Centuries Of Sound - mixes / audio collages for every year of recorded sound, 1860 to the present day.

CaAL! I am embarrassed that you would even offer to do that. But like… I’m not going to tell you not to!?! That is so kind of you.

Not to really ladle it on, but she was diagnosed w Stage 4 pancreatic cancer about 2 years ago. She’s been doing incredibly well, considering. Her quality of life has barely changed. Of course obviously her whole mentality has been rearranged. She’s been thinking a lot about how she fits into the universe. Like even - particularly - spatially. I made an orrery for her out of paper and cardboard last year. I don’t know if that helped. But I see this is something similar. A marker in time, a slice of not exactly reality, but what was deemed worthy of recording and either transmitting or selling, the year she was born. She probably won’t recognise much of it, the same way I wouldn’t recognise most popular culture from 1974. But I think she will get a kick out of it, particularly the way you mix it all together.

Posting this here too because why not eh? Why not?

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/10/25/a-1940s-halloween-from-centuries-of-sound/

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1946 Part Two – That’s All Right For You

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I know it's Coleman Hawkins, but this mix is basically "Rock & Roll Starts in 1946" + a few other bits.

Blog with all links is here - https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/11/21/1946-part-two-thats-all-right-for-you/
Mixcloud is here - https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/1946-part-two-thats-all-right-for-you/
Patreon is here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/1946-part-two-93180874

Tracer Hand, working on something for you!

I am actually home with my mom right now and I’ve been thinking about this. I recorded her today, answering questions about her childhood. She spent about 45 minutes getting up through age 5 lol.

Here you go then! I can also add a Christmas 1939-45 mix OR if you wait a week or two a Christmas 1946-1954 mix I'm working on.

Here is the link

(For anyone else, this is the two mixes turned into six CD-sized mixes, each with artwork and tracklist, please grab it yrselves if you like)

CaAL you are my hero! Thank you so, so much. (And I’m very psyched for the Xmas mix.)

No worries! Just happy that someone has a use for these.

Anxiously awaiting the Xmas mixes

Seriously, this is heroic.

The first three Christmas mixes are already out there

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/14/christmas-1902-1924-deep-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time-the-mix/

https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/12/20/centuries-of-sound-presents-a-holiday-between-the-wars-christmas-records-1926-1938/

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/12/20/a-wartime-christmas-1939-1945/

Working on the next one (1946-1954) now, any ideas for a name are welcome!

Oh, awesome! Downloading now. Thank you CAAL!

CAAL have you got captions for the great cover art on those CDs? Particularly interested to know what those mysterious holes are that people are looking through.

Listening to the Halloween mix on Mixcloud. This is exceedingly well done.

Did that 1946-1954 Christmas mix ever get posted anywhere? (the Wartime Christmas mix was a hit at my house)
Great work on these CAAL!

just finishing it off today!

any suggestions for the name? "Post-war Xmas" is a bit dull, this is full of classic famous stuff

istr Michael Daddino called his late lamented 1950 Spotify playlist “The Bomb In The Heart Of The Century”

The sixpence in the heart of the Christmas pudding of the century

Stuck in the middle with Yule

If I Knew You Were Comin I’d Have A Baked A Cake

Xmas (Formerly Known as Christmas)

Enjoy Your Christmas (It’s Later Than You Think)

Haha, excellent :)

You were quick in there!

For everyone else:

Baby It’s Cold War Outside – Christmas Records 1946-1954

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0:00:00 Red Skelton – Clip from Raleigh-Kool Radio Program – Christmas Stories (1946)
0:00:04 Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) (1946)
0:03:11 Jimmy Stewart – Clip from It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
0:03:50 Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter Orchestra – White Christmas (1947)
0:06:43 Burns & Allen – Clip from Christmas Presents (1946)
0:07:31 Guy Lombardo & The Andrews Sisters – Winter Wonderland (1946)
0:10:09 Abbott & Costello – Clip from Christmas Show (1947)
0:11:24 Frankie Carle & His Orchestra with Majorie Hughes – Little Jack Frost Get Lost (1947)
0:14:02 Gene Lockhart – Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:14:32 Gene Autry – Here Comes Santa Claus (1947)
0:17:02 Life of Riley – Clip from Family Christmas Present (1947)
0:17:05 Spike Jones & His City Slickers – All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) (1948)
0:20:12 Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show – Clip from Christmas Present (1948)
0:20:23 Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye – Merry Christmas At Grandmother’s House (1948)
0:22:38 David Niven – Clip from The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
0:23:01 Kay Starr – December (1949)
0:26:21 Unknown – Radio Commercial for Eggnog (1949)
0:26:36 Louis Jordan & Ella Fitzgerald – Baby, It’s Cold Outside (1949)
0:29:15 Much Binding In The Marsh – Clip from Christmas Programme (1948)
0:29:28 Amos Milburn – Let’s Make Christmas Merry, Baby (1949)
0:32:18 Dragnet – Clip from 22 Calibre Rifle for Christmas (1950)
0:32:23 Lionel Hampton Orchestra – Boogie Woogie, Santa Claus (1950)
0:35:04 Matinee with Bob and Ray – Clip from Christmas Season Program (1949)
0:35:08 Henry Jerome and His Orchestra – Sleigh Ride (1950)
0:36:47 Stars Over Hollywood – Clip from A Christmas Carol (1951)
0:36:57 Sauter-Finegan Orchestra – Midnight Sleighride (1952)
0:39:13 Suspense – Clip from The Night Before Christmas (1951)
0:39:35 Weekend Hyttens Kor And Orkester – Bjaldeklang (Jingle Bells) (1951)
0:41:53 Jack Benny Program – Clip from Christmas Shopping (1951)
0:42:26 Jan Garber And His Orchestra – Frosty The Snowman (1951)
0:45:01 Let’s Pretend – Clip from ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (1952)
0:45:23 Les Brown Orchestra – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1952)
0:47:46 Billy May and His Orchestra – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (1954)
0:50:20 Bing Crosby with The Rhythmaires – Sleigh Ride / Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1953)
0:55:30 John Payne – Clip from Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
0:55:54 Eartha Kitt – Santa Baby (1953)
0:59:13 Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet – Clip from The Lost Christmas Gift (1953)
0:59:16 Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters – White Christmas (1954)
1:01:53 Truth or Consequences – Clip from Christmas Show (1947)

...and the previous mixes

Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time
A Holiday Between The Wars, Christmas Records 1926-1938
A Wartime Christmas 1939-1945

Nice to see some Bob and Ray in there!

Not very much though I'm afraid.

Any Bob and Ray is better than no Boh and Ray

https://i.imgur.com/U8d1J1I.jpg

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I upcycled two old three-CD cases (best of Eddy Mitchell and an Alistair Cooke comp) to make a two-volume set and chose the pictures I liked best. I'm REALLY pleased with this. I'm going to visit my mom tomorrow.

Hope yr mom enjoyed the CDs, TH.

And also, here is 1947 Part One.

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https://centuriesofsound.com/2024/02/22/1947-part-one-cubana-bop/

May post a tracklist tomorrow, see how I feel.

what a great photo, and such a cool era for jazz. is this tadd dameron's first appearance on record?

Tadd Dameron's first appearance was probably in the early 40s as piano player for Harlan Leonard (and I could probably check this somewhere)

I had some better cover images, but as the blog was about Chano Pozo & Dizzy Gillespie I thought I should probably illustrate that.

Here's the tracklist anyway

0:00:00 Unknown Birds – Birdsong (from Louis Kaufman – Vivaldi Four Seasons intro)
(Clip from You Bet Your Life – Secret Word ‘Air’)
0:00:36 Dizzy Gillespie – Cubana Be
(Clips from Are You Popular?)
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:02:59 Amos Milburn – Chicken Shack Boogie
0:05:25 Charlie Parker Quintet – Bird Of Paradise
(Clip from Alastair Cooke – Letter From America – New Year 1947)
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:08:31 Maddox Brothers & Rose – Honky Tonkin’
(Clip from The Walgreen Show – Groucho Marx/Bob Hope)
0:11:01 Ella Fitzgerald – How High The Moon
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
0:14:23 Wild Bill Moore – We’re Gonna Rock
0:16:11 Frank Sinatra & Jimmy Durante – From The Heart
0:20:47 Spike Jones & His City Slickers – William Tell Overture
0:23:54 Sonny Boy Williamson II – Shake That Boogie
(Clip from You Bet Your Life – Secret Word ‘Air’)
0:26:53 Sister Rosetta Tharpe And Marie Knight – Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
0:29:19 Julia Lee – Tell Me, Daddy
(Clip from Easy To Get)
0:32:18 Little Brother Montgomery Quintet – El Ritmo
(Clip from Home Record of a Birthday Party)
0:35:21 Tadd Dameron Sextet – The Chase
(Clip from Bob Hope & Bing Crosby – The Road To Hollywood)
0:38:26 Chet Atkins – Canned Heat
(Clip from Dark Passage)
0:41:51 Hank Williams – Move It On Over
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
0:44:45 Chano Pozo Y Su Orquestra – Rumba En Swing
0:47:18 Dizzy Gillespie – Manteca
(Clip from Human Reproduction)
0:50:20 Manhattan Paul & Paul Bascomb Orchestra – Rock And Roll
(Clip from Alan Lomax – What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:53:18 ’22’ With Little Red, Tangle Eye, & Hard Hair – Early In The Mornin’
(Clip from Alan Lomax – What Makes A Work Song Leader?)
0:55:39 Tangle Eye – Tangle Eye Blues
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
0:58:00 John Cage, Maro Ajemian, William Masselos – Three Dances for Two Pianos
(Clip from Marlon Brando – Screen Test for Rebel Without A Cause)
0:59:48 Nellie Lutcher – He’s A Real Gone Guy
(Clip from Inner Sanctum – Death Bound)
1:02:51 Vladimir Horowitz – The Hut On Fowl’s Legs
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
(Clip from The Postman Always Rings Twice)
1:06:15 Charlie Parker Quintet – Superman (The Hymn)
(Clip from British Movietone Review of the Year)
1:08:48 Band Of The Gold Coast Police – Dagomba
(NBC in Chicago ident)
1:11:41 Muddy Waters – I Feel Like Going Home
(Clip from Out of the Past)
1:15:01 Betty Hutton – I Wish I Didn’t Love You So
1:17:41 Henry Red Allen – Indiana
(Clip from India Breaks Free – British Pathe)
1:21:34 Ivory Joe Hunter – I Like It
(Clip from Oor Willie – The Man With Many Voices)
1:24:13 Johnny Doran – My Love Is In America
(Clip from Oor Willie – The Man With Many Voices)
1:27:01 Pete Seeger – Come All Fair Maids
(Clip from Don’t Be A Sucker)
1:29:48 Robert Mitchum – Foolish Pride
(CLip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:32:59 The Four Aces Of Western Swing – Yodel Your Blues Away
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre – The Jazz Singer)
1:35:46 Freddy Martin & His Orchestra – Managua, Nicaragua
(Clip from Lux Radio Theatre – The Jazz Singer)
1:37:12 Edmundo Ros – Manana
1:39:10 Ella Logan & Donald Richards – Look To The Rainbow (Introduction)
1:39:27 Annie Laurie – Since I Fell For You
(Clip from Black Narcissus)
1:42:21 Thelonious Monk – Who Knows?
(Clip from Dark Passage)
1:45:03 Ichimaru – Samisen Boogie
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:47:05 Yukie Kubo – Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Coalminer’s Tale)
(Clip from Shanghai)
1:49:06 Tabata Yoshiro – Machi No Dateotoko
(Clip from The Lady From Shanghai)
1:51:59 Gatemouth Moore – Did You Ever Try To Cry
(Clip from Babe Ruth – Farewell To Baseball)
1:54:10 Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker – Dizzy Atmosphere
(Clip from Babe Ruth – Farewell To Baseball)
1:57:16 Bill Harris And Charlie Ventura – High On An Open Mike
(Clip from Babe Ruth – Farewell To Baseball)
2:02:03 Stan Kenton – Peanut Vendor
(Clip from Babe Ruth – Farewell To Baseball)
2:06:51 Ted Weems & His Orchestra – Heartaches
(Clip from Are You Popular?)
2:09:34 Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Linda
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:13:00 Ernest Tubb – Have You Ever Been Lonely?
(Clip from Shy Guy)
2:15:48 Big Maybelle – Sad And Disappointed Girl
(Clip from DDT – So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:18:25 Mamica – Nwomboko
(Clip from DDT – So Safe You Can Eat It)
2:19:36 Woody Herman – Sabre Dance
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:22:10 Cab Calloway – Everybody Eats When They Come To My House
(Clip from Along Came Daffy)
2:25:02 Spike Jones – Popcorn Sack
(Clip from Easy To Get)
2:27:39 Stick Mcghee – Drinkin’ Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
(Clip from Crowing Pains)
2:29:46 The Sons Of The Pioneers & Roy Rogers – Cool Water
(Clip from Bob Hope & Bing Crosby – The Road To Hollywood)
2:31:58 Sons Of The Pioneers – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
(Clip from The Humpbacked Horse)
2:33:36 Joe Morris – The Applejack
(Clip from Don’t Be A Sucker)
2:35:15 Mahalia Jackson – Amazing Grace
(Clip from Don’t Be A Sucker)
2:38:24 Louis Kaufman – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
2:41:57 Louis Jordan – Run Joe
(Clips from Montreal By Night)
2:45:19 Les Baxter – Radar Blues
(Clip from Montreal By Night)
2:48:18 Ernie Harper – Chicago Boogie
(Clip from Out of the Past)
2:51:15 Merle Travis – Sixteen Tons
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L’etranger)
2:54:12 Line Renaud – Ma Cabane Au Canada
(Clip of Albert Camus reading L’etranger)
2:56:40 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France – Diminishing
2:57:36 The Stanley Brothers – Standing In The Need Of Prayer
2:59:23 Jimpson With Men Chopping Trees – No More, My Lord
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:00:59 Sister Rosetta Tharpe – How Far From God
(Clip from Odd Man Out)
3:03:15 Ethel Waters – A Hundred Years From Today
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)
3:06:13 Big Maceo Merriweather – My Own Troubles
(Clip from Monsieur Verdoux)

She did, CaAL.

Here's the new one, 1947 Part Two - Boptamism!

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https://centuriesofsound.com/2024/04/10/1947-part-two-boptamism/

Streaming, blurb, etc. under the link.

awesome. can't wait to check it out.

do you know who the fourth guy is in the photo? the one holding the book?

A little googling suggests it's pianist Joe Albany

ah -- good call. i kept coming up short. thanks.

anthony kiedis and flea produced a biopic about him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkN2YS-myAg

Sorry for the self-indulgence but this might be the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Wonderful collection of music from 1947.
for anyone needing respite from all the horror.

1947 Part Two - Boptamism https://t.co/7fOYQkFPMT via @Centuries_Sound

— MsAlfieB 🇵🇸 #StopThe Genocide#BDS#ItWasAScam (@duduschka) April 20, 2024

I just played a couple of months then my speaker ran out of juice, so waiting to charge it, as laptop speaker so anaemic. He's not well, very weak, and it's hard to find stuff to cheer him up... he loves it, and me too. So many wonderful people we never heard of....

— MsAlfieB 🇵🇸 #StopThe Genocide#BDS#ItWasAScam (@duduschka) April 20, 2024

omg is that who I think it is

Yes she is, and yes he is!

Amazing

hooooooly moly!

Shit, is that Alfie Benge?!

Amazing in itself, but to think a simple 'he' could signify so much more!

holy crap, that's amazing. can someone please send more stuff like that to cheer bob up?!?!

New episode up! 1948 Part One

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https://centuriesofsound.com/2024/06/12/1948-part-one-something-big-out-of-something-little/
https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/1948-part-one-something-big-out-of-something-little/

For 1948 instead of splitting things chronologically I've made two very different styles of mix. This first one is about tape recording and television, it has a jerky, cut-up edit style and includes more of the experimental and novelty music, as well as the year's news clips and juxtaposed samples from TV commercials, etc. So I can put a tracklist, though it is very far from complete.

0:00:00 Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Violette
0:01:01 Les Paul - Lover
0:04:44 Texas Ruby & Curley Fox - Come Here Soon
0:07:44 Charlie Parker's All Stars - Constellation
0:10:16 Raj Kapoor - Solah Baras Ki Bhayee Umariya
0:16:12 Woody Herman And His Orchestra - Sabre Dance
0:19:43 Muddy Waters - I Feel Like Going Home
0:23:22 Willy Walden & Piet Muyselaar - Jantje Is Gaan Voetballen
0:25:06 Youkoui Bamileké - Ngwop
0:27:14 Mado Robin - Air De La Reine De La Nuit
0:28:59 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Ill Barkio
0:32:30 Rose Murphy - Cecilia
0:36:35 Red Ingle & The Natural Seven - Cigareetes, Whuskey, And Wild, Wild Women
0:39:45 Astor Piazzolla - Villeguita
0:42:29 Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right?
0:46:39 Sotiría Béllou & Vasílis Tsitsánis - Péfteis Se Láthi
0:50:30 Dalila Rochdi - Haragli Guelbi, Pt. 1
0:54:13 Mukesh & Shamshad Begum - Raat Ko Jee Chamke Taare Aag
0:57:55 Elder A. Johnson - God Don't Like It
1:00:21 Willie Gumede & His Concertina Band - U Gumede
1:04:17 Arthur Smith - Guitar Boogie
1:09:51 Les Paul - What Is This Thing Called Love?
1:14:07 Roy Hogsed - Cocaine Blues
1:18:32 Tex Williams - Drop Dead
1:20:07 Pierre Schaeffer - Etude Pathetique
1:20:57 Ann Miller - Shakin' The Blues Away
1:24:15 Dave Brubeck - How High The Moon
1:29:32 The Sauceman Brothers - Hallelujah We Shall Rise
1:31:04 Standard Radio Sound Effect - Canadian Geese
1:33:32 John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson - Stop Breaking Down
1:36:22 Dick Wellstood - So in Love
1:40:41 Charles Mingus - Mingus Fingus
1:49:46 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France - Just For Fun
1:53:02 Chet Atkins - Dizzy Strings
1:56:15 Πρόδρομος Τσαουσάκης , Σωτηρία Μπέλλου - Συννεφιασμένη Κυριακή
2:00:03 Lightnin' Hopkins - Down Baby
2:03:51 Red Ingle - Pearly Maude
2:07:08 Julia Lee - Do You Want It?
2:11:19 Shona - Shuga
2:14:23 Kasagi Shizuko - Sakura Boogie Woogie
2:17:42 Shamshad Begum - Kaahe Koyal Shor Machaye
2:20:45 Flatt & Scruggs - Farewell Blues
2:24:14 Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra - Oop-Pap-A-Da
2:29:41 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - None But The Lonely Heart (A Soaperetta)

As you may guess this took ages to piece together, luckily that means the other half should be a lot smoother.

!

listening now