Ay!

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Música:
Les Brown & His Orch
Mexican Hat Dance (1941)
OKEH 6697

Les Brown and his Orchestra: Eddie Bailey, Bob Thorne, Joe Bogart (tp) Warren Brown, Si Zentner (tb) Bob Fishel (tb) Les Brown (cl) Steve Madrick, Abe Most (as) Wolffe Tayne (ts) Henry "Butch" Stone (cl,as,bar) Billy Rowland (p) Joe Petroni (g) Charlie Green (b) Eddie Julian (d). New York, October 1941

Penal

Penalty

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In The Penal Colony

Música:
Erskine Hawkins & His Orch
Let The Punishment Fit The Crime (1939)
BLUEBIRD 10218

Erskine Hawkins and his 'Bama State Collegians: Erskine Hawkins, Wilbur Bascomb, Marcellus Green (tp) Sam Lowe (tp,arr) Edward Sims, Robert Range (tb) William Johnson (as,arr) Jimmy Mitchelle (as,vcl) Paul Bascomb (ts) Haywood Henry (bar) Avery Parrish (p) William McLemore (g) Leemie Stanfield (b) James Morrison (d). New York, July 20, 1936

Zufälligheit

Fortituidad

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Musik:
Leo Reisman & His Orch
You Will Remember Vienna (1930)
VICTOR 22512

Un dibujo del pasado

Lost Faith

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Un dibujo del pasado (2004) / A Golden Oldie

Música:
Chicago Black Swans
You Drink Too Much (1937)
CONQUEROR 8780

Chicago Black Swans: Big Bill Broonzy (g,vcl) acc. by Alfred "Mr. Sheiks" Bell (tp) Arnett Nelson or Odell Rand (cl) Black Bob (p) unknown 2nd g-1 and perc. The percussions sounds produced by tapping the body of the guitar. Chicago, January 26, 1937

Tráfico

Traffic

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Música:
Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
Traffic Jam (1939)
(Teddy McCrae-Artie Shaw)
BLUEBIRD B-10385-A

Artie Shaw and his Orchestra: John Best, Bernie Privin, Chuck Peterson (tp) George Arus, Les Jenkins (tb) Harry Rodgers (tb) Artie Shaw (cl) Les Robinson, Hank Freeman (as) Tony Pastor (ts) Georgie Auld (ts) Bob Kitsis (p) Al Avola (g) Sid Weiss (b) Buddy Rich (d) Teddy McCrae (arr). Hollywood, June 12, 1939

Padre

Letter

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K. escribe su famosa "Carta al Padre"

Música:
Bunny Berigan & His Orch
Father, Dear Father (1938)
(Joe McCarthy-Harry DeCosta)
VICTOR 26061A

Bunny Berigan and his Orchestra: Bunny Berigan, Irving Goodman, Steve Lipkins (tp) Ray Conniff, Nat Lobovsky (tb) George Bohn, Gus Bivona (as,cl) Georgie Auld, Clyde Rounds (ts) Joe Bushkin (p) Dick Wharton (g,vcl) Hank Wayland (b) Buddy Rich (d) Bernie McKay (vcl). New York, September 13, 1938

Chacales y Arabes

Jackals and Arabs

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Música:
V-DISC ALL STARS
The Sheik Of Araby (1944)
Hot Lips Page (tp,vcl)
V-DISC 418

Bobby Hackett (cnt) Hot Lips Page (tp,vcl) Lou McGarity, Jack Teagarden (tb) Ernie Caceres, Nick Caiazza (cl,ts) Johnny Guarnieri (p) Herbe Ellis (g) Al Hall (b) Specs Powell (d). New York, December 6, 1944

Postage

Franqueo

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K. Le envia una carta sin estampillas a Milena.
K. Posts a letter to Milena without a stamp.

Música:
Wisconsin Skyrockets
Postage Stomp (1928)
PARAMOUNT 12642

Jesse Cohen and his University of Wisconsin Skyrockets: Bunny Berigan ***(tp) Don Bonn (tp,cl,ts) Jesse Cohen (p) + others. Chicago, Ill., April 1928.
***Walter Bruyninckx informs in his famous discography that Bunny Berigan was in the recording, but there are many doubts -including denials- about that presence. el editor

Niños

Children

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- ¿Y por qué no duermen?
- Porque no están nunca cansados.
- ¿Y por qué no?
- Porque son tontos.
- ¿Y los tontos no se cansan?
- ¿Cómo van a cansarse los tontos?

"Niños en la carretera"- Franz Kafka, 1904
"Children on a country road"- Franz Kafka, 1904

Música:
The Lion
Send You Children To Orphan Home
DECCA 17284B

"...Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable, and at all but a few points effectively inaudible, or in Caribbean patois. But verbal understanding is not necessary to convince hearers that it is a saga of a rollicking Trinidad wench".
More information here from Time on Monday, Aug. 29, 1938 !!!

Premonición

Premonition

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Música:
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch
I Had A Premonition (1941)
DECCA 3718B

Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra: Gerald Wilson (tp) Snooky Young (tp) Paul Webster (tp) Elmer Crumbley, Russell Bowles (tb) Trummy Young (tb) Willie Smith (cl,as) Dan Grissom (cl,as,vcl) Jimmie Lunceford (as,arr) Ted Buckner (as) Joe Thomas (cl,ts,vcl) Earl Carruthers (cl,bar,as) Edwin Wilcox (p) Al Norris (g,vln) Moses Allen (b) Jimmy Crawford (d) Don Redman (arr). New York, March 26, 1941