Question:
So I love the 40's.....?
LOVEMILY
2012-01-26 11:39:22 UTC
Okay so I'm a huge fan of the 40's-50's.
I'm looking for some music I can put on my iPod.
What are some good songs from that time period?
Or even modern songs with a 40's sound?
Like Big Band, swing, Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra, that kind of stuff.
Thanks!
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Four answers:
Christine S
2012-01-26 13:36:52 UTC
Well to start off, check out Yehoodi Radio:

http://www.yehoodi.com/show/radio

It's swing music selected by swing dancers!



You should also check out this Podcast:

http://www.yehoodi.com/show/heymisterjesse

Also swing music for swing dancing.



If you want to talk about, or read other people opinions on, swing music, then is is the best website:

http://www.swingdjs.com



You can also download original swing music for free on this website:

http://www.jazz-on-line.com

They are digital copies taken off of 78 records. There's a good collection on there. Use their search feature



There's also lots of general online services for online music such as Pandora, Spotify, Grooveshark, etc. But you also have to know where to start.



I'll recommend you start with the great big band leaders:

Count Basie

Benny Goodman

Artie Shaw

Chick Webb

Duke Ellington

Cab Calloway

Tommy Dorsey

Jimmy Dorsey

Jimmie Lunceford

Charlie Barnet

Earl Hines

Woody Herman

Fletcher Henderson

Johnny Hodges

Kay Kyser

Lionel Hampton

Lucky Millinder

(just to name a few)



You can also check out some small combo swing bands like:

Nat King Cole Trio

Cats and the Fiddle

The Three Peppers

Benny Goodman Sextet

Fats Waller

(etc.)



If you want something Modern with a classic swing sound, check out these artists:

Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five

Glenn Crytzer and his Syncopators

George Gee Big Band

Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra

Mora's Modern Rhythmists

Mora's Modern Swingtet

Solomon Douglas Swingtet

Pete Jacob's Wartime Radio Review



Anyway, I hope that helps! I hope you also take up swing dancing as well, since you like the music so much. :-)
Pepere Eldridge
2012-01-26 21:23:45 UTC
My favorite song from the 1940s is:



Until - Tommy Dorsey





other songs from 1940s & 50s

(I'll be loving you) Always - Frank Sinatra

I'll be seeing you - Jo Stafford (my favorite version...Jo Stafford vocals really tug at my heartstrings)

Manana - Peggy Lee

Rags to riches - Tony Bennett

Something's gotta give - Sammy Davis, Jr.

Old Cape Cod - Patti Page

Dark moon - Gale Storm

I'll never stop loving you - Doris Day

My heart reminds me - Kay Starr

A tear fell - Teresa Brewer

Cruising down the river - Russ Morgan

A tree in the meadow - Margaret Whiting

Return to me - Dean Martin

Buttons & bows - Dinah Shore

A little bird told me - Evelyn Knight (very sweet, upbeat, happy song)

Are you sincere? - Andy Williams

The Hawaiian wedding song - Andy WIlliams

Shanghai - Doris Day (I still LOVE this jitterbug tune from 1951.)

Undecided - The Ames Brothers (another great jitterbug song)

Glow worm - The Mills Brothers

Cross over the bridge - Patti Page

Hey there - Rosemary Clooney

Secret love - Doris Day

So rare - Jimmy Dorsey
~~Birdy~~
2012-01-26 20:22:34 UTC
Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey





Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby - Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXegyQvEDec&feature=related



Manteca - Dizzy Gilespie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tNKTgjNzA&feature=related



Sentimental Journey - Ella Fiitzgerald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2eug6FW79g&feature=related



Harry Connick Jr. is a modern-type Frank Sinatra. He covers him and has lots of originals too. Here is my favorite of his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwKxp9JS_3E
Samuel
2012-01-26 21:19:20 UTC
If you want to hear something with that kind of aesthetic, but what isn't cheesy ****, listen to the "Wazoo" album by Frank Zappa.

Or if you want true jazz as opposed to big band, Charles Mingus or Eric Dolphy.


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