depression (aka that 78 show)
Monday, January 26th, 2009
I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch.
You can’t take it with you when you go, even on an iPod…
ยป Wall Street Pavement Door Index
- They Shoot Horses Don’t They?
- Eddie Cantor with Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!
- Phil Spitalny’s Music – Cheer Up! Good Times are Comin’
- George Olsen – I’m in the Market for You
- Dick Robertson – If I Ever Get a Job Again
- The California Ramblers – Gotta Go To Work Again
- Jack Payne – I’ve Gotta Get Up And Go To Work
- Reading from ‘The Conquest of Happiness’ – Bertrand Russell, 1930
- backed by Paul Tremaine and his Aristocrats- Aristocratic Stomp
- Artie Shaw – Whistle while you work
- Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Long As You’ve Got Your Health
- Ted Lewis Orch. – Headin’ for Better Times
- Nelson Eddy – Dusty Road
- Ethel Waters – Stormy Weather
- Elsie Carlisle, Bert Ambrose & Orchestra – The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (22-07-1932)
- Al Foster aka Sid Gary – “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” (1929)
- Boswell Sisters – Put That Sun Back In The Sky 19-2-1932
- Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders (vocal refrain by Frank Luther) – Keep Your Sunny Side Up
- Ben Selvin & His Orchestra – Happy Days Are Here Again
- Ted Lewis – On the Sunny Side of the Street
- Cliff Edwards – It’s Only A Paper Moon
- Reading of ‘The Day of the Locust’ – Nathanael West, 1939
- backed by Benny Goodman & Charlie Christian – I Surrender, Dear
- Etting Ruth – Ten Cents A Dance
- Florence Desmond – Cigarettes, Cigars
- Bessie Smith – Gimme a pigfoot
- Bill Cox – NRA Blues
- Big Bill Broonzy – W.P.A. Blues
- Victoria Spivey – Detroit Moan
- Ethel Waters – What Did I Do To Be So Black And Blue
- Johnny Green Orch. – Repeal the Blues
- Reading from ‘Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
- backed by Al Bowlly, Ray Noble – California Here I Come (1935)
- Charlie Palloy and His Orchestra – Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
- Pinetop Smith – Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
- The Ink Spots – With plenty of money and you
- Red Norvo & His Orchestra – Slummin’ On Park Avenue
- Ben Poll And His Park Central Orchestra – Buy, Buy For Baby
- Benny Morton And His Orchestra – We’re in the Money
- Lew Stone And His Band – Pick Yourself Up
- Walter Huston – September Song
- George M. Cohan – Life’s A Funny Proposition After All
- Abe Lyman And His Orchestra – Riddle Me This
- Annette Hanshaw – I’m A Dreamer – Aren’t We All (4-12-1929)
- Bing Crosby/Connee Boswell/The Boswell Sisters/The Mills Brothers – Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
- Al Bowlly With Lew Stone And His Band – Easy Come, Easy Go
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