On today’s show we have a selection of recordings over the years from 1934 to 1960. One of our earliest recordings is by Adrian Rollini and his group, featuring Adrian on bass saxophone, and our latest recording is from 1960 featuring the lovely voice of Chris Connor. We listen too to the Bobcats, a particularly …
2023-01-IHTSB-January-22 Bob Crosby, Benny Goodman, Joni James… Read More »
On today’s show we’ll be listening to six songs, not once but twice or three times. We’ll hear different artists, both singers and musicians, bring us their interpretations of these wonderful songs from the pens of the day. This gives us the opportunity to enjoy the varied approaches the artists took to interpreting the songs, …
2023-01-IHTSB-January-15 Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald… Read More »
On today’s show we go back to the 1920s and 1930s for our recordings. These were the days, on both sides of the Atlantic, of the early jazz orchestras and dance bands along with their singers, and the development of smaller groups of jazz musicians. Among others, we hear Bing Crosby and Buddy Clark setting …
2023-01-IHTSB-January 08 Bing Crosby, Joe Loss, Henry Hall… Read More »
Happy New Year, and welcome to another year of wonderful music on I’ve Heard That Song Before! It’s becoming a tradition on the show to start the new year off with fabulous jazz from recordings made by the great musicians at the time — today from the late 1920s to the late 1940s. We’ll hear …
2023-01-IHTSB-January-01 Fats Waller, Bud Freeman, Mugsy Spanier… Read More »
