# Your latest retro music discoveries **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026 "2009-04-05T02:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/41 "2009-04-06T19:41:20Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > I hope you’ve discovered [this album](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfwxqtgldte). I guess it was in 1990 or 1991 I read a feature in _Esquire_ calling “John Coltrane and Johhny Hartman” the “greatest record ever made.” I didn’t know who Hartman was at the time, but picked up the record. It is SO good! I have discovered it, believe me. Whoever called it the “greatest record ever made” just might be right. I don’t know much about jazz (although I will learn more now), but holy shit, those two are amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/42 "2009-04-06T19:48:08Z")
I’ve mentioned them before, but I will again : [Cruella DeVille](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruella_de_Ville). ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/43 "2009-04-06T19:55:56Z")
I hadn’t discovered Leonard Cohen until just a few months ago… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/44 "2009-04-06T22:29:19Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > I don’t know much about jazz (although I will learn more now) Have you any other deep interest? Put 'em aside, because this is going to require all of the rest of your life. Jazz is _that_ deep, rich and diverse. It’s why I stopped listening to new jazz. As I said upthread about record collecting, it was sucking away my life. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/45 "2009-04-06T22:43:49Z")
Anne Heart is awesome but I discovered her over a month ago. Having been in a “discovering” kind of mood lately though. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/46 "2009-04-06T22:57:37Z")
**Jeff** , thanks for the Sita Sings the Blues recommendation, will check it out beyond my slow ass dial-up. Looks great. **Beware of Doug** , an apt definition of 78 collectors. Do you know of Marshall Wyatt’s [Old Hat Records](http://www.oldhatrecords.com/)? If ya like the old 78 stuff, his compilations do the work— impeccably put together with great liner notes and photos; let Marshall do the crazy search/collection for ya! I’m on an Al Green rennaissance jag right now. Hot Grits and good soul. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/47 "2009-04-06T23:06:21Z")
The Bee Gees’ '60’s material. Before they became a disco hit factory, they were a soft-pop hit factory. 🙂 Also, Elton John’s 1975 hit [“Island Girl,”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Girl) which I caught halfway through on an oldies or classic rock (or whatever the NYC CBS Radio network music programmer calls it) station about a month ago. Damn, what a perfect pop song that is! I bet I hadn’t heard it in twenty years, but that’s my loss 'cause it’s a masterpiece – an uptempo song with a propulsively bouncy rhythm, inventive instrumentation, a great bassline – I need to get more Elton John in my music collection. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026/48 "2009-04-06T23:07:41Z")
I would also like to give a shout out to Helen Humes and Nellie Lutcher, a couple of old time shouters that are a lot of fun. Nellie’s rendition of “Hurry On Down” puts Bette Middler to shame. Roddy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-latest-retro-music-discoveries/492026.md?page=2)