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Big Band Remotes From The 40′s

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Jan 162011
 

Popular radio during the 1930s and throughout the 1940s included live coast-to-coast radio transmissions of "big bands", or dance bands. These live remotes were held mostly in hotels, ballrooms, restaurants and clubs. During the war years, it was expanded to include military bases and defense plants.

For your listening pleasure, we bring you:

Gene Krupa (pictured to the left) and his Orchestra live from the Hotel Astor in New York City, 08/15 1945

Duke Ellington live from Union College in Schenectady New York, 11/06 1948

Glenn Miller live from Glen Island Casino, New York 07/20 1939

(click on any title below, to listen) 

 

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1940s Film Noir Music

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Jan 152011
 

If you enjoy the art of using music to enhance a movie's foreboding atmosphere, we now have a playlist of twenty terrific Film Noir movie themes, with more in the pipeline. The titles include "Laura, Force Of Evil, The Blue Gardenia, The Postman Always Rings Twice" and sixteen other and equally important pieces.

I believe the score from Double Indemnity captures the mood and follows the locations, events, and characters nearly perfectly, and maybe better than any other of the era. It's all very compelling, however!

You can listen here:   http://1940s.org/film/film-noir/

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