The Good Old Days (Sort Of)
Jun. 15th, 2004 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redthroatedloonOkay, I'm going to start a new LJ group having to do with the music of the 1920s and 1930s. My Significant Other has obtained a collection of the songs that were listed in a book written by somebody named Whitburn -- apparently a bunch of fans got together online and came together with a list of the definitive versions of all these wonderful popular and jazz numbers.
They're great -- they're bouncy and weird and political (especially the 1929 songs, which are overwhelmingly about booze and money) and some of them are downright filthy. They make me happy just to listen to them. And nobody can wail like Bessie Smith. ("I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me...")
(It occurs to me that, in a place as large as LJ, there may very well be some folks into the music of the 1920s. Better search 'em out>0
They're great -- they're bouncy and weird and political (especially the 1929 songs, which are overwhelmingly about booze and money) and some of them are downright filthy. They make me happy just to listen to them. And nobody can wail like Bessie Smith. ("I ain't got nobody, and nobody cares for me...")
(It occurs to me that, in a place as large as LJ, there may very well be some folks into the music of the 1920s. Better search 'em out>0
