Topic: PODCASTS
George Spink's handy guide to the 12 Juke Box podcast pages he has completed on his Tuxedo Junction Juke Box website:

Airmen of Note click here | Available Recordings

Benny Carter click here | Available Recordings

Variety 3 click here

Charlie Barnet click here | Available Recordings

Tommy Dorsey click here | Available Recordings

Variety 4 click here

Count Basie click here | Available Recordings

Variety 1 click here

Variety 5 click here

Les Brown click here | Available Recordings

Variety 2 click here

Variety 6 click here Simply click on any link to visit that page.

Now Playing: The Andre Kostelanetz papers
Topic: CONDUCTORS

The papers of legendary conductor, arranger and broadcaster Andre Kostelanetz have been donated to the Library of Congress by his estate. Kostelanetz died in 1980. The gift is a veritable treasure trove for students of 20th century music and broadcasting. The archive of Kostelanetz' personal property, papers, clippings, letters, sound recordings, posters, and photographs spans some 73 crates. It documents in detail the career of one of America's most remarkable men of music. The gift from Kostelanetz' estate will complement the gift of scores and parts for many of his arrangements Kostelanetz made to the Library of Congress. His papers will join those of George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, and Irving Berlin, among others in the Library's collection of material belonging to eminent American musicians.

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David Rose 'California Melodies'
Now Playing: Episode 41
FLOTOW's Martha Deserted City Walking By The River with vocalist Maxine Gray The Old Oaken Bucket RAVEL's Pavanne All I Desire with Maxine Gray Ukelele Finale Melody on notes G C E A Boomp3.com

Diahann Carroll
Topic: SINGERS
The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way
All Things Considered, September 26, 2008 · For more than 50 years, actress and singer Diahann Carroll has been breaking barriers. She was the first black woman to win a Tony for best actress, and the first black woman to star in her own TV show — while not playing a maid. As the title character in that sitcom, Julia, Carroll became the model for one of the first black Barbie dolls...MORE - WEB - IMAGES - SHOP Diahann Carroll

Topic: COMPOSERS

Burt Bacharach's official press biography is effusive, impressive, overwhelming - and almost beside the point. The 14-page document dutifully lists the tangible signs of recognition given to the 80-year-old composer. There are chart-toppers and megahits, Grammys, Oscars and other awards, tributes from fellow legends - and even a placing on People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive list as recently as 2000. But Bacharach's importance can't possibly be measured in statues, statistics and statements. What matters, in the end, is the groundbreaking level of sophistication he brought to pop music.---Bernard Perusse, Montreal Gazette Published: Thursday, September 25

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Topic: OBITS
Connie Haines, a peppy, petite, big-voiced singer with a zippy, rhythmic style who most famously teamed up with Frank Sinatra as lead vocalists with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, then went on to a prolific career of her own, died on Monday, 23 SEP 2008, in Clearwater Beach, Fla. She was 87. Born Yvonne Jasme she began singing and dancing at an early age. Her big break came in 1935, at age 13, when she won an amateur contest on Fred Allen's NBC radio program. During the late 1930s she worked for Howard Lally's orchestra. In 1939 bandleader Harry James heard Haines rehearsing at a New York music publishing company and hired her for his band, changing her name. She left the following year and kept busy with solo engagements around the New York area before being hired by Tommy Dorsey, where she joined former James bandmate Frank Sinatra. In 1941 Haines landed the spot as featured vocalist on Abbott and Costello's radio program.

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Now Playing: VOA Podcast
Topic: DOWNLOADS
Composer Sammy Cahn wrote the lyrics to some of America's most popular songs, recorded by Frank Sinatra and dozens of other artists. Cahn died 15 years ago, but Mike O'Sullivan reports, a recent tribute to the composer reintroduced his music to a new generation.

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California Melodies with David Rose
Now Playing: episode 40
Topic: DOWNLOADS
Wagner's Hymn To the Evening Star Time Stood Still Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn To the Sun It All Comes Back To Me Now vocalist Maxine Gray Perfidia Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No. 10 So You're The One vocalist Maxine Gray Silver Threads Among the Gold

Now Playing: Benny Goodman's Camel Caravan
Topic: DOWNLOADS
Camel Caravan was a musical variety radio program, sponsored by Camel cigarettes, that aired on NBC and CBS from 1933 to 1954. Various vocalists, musicians and comedy acts were heard during the 21 years this show was on the air, including such talents as Benny Goodman, Georgia Gibbs, Anita O'Day and Vaughn Monroe. It debuted December 7, 1933, on CBS as a showcase for Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra later Benny Goodman's band until June 25, 1936. Five days later, the show was reformatted on June 30 as Benny Goodman's Swing School with vocalists Martha Tilton and Johnny Mercer with Jack Oakie's College added to the hour on December 29. While this aired on Tuesdays on CBS until June 20, 1939, another Benny Goodman Camel Caravan was heard Saturdays on NBC during 1939.

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Topic: ChristmaSongStories

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