douglas)
Musical Interlude #83:
Lonely Melody (Bix Beiderbecke)
Musical Interlude #84:
Positively Absolutely (Jan Garber Orch.)
Musical Interlude #85:
Blue Moon (Aleksandr Varlamov Orch. & voc.)
Musical Interlude #86:
Ain't You, Baby (Ray Miller Orch., voc. Dusty Rhoads)
Musical Interlude #87:
She Didn't Say Yes(Ray Noble Orch.)
Musical Interlude #88:
Love Will Forgive You Everything (Hanka Ordonowna)
Musical Interlude #89:
Musical Interlude #90:
Body and Soul (Annette Hanshaw)
Musical Interlude #91:
I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now (Jane Green)
Musical Interlude #92:
Musical Interlude #93:
Musical Interlude #94:
Musical Interlude #95:
Dark Eyes & St. Louis Blues (Washboard Serenaders)
Musical Interlude #96:
Musical Interlude #97:
What Wouldn't I Do For That Man? (Helen Morgan)
Cinematic Interlude #98:
Devchata (scene of First Love)
Musical Interlude #99:
Got A Date With An Angel (Debroy Somers Band)
Cinematic Dancing Interlude #100:
Ooh! That Mitzi Mayfair!
Musical Interlude #101:
Walkin' My Baby Back Home (Lee Morse)
Musical Interlude #102:
Comical Interlude #103:
Egyptian Sand Dance (Wilson and Keppel)
Musical Interlude #104:
I'm Sure Of Everything But You (Henry Hall Orchestra)
Musical Interlude #105:
My Baby Just Cares For Me (Jack Payne Orchestra)
Musical Interlude #106:
Got A Date With An Angel (Al Bowlly)
Musical Interlude #107:
A Mother's Heart (Pyotr Leshchenko)
Musical Interlude #108:
Tout Va Bien Madame La Marquise (in Italian)
Musical Interlude #109:
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Ted Weems Orchestra)
Cinematic Interlude #110:
Love Is Strange (Lipstick On Your Collar)
Musical Interlude #111:
Musical Interlude #112:
Miss Wonderful (Ted Weems Orchestra)
Musical Interlude #113:
You're In My Heart But Never In My Arms (Jack Swain New Royal Band)
Musical Interlude #114:
You're In My Heart But Never In My Arms (Jack Swain New Royal Band)
Musical Interlude #114:
I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling (Gene Austin)
Musical Interlude #115:
I'm Funny That Way (Ruth Etting)
Cinematic Musical Interlude #116:
La Fille Du Bédouin (Georges Milton) (then click on the image of the camera)
Non-Musical Interlude #117:
Musical Interlude #118:
Irgendwo Auf Der Welt (Comedian Harmonists)
Musical Interlude #119:
Le Plus Beau Tango Du Monde (Tino Rossi)
Musical Interlude #120:
Nobody's Sweetheart Now (Adrian Schubert Orch.)
Musical Interlude #121:
I'm Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love (Libby Holman)
Musical Interlude #122:
I Still Get A Thrill Thinking Of You (Hal Swain Band)
Musical Interlude #123:
Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now (Ben Bernie Orch.)
Musical Interlude #124:
Musical Interlude #125:
Cinematic Musical Interlude #126:
Viktor Viktoria (Renate Muller, Anton Walbrook)
Musical Interlude #127:
Tout Va Bien Madame La Marquise (In Russian)
Musical Interlude #128:
Musical Interlude #129:
These Foolish Things (Cedric Gibbons)
Musical Interlude #130:
Every Thing I Have Is Yours (Billy Merrin's Commanders)
Musical Interlude #131:
Musical Interlude #132:
Just You, Just Me(Jack Hylton Orch., voc. Sam Browne)
Cinematic Musical Interlude #133:
When We Build A Little House (Eddie Cantor)
Musical Interlude #134:
Love Me Tonight (Annette Hanshaw)
Musical Interlude #135:
The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (Leo Reisman Orch., voc. Charles Carlisle)
Hugh:
Ochi chornya! My mother used to sing that to me when I was a wee lad. Of course, she was no Chaliapin.
Yrs
Robert
She may not have been Chaliapin but I know what Balanchine said about her.
No, Hugh, it wasn't Balanchine, if I recall the story correctly. It was Igor Stravinsky. He and Balanchine were, again if I recall the story correctly, standing together at the time of the incident -- so I may have it mixed up.
Yrs
Robert
Even better.
A special for Mr. Spencer:
Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H1Imb6jm0U
To all: a happy 2008
Wow, these are absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing these links.
I especially love the songs in French and the Eddie Cantor "Build a House" number.
So many wonderful things about western culture. Keep letting people know that it would all go into the dumpster should Sharia come to rule us.
Thanks and happy new years to all the staff and posters of JW/DW.
The "MTV and the VH1" before MTV and VH1.
Hugh,
This might be more up your alley. It's "By the Waterfall" with choreography by Busby Berkeley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=707VxB-ek4Q
The world is so full of humanly-created beauty: music, art, dance, sculpture, cinema.
Not only the beauty created by the Jews and by 'Christendom' broadly conceived; but also the beauty created by other non-Muslim peoples everywhere (think of traditional Indian and Thai and Cambodian female liturgical dance, for example - google a documentary called "The Tenth Dancer" to see how tenaciously Cambodians, after the madness of the Killing Fields, worked to restore, out of the ashes, the exquisite classical dance of their people).
And all that the Jihad plotters and preachers can see or hear, in all of it, the vast accumulated human store of beauty, wisdom and wit, what the Christian book of Revelations calls "the glory of the nations", is...jahiliyya, darkness, ignorance, to be ruthlessly destroyed and then resolutely forgotten, everywhere they gain the upper hand.
People, PLEASE do yourselves a favour and view these videos they changed my musical life, what a TREAT you are in for, trust me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58v-sJH_bI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9hGWaCBb0Q&feature=related
Just like to add Frank Sinatra loved Echo/Bunnymen