My favorite of recent threads revealed to me (and others) a treasure trove of websites with downloadable pop tunes from 1900-1930. I have filled hours of cassettes with everything from “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” to “I’ve Got the ‘Yes, We Have No Bananas’ Blues” to “Make a Noise Like a Hoop and Roll Away.”
Bliss.
Now, does anyone know any sites providing pop tunes from the 1940s and '50s" Or are we into sticky copyright territory there?
You are into sticky copyright territory.
But there are other ways to USE the NET to get GROUPS of what you speak. cough cough
Holy kazoosis!
Are you switching decade allegiances?
Will you be humming Artie Shaw’s “Special Delivery Stomp” and the Ad Libs’ “The Boy from New York City” at the next Dopefest?
Why would 1920s pop tunes like Frankie Trumbauer’s “Charleston” be pretty much free of copyright woes, but, say, Artie Shaw’s “Nightmare” might get one into trouble? Are the college kids really that much into Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller?
Have you ever heard my red-hot rendition of “Cry Me a River” or swung to my “Boogly-Woogly Piggy?” Hey, I decade-hop.
Glenn Miller?
GLENN MILLER???
NO ONE is into Glenn Miller.
Only th’ squares from Delaware.
. . . Don’t let Guin hear you say that. Hey, I even like Paul Whiteman, and The Andrews Sisters, so I am squarer than the hankie in your zoot suit.
Yeah, but Paul Whiteman and the Andrew Sisters (and Der Bingle)are so square they’re cube, so that’s okay. Even hep cats like me enjoy their musical stylings.
And I’m fine with Guin, who only likes Miller because she wants to sleep with him.
Circa 1942, of course.
To Hell with Shaw, the really hep people listen to Lunceford!
Ike- Boy from NYC was 1965. But I like the song.
I missed the tunes thread (1900-30s).Could someone direct me to it?
Boy from NYC * sans * mohair suit
The Board is running sooooo slowly now I can’t do a search–but the thread was called “A Site for Sore Ears,” here in Cafe Society, within the past month or so.
HEY! Dem’s fightin’ words!
Anyhoo, Eve, I don’t know if this site would interest you, but you might want to check it out.
Warning-it has a midi playing. (But the music is in WAV files)
The thread is here: A Site for Sore Ears
Told ya I bookmarked it!
Hmmm, that link doesn’t work, Guin: I get “Forbidden—You don’t have permission to access /~ambrosia/ on this server. Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.buffnet.net Port 80.”