Tag: Friday

My favorite honky-tonk pianist, Moon Mullican, performs "What Have I Done That Made You Go Away" (from 1945). Source link

Guitarist Michael Leonard Mann - better known as Hollywood Fats - teams up with saxophone man Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson on "Cleanhead Blues". Source link

Jo Stafford sings that touching ballad, "The Gentleman is a Dope". Source link

Boogie-woogie pianist Hadda Brooks joins up with guitar man Teddy Bunn on "Variety Bounce".Bonus video! Lots of people can tap dance; Russ Tamblyn shows how it's done with shovels. Source link

Here's one of my favorite jazz guitarists, Mary Osborne, performing "I Surrender Dear".Bonus video! And for a chaser, we have Spike Jones and the boys with "Cocktails for Two". Source link

Artie Shaw and the gang with "At Sundown". Source link

The extraordinarily soulful voice of Little Miss Cornshucks (born Mildred Jorman), backed by Calvin Jackson and the Blenders, in "Keep Your Hand on Your Heart" (1948). Source link

Benny Goodman and his orchestra, right about the time he started attracting a national following, performing "Goody Goody" (then-20-year-old Helen Ward is the singer). Source link

Here's Howard McGhee with a typically boppish song title, "Thermodynamics". Jimmy Bunn is playing the piano, Bob Kesterton's slappin' the bass and Roy Porter's on drums. Source link