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

Any Bob and Ray is better than no Boh and Ray

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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

Just put this CD compilation out: The Smiths (Bessie, Clara, Mamie and Trixie) 1920-1929

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cos-compilation-106679848

Just on Patreon right now, might add it to Mixcloud in a bit (though it will probably not stick because they have a two-track-per-artist rule)

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01 Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds - Crazy Blues (1920)
02 Clara Smith - Kind Lovin' Blues (1923)
03 Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds - 'U' Need Some Lovin' Blues (1921)
04 Bessie Smith - Aggravatin' Papa (1923)
05 Mamie Smith - Lovin' Sam From Alabam' (1921)
06 Bessie Smith - 'Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1923)
07 Mamie Smith - New Orleans (1922)
08 Trixie Smith - Choo Choo Blues [take 2] (1924)
09 Bessie Smith - Hateful Blues (1924)
10 Clara Smith - Shipwrecked Blues (1925)
11 Mamie Smith - Lady Luck Blues (1925)
12 Bessie Smith - Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town (1926)
13 Mamie Smith - Goin' Crazy With The Blues (1926)
14 Clara Smith - Ain't Got Nobody To Grind My Coffee (1928)
15 Bessie Smith - Kitchen Man (1929)
16 Clara Smith - It's Tight Like That (1929)
17 Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (1929)

oooo

New today - 1948 Part Two - Move

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Three hours of sounds from 1948. Where part one was jagged and cut up, this one is smoothly layered and immersive, with music from Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Jordan and obviously a lot more than that, including a full section of rock & roll and a section built around Hamlet and Macbeth. But no news! That went in part one.

https://centuriesofsound.com/2024/07/24/1948-part-two-move/