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

Not sure why I didn't put all of this in a single thread from the start to be honest.

Index of all episodes is here - https://centuriesofsound.com - so far everything between 1860 and 1939, plus 2016-2019

Anyway, here, after a longer-than-planned gestation period, is 1939

https://centuriesofsound.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/1939-icon.jpg

This one is a BIGGIE - four and a half hours of swing, rhythm & blues, samba, country, film clips, music from around the world, interwoven sound collages of original news, lots more I cannot list here for reasons of space.

If you want the WWII collage, that's the final hour. But I think the first three and a half hours are more interesting.

Blog post with all links, etc - https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/10/17/1939/
Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/centuries-of-sound-1939/

Tracklist is hidden, it's quite long.

0:00:00 Victor Young - Prelude
(Clip from BBC Winston Churchill - Ten Weeks Of War)
(Clip from The Voder - Homer Dudley Bell Labs)
0:00:38 Harry James - Here Comes The Night
(Clip from 1939-09-03 BBC Places Of Entertainment To Be Closed)
0:01:32 Solomon Linda & The Evening Birds - Mbube
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
0:04:33 Betty Hutton - Ol' Man Mose
(Clip from Gone With The Wind)
0:07:16 Glenn Miller - In The Mood
0:10:49 Al Donahue - In The Mood (Paula Kelly, Vocal)
(Clip from Ninotchka)
0:11:31 Carmen Miranda - Mama Eu Quero
0:13:27 Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
(Clip from The Women)
0:17:24 Art Tatum - Tea For Two
(Clip from Gone With The Wind)
0:19:54 Lionel Hampton - Central Avenue Breakdown
(Clip from Young Mr Lincoln)
0:23:01 Pete Johnson - Let 'em Jump
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
0:26:31 Billie Holiday - Some Other Spring
(Clip from 1939-03-08 BBC Gas Mask Drill)
(Clip from A.R.P. - Gas All Clear (Handbells))
0:29:40 Willie 'The Lion' Smith - Echoes Of Spring
(Clip from 1939-03-15 BBC Chamberlain After Czech Invasion)
0:32:07 Duke Ellington - Sergeant Was Shy
(Clip from Only Angels Have Wings)
0:34:47 Xavier Cugat - One Two Three Kick Conga
(Clip from Ninotchka)
0:36:24 The Manhattan Brothers - Thaba Tseu
(Clip from Gone With The Wind)
0:39:12 Raymond Scott - Oil Gusher
(Clip from Bachelor Mother)
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
(Clip from The Cup Final 1939)
0:41:24 Benny Goodman Sextet - Flyin' Home
0:44:35 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Ida Red
0:46:52 The Carter Family - Hello Stranger
(Clip from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
0:48:59 Grigoraș Dinicu - Hora Lui Ion Dinicu Și Sârbă Lui Tanţi
(Clip from General Franco in Barcelona)
0:50:09 Sexteto Flores - Un Besito No Mas
(Clip from Hollywood Hobbies)
0:53:31 Artie Shaw - Begin The Beguine
(Clip from Philo T Farnsworth - The Birth of Television)
0:55:27 Carl Stalling - Good Egg
(Clip from Beau Geste)
0:55:53 Hoosier Hot Shots - Like A Monkey Likes Cocoanuts
(Clip from Dodge City)
0:57:50 Cats And The Fiddle - I Miss You So
(Clip from La Règle du Jeu)
1:00:22 Charles Trenet - Mam'zelle Clioénilmontant
(Clip from Le Jour se lève)
1:03:51 Georgius - Sur La Route De Pen-Zac
(Clip from La Règle du Jeu)
1:05:31 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Avec Stéphane Grappelli - Younger Generation
(Clip from The Voder - Homer Dudley Bell Labs)
1:07:59 Gus Viseur - Swing 39
(Clip from Lou Gehrig - Farewell To Baseball)
1:10:43 John Kirby - Effervescent Blues
1:12:29 Andy Kirk - Twinklin'
(Clip of Dr_James_Naismith_-_Creator_Of_Basketball_In_Rare_Interview)
(Clip from Eve_Ad_2000)
(Clip from Blondie_Dagwood_-_Dagwoods_New_Suit)
1:15:60 Count Basie Orchestra - You Can Depend On Me
(Clip from Blondie_Dagwood_-_Dagwoods_New_Suit)
1:19:14 Bud Freeman - The Eel
1:20:39 Lead Belly - Poor Howard / Green Corn
(Clip from Drums_Along_the_Mohawk)
(Clip from Goodbye_Mr_Chips)
1:23:45 Ari Barroso, Lamartine Babo - No Rancho Fundo
(Clip from Judy_Garland_and_Mickey_Rooney_-_1939_newsreel_footage)
1:25:47 King Radio - It's The Rhythm We Want
(Clip from Midnight)
1:28:28 Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care
(Clip from Confessions_of_a_Nazi_Spy)
1:32:08 Lagos Mozart Orchestra - Esan Inyong Ikide
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
1:34:07 Flanagan & Allen - Nice People
(Clip of WC_Fields_in_You_Can’t_Cheat_An_Honest_Man)
1:35:56 杉井幸一 - おけさ節
(Clip from Son of Frankenstein Trailer)
1:37:23 Carl Stalling - Rubber Dog
1:37:39 Judy Garland - The Jitterbug
(Clip from Blondie_Dagwood_-_Dagwood's_New_Suit)
1:39:03 Raymond Scott - Bumpy Weather Over Newark
(Clip from Bachelor_Mother)
(Clip from The Voder - Homer Dudley Bell Labs)
(Clip from Breakfast_Pals)
1:40:07 Ramblers - Drie Kleine Vischjes (Vocal - Wim Poppink)
1:41:02 Kay Kyser - Three Little Fishies
(Clip from Hollywood_Hobbies)
1:42:42 Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers
(Clip of James_Hilton_discussing_his_Goodbye_Mr_Chips_-_CBS_Radio_Interview)
1:44:45 Patricia Rossborough - Sunrise Serenade
1:46:09 Thaton Ba Hein - Taw Hnit Taung Swe
(Clip from Intermezzo)
1:48:08 Sukru Tunar - Cifte Telli
(Clip from Ninotchka)
1:51:08 Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll 'em Pete
1:52:55 Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Gravy
(Clip from Midnight)
1:54:31 Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Keep A-Knockin' (But You Can't Come In)
(Clip from Gone With The Wind)
1:56:20 Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra - Denison Swing
(Clip from Stagecoach)
1:59:36 Gene Autry - Back In The Saddle Again
(Clip from Drums_Along_the_Mohawk)
2:01:42 Ida Cox - Death Letter Blues
(Clip of Lincoln's_cross_examination from_Young_Mr_Lincoln)
2:03:21 Jelly Roll Morton - Oh Didn't He Ramble (+ Sidney Bechet)
2:06:10 Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train
(Clip from In_Name_Only)
2:08:45 Mills Brothers - Georgia On My Mind
(Clip from Destry Rides Again)
2:11:38 Sidney Bechet Quintet - Summertime
2:15:26 Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit
2:18:47 Perihan Altindag And Rakim Elkutlu - Ne Bahar Kaldi Ne Gul
2:20:43 Hanende Agyazar Efendi - Kessik Kerem
2:22:05 Tommy Dorsey - Dawn On The Desert
(Clip from Philo_T_Farnsworth_-_The_Birth_of_Television)
(Clip from Ninotchka)
(Clip from The_Man_In_The_Iron_Mask)
(Clip from Mr_Smith_Goes_to_Washington)
2:24:35 Johnny Hodges (Ellington) - Dooji Wooji
(Clip from Only Angels Have Wings)
2:27:17 Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul
2:30:14 Larry Clinton; Bea Wain - Deep Purple
(Clip from Gone_with_the_Wind)
2:32:30 Chick Webb - Undecided
(Clip from Swing_Dance_In_Secret)
2:35:46 Coleman Hawkins - Fine Dinner
(Clip from Midnight)
2:38:15 Carmen Miranda - South American Way
2:40:02 Dorival Caymmi - O Que É Que A Baiana Tem
2:43:00 Francisco Alves - Aquarela Do Brasil
2:44:59 The Growler - Trinidad Loves To Play Carnival
(Clip from Rules_of_the_Game)
2:47:33 The Atilla - La Reine Maribone
2:49:26 Cab Calloway & His Orchestra - The Jumping Jive
(Clip from Ninotchka)
2:51:36 Bram Martin - Chopsticks (Vocal - Bob Howard)
(Clip from The Women)
2:52:38 Slim Gaillard - Matzoh Balls
2:54:45 George Formby - Sweet Sue, Just You
2:56:06 Arthur Askey - The Worm
2:58:11 Flanagan & Allen - Run, Rabbit, Run
3:00:53 Johnny & Jones - We Hoeven Niet Te Hamsteren
3:02:48 Andrews Sisters - Beer Barrel Polka
(Clip from The Voder - Homer Dudley Bell Labs)
3:05:05 Pyi Hla Pe - Shwe-Tanga
3:07:54 Will Bradley Trio - Down The Road A Piece
(Clip from Lou_Gehrigs_1939_Radio_Interview_While_at_the_Mayo_Clinic_on_1340_KROC_AM)
3:10:57 Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big
3:13:59 Rex Stewart (Ellington) - Fat Stuff Serenade
(Clip from Machine_Made_Voices)
3:15:52 See There Singing Band Kumasi - Anoma Oreko
3:17:52 Be Sackey's Band Of Appam - Nkyrinna
3:18:41 Kpagon Band Accra - Ba Wo Ni Aya Ye
3:20:43 Lead Belly - Fannin Street
3:22:25 Pete Johnson - Barrelhouse Breakdown
(Clip from The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame)
3:24:00 Andy Kirk And His Twelve Clouds Of Joy - Floyd's Guitar Blues
3:27:05 Edward Heyman & The Les Paul Trio - Out Of Nowhere
3:29:56 Stéphane Grapelli - Baby
3:32:36 Glenn Miller - Moonlight Serenade
(Clip from Of_Mice_and_Men)
(Clip from Goodbye_Mr_Chips)
3:37:09 Debutantes & MGM Studio Orchestra - Optimistic Voices
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
3:38:02 MGM Studio Orchestra- March Of The Winkies
(Clip from 1939-08-27 BBC Czech Ambassador In London On Poland Situation)
3:39:08 Toscanini, NBC Orchestra - Beethoven 3 Symph. Funeral March
(Clip from 1939-08-28 - CBS Coverage on the Eve of WWII)
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
(Clip from 1939-08-31 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports On German 16 Point Plan)
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
(Clip from 1939-09-01 State Of Armed Conflict With Poland)
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
3:42:40 Pablo Casals - Bach No. 5 In C Minor - I- Prelude (Adagio - Allegro Moderato)
(Clip from 1939-09-01 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports The Invasion Of Poland)
(Clip from 1939-09-01 BBC Ignace Paderewski On The War Looming Before Poland)
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
(Clip from 1939-09-03 BBC Britain Declares War On Germany)
(Clip from 1939-09-03 BBC Prime Minister Chamberlain Declares War On Germany)
3:46:24 Max Steiner - The Death Of Melanie
(Clip from 1939-09-03 BBC King George VI Addresses The Nation)
(Clip from 1939-09-03 BBC Places Of Entertainment To Be Closed)
3:50:30 Toscanini, NBC Orchestra - Beethoven 3 Symph. Funeral March
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
3:53:05 Django Reinhardt - Echoes Of Spain
(Clip from 1939-09-01 BBC Alvar Liddell Reports On Evacuation Of Children)
(Clip from 1939-09-01 BBC S J de Lotbiniére Reports Further On Evacuation)
(Clip from 1939-09-01 BBC S J de Lotbiniére Reports Train Now Leaving)
3:54:22 Bert Ambrose - Nasty Uncle Adolf (Vocal - Jack Cooper)
(Clip from 1939-09-10 BBC Evacuee Message To Parents)
3:56:50 Judy Garland - Over The Rainbow
(Clip from 1939-10-13 BBC Children's Hour Broadcast By Princess Elizabeth)
4:00:04 Art Tatum - Over The Rainbow
4:00:27 MGM Studio Orchestra - Terrified Lion
(Clip from Adolf Hitler - Speech - 1939-09-22 - Poland and it's imminent defeat)
4:01:01 Max Steiner - Soldiers In Retreat
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
4:02:20 Toscanini, NBC Orchestra - Beethoven 3 Symph. Funeral March
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
4:03:17 Pablo Casals - Bach No. 4 In E Flat - I- Prelude (Allegro Maestoso)
(Clip from 1939-10-01 BBC Winston Churchill - The First Month of the War)
4:05:27 Golden Eagle Gospel Singers - A Warrior On The Battlefield
4:08:02 Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Precious Lord
4:10:33 Roland Hayes - 'Roun' 'Bout De Mountain
4:11:59 Duke Ellington - Informal Blues
(Clip from 1939-10-15 (BBC Richard Dimbleby) By a French Road)
4:14:21 Art Tatum - Deep Purple
(Clip from 1939-11-11 BBC Queen Elizabeth - Fortitude Of Women)
4:17:35 John Kirby - Dawn On The Desert
4:20:21 Django Reinhardt - Echoes Of Spain
(Clip from Review of the Year 1939)
4:21:39 Victor Young - The Scroll And The Storm
(Clip from 1939-12-18 BBC Winston Churchill - The Sinking Of The Graf Spee)
(Clip from HM King George VI - The Royal Christmas Message of 1939)
4:23:58 Lale Andersen - Lili Marlen
(Clip from HM King George VI - The Royal Christmas Message of 1939)
4:27:39 Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again (Novachord - Arthur Young)
(Clip from The Roaring Twenties)

(This one is a BIGGIE - just to warn you, the longest mix I've ever made. The last hour is the WWII collage, if that's what you're here for)

If it's of interest to anyone (unlikely, but possible) I wrote a Twitter thread as I made this mix to show how it was done -

PROGRESS THREAD OF THE 1939 MIX

As promised, here is a daily update on how 1939 is going. A year ago I spent a month listening to recordings from 1939, now I have a three neat-ish folders. pic.twitter.com/5NfQxxTjp0

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 7, 2021

this looks amazing

Thanks dm, I hope it is.

Haven't updated this for a while (have been away) - anyway

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1940-icon.jpg

https://centuriesofsound.com/2021/12/07/1940/

HD stereo recordings from Stokowski layered over recordings from the war, Woody Guthrie, last great year of swing

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1941-icon.jpg

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/03/11/1941/

Earliest be bop recordings, jump blues, verite-style montage of radio recordings from day of Pearl Harbor attacks

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1942-Icon.jpg

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/05/30/1942/

War becomes pop culture, John Cage, Casablanca, much more of a sound collage than previous mixes.

...I won't post tracklistings, these things are each around four hours of audio.

Tremendous!

Thanks TH, these are becoming exponentially difficult to produce, though I have made a rod for my own back with downloading so many hours of old radio. Hoping something comes along that will let me devote more time to them, but nothing on the horizon.

The 1942-44 Petrillo/musicians strike is such an overlooked event in the history of pop music. I still can’t believe it actually happened. It killed the big bands!

Wasn’t overlooked by the late Phil Schaap.

i cannot wait to listen to these, thanks as always!

by the way, i've been listening to your 1950 mix (yet again) because it's that year in a biography i'm reading. makes for wonderful reading music

(although i'm sure most radio stations were too square to play some of the more raunchy material? maybe i'm wrong on that?)

I haven't got to 1950 yet, KM, are you thinking of Michael Daddino's "The Bomb At The Heart Of The Century"?

have you see this, CaAL? feels somewhat adjacent to your interests..

https://citiesandmemory.com/2022/05/open-call-your-field-recordings-of-obsolete-sounds-wanted/

I did see that, yeah, and have been doing a lot of field recording these days, still can't think of anything that would fit though!

I made this field recording / ambient / noise / found sound LP at the start of the year, if anyone's into that stuff.

https://centuriesofsound.bandcamp.com/album/the-westering

I haven't got to 1950 yet, KM, are you thinking of Michael Daddino's "The Bomb At The Heart Of The Century"?

for fuck's sake, yes, and that is not the first time i've done this. i'm sorry. i'm not used to having multiple people's names i recognize tackling old school annual music mixes!

at any rate, i'm digging into 1940 now

So it's been a long time in gestation, but here finally is 1943!

The AFM strike + low vinyl production due to the war means that there is very little recorded music from the USA in 1943, so I have made a soundscape of music (mainly V-discs / movie soundtracks / non-US-releases / etc.) and movie clips, radio broadcasts, etc. which I'm putting out in twelve more digestible bits.

So here is part one, including blog - https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/08/23/1943-part-1-introduction-january/ - this section includes Lena Horne, Charlie Parker, Mildred Bailey, Efisio Melis, Oscar Aleman, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Barnet, Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France and "Shadow Of A Doubt"

I've been putting this mix up in chunks.

PART ONE - INTRODUCTION + JANUARY

Featuring Lena Horne, Charlie Parker, Mildred Bailey, Efisio Melis, Oscar Aleman, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Barnet, Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France and "Shadow Of A Doubt"

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/08/23/1943-part-1-introduction-january/

https://i.imgur.com/PNVU9TP.png

PART TWO - FEBRUARY

This part is mostly a wartime sound collage over and under lengthy selections from Duke Ellington's 'Black, Brown & Beige' concert, but also features Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots, The Golden Gate Quartet & The Nat King Cole Trio

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/09/01/1943-part-2-february/

https://i.imgur.com/ozs0lzm.png

PART THREE - MARCH

This part features Yma Sumack, Evelyn Künnek, Louis Jordan, Nat King Cole & Dexter Gordon, Flanagan & Allen, George Lewis, Harry Roy, Four Vagabonds, "Women of Steel" "The Human Comedy" and "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman"

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/09/05/1943-part-3-march/

https://i.imgur.com/9TnuFzy.png

PART FOUR - APRIL

Featuring Miguel Caló, Alberto Podestá, Carlos Di Sarli, Roberto Rufino, Django Reinhardt, Spike Jones, Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, Shinda Gikombe and "I Walked With A Zombie"

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/09/07/1943-part-4-april/

https://i.imgur.com/7wEsqU1.png

PART FIVE - MAY

Featuring Jimmy Yancey, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Charlie Parker, Jay McShann, Carroll Gibbons, Freddy Martin, Fats Waller, Ada Brown, "Five Graves to Cairo" and the notorious Axis Sally.

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/09/09/1943-part-5-may/

https://i.imgur.com/Cenh8cA.png

PART SIX - JUNE

Featuring The Andrews Sisters, Oscar Aleman, Carlos Di Sarli, Roberto Rufino, Ameerbai Karnataki, Khan Mastana, Nattiyakkalaye, Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"https://t.co/z3mkWqUhhi pic.twitter.com/vgfjwY3jKl

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 12, 2022

PART SEVEN - JULY

Featuring Lead Belly, Dorothy Maynor, Frank Sinatra, Carmen Miranda, Edith Piaf, Lord Invader and "For Who The Bell Tolls"https://t.co/OMqxuWyS4q pic.twitter.com/MktCvBqP9X

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 14, 2022

PART EIGHT - AUGUST

Featuring Concha Piquer, Duke Ellington, Ray Nance, Benny Carter, Rueben Solomon & His Jive Boys, Jimmy Dorsey, Kitty Kallen, Anne Shelton and "Private SNAFU"https://t.co/9fju1nfiBe pic.twitter.com/r5K1PT3udC

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 17, 2022

PART NINE - SEPTEMBER

Featuring a long genuine sequence of a bomber crew flying over Germany, also with Ella May Morse & Freddie Slack, Big Bill Broonzy, The Four Vagabonds, Dicky Wells, Spike Jones, Lum & Abner and Yvonne de Treberthttps://t.co/tq9PuIZsmP pic.twitter.com/JK975pz9yl

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 22, 2022

PART TEN - OCTOBER

Featuring "Lassie Come Home", Charlie Parker, Aníbal Troilo, Sekinomu, Django Reinhardt, Lead Belly and The New Mayfair Dance Orchestrahttps://t.co/q49u0U0TI4 pic.twitter.com/dAF97h1qhm

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 26, 2022

PART ELEVEN - NOVEMBER

Featuring Wild Bill Davison, Louis Jordan, Yma Sumack, Charles Trenet, Nat King Cole and Fats Wallerhttps://t.co/oB2zshzXfD pic.twitter.com/YMG0oSx3wl

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) September 30, 2022

PART TWELVE - DECEMBER + CLOSING

Featuring Stuff Smith, Dicky Wells, Nat King Cole, Shamshad Begum, Custódio Mesquita, Bing Crosby, The Andrew Sisters, Xavier Cugat, Amos & Andy, Fibber McGee & Molly.

And that's about it! #CenturiesOfSoundhttps://t.co/0cERCcaUxq pic.twitter.com/G49rkDTv0m

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) October 5, 2022

Sorry for laziness re:twitter repostings

Anyway, here is the whole thing, streamable.

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/12_116725237.jpg

https://centuriesofsound.com/2022/10/06/1943/

https://www.mixcloud.com/centuries_of_sound/centuries-of-sound-1943-single-mix/

As noted before, this is an odd one as the record business was essentially shut down for the duration of the year.

I can't wait :)

Thank you CAL!

Thanks TH (not sure if this is in regard to the mix above or the Halloween mixes I just put out)

Lol all of it!

Progress has been slow this year, but I've put out three compilations this Christmas - first two were out previously, last one is brand new.

Christmas 1902-1924: Deep Magic From Before The Dawn Of Time

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Deep-Magic-cover.jpg?w=400

Christmas 1926-1938: A Holiday Between The Wars

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/a-holiday-between-the-wars-front.jpg?w=400

Christmas 1939-1945: A Wartime Christmas

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Cover.jpg?w=400

Love these, CaAL, thank you for your service

On my podcast app, the earliest file I can access is 1942 (May 13, 2022). Did you switch audio formats then, or is there some kind of hosting limitation, or…?

There has been a problem between WordPress and Google Podcasts somewhere, think it is basically fixed, but the apps will probably take a few days to re-scan the old feeds.

Anyway, new one out today, this is for the first half of 1944. Have decided to start splitting the things up to preserve my sanity.
Full tracklist under the link - scroll down for the mixcloud player, the podcast download is a shorter preview version

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1944-Part-1-Icon.jpg

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/01/10/1944-part-one/

New one out today, but featuring very little in the way of music. I edited down all the original recordings I could find of D-Day (around 60 hours) into this 80-minute soundscape. Put the whole thing up as a download as copyright issues are less of a concern this time, but it's also up at Mixcloud, etc.

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/02/06/d-day-tuesday-6th-june-1944/

thank you for keeping us posted. i know i'm not the only one here who adores your mixes. keep it up and sorry i don't comment on them as often as i'd like to.

New one out today for patrons and it's brilliant!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/1944-part-three-79707269

Thank you!

It's out for everyone else too -

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/03/07/1944-part-three/

(look for the Mixcloud player if you want the whole thing)

SO anyway here it is

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1944-Part-3-Icon.gif

https://centuriesofsound.com/2023/03/07/1944-part-three

Features a good deal of original radio recordings, as discussed upthread I had WAY too many for 1944 and that's why everything has taken so long.

Aside from radio, film clips, speeches, etc, you can hear:

Louis Jordan, Boyd Raeburn, Dinah Washington, Wally Bastiansz, J.J. Johnson, Illinois Jacquet, Jack Mcvea, Nat King Cole, Les Paul, Johnny Miller, Lee Young, Stan Kenton, Phil Harris, Arsenio Rodríguez, Woody Guthrie, Tino Rossi, Sergei Provokiev, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Lead Belly, Lucky Millinder, Wynonie Harris, Cecil Gant, Coleman Hawkins, Tampa Red, Charles Wolcott, Nestor Amaral, Bing Crosby, Walter Houston, Artie Shaw, Spike Jones, Julia Lee, The Andrews Sisters, Rev Utah Smith, Harry James, Josh White, Ernest Tubb, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Edmond Hall, Carmen Miranda, Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Meade Lux Lewis, Zohrabai Ambalewali, Sons Of The Pioneers, Wee Bea Booze, Kansas City Five, Cootie Williams, Orquesta Casino De La Playa, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ángel D'Agostino and Ángel Vargas.

I love all of this and one reason why is the absence these mixes evoke - absence of the audience that was listening at the time, when this stuff was floating through the air, part of the mix of popular culture. You can imagine its contours, its reactions, its absent-mindedness, but the audio only partially helps you do that, the rest is a void, unknown apart from whatever knowledge you have to bear about 1944 (probably very little). But the audio remains, as vivid and true to itself as it was back then - probably truer, because of the incredible fidelity of today's equipment. Like touching the side of a cathedral.

Centuries of Sound is great! I’m sure that mix is amazing but I’m currently at 1917 (how have I never heard the incredible “Livery Stable Blues” before?) and I want to go in chronological order, not gonna skip any years. I’ll get to 1944 eventually. All in good time. I also love the Centuries of Sound radio podcast on Cambridge 105 radio. Great stuff!

Thanks both - yes TH, I do think about the lives of people at this time, have been researching my grandparents' wartime experiences for my other project and wonder what the world sounded like to them - this is why I have a doodlebug at the start of 1944 part 1. I do also wonder about how much restoration work I should do, it's a complicated question because if the quality is better than would have been experienced at the time then that doesn't feel right. I've used some of the worse quality radio recordings to add tuning-in effects, but this kind of pseudo-authenticity just reminds me that everything is constructed, and everything is a decision I've made rather than an untouched artefact.

Mr Snrub, yes Livery Stable Blues is a great record, it is a shame that the novelty jazz of 1917-1922 is so completely disregarded, though I can well understand the reasons.

Maybe Tracer's mum has one of those fancy MP3 CD players

She does not 😭

I’m sure I can figure something out

I'll put something together for you

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

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

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

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

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.

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/pozo-gillespie.jpg

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!

https://i0.wp.com/centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/1712/74/Howard_McGhee_Brick_Fleagle_and_Miles_Davis_ca_September_1947_Gottlieb-scaled.jpg

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?!?!