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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Saturday, 31 October 2020

Scary Words, Scary Tune

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With this blog very much back up and running again I think it's time for another selection of topical tunes to celebrate that especially...
Friday, 31 July 2020

I Need Some Cooling Off - The Kit-Cat Band, Directed By Al Starita

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Well I had planned to give you a long and [hopefully] interesting post about one of my favourite subjects but - whew! - it's almost ...
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Thursday, 18 June 2020

Dame Vera Lynn: 1917-2020

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Dame Vera Lynn: Forces' Sweetheart dies aged 103 Still helping the country pull together in hard times right up to the end.  RIP. ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Music to watch the world go by

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Period sleuthing (and bow ties) are the order of the day! TV schedulers have a somewhat macabre sense of humour, I've decided.  In t...
Saturday, 8 August 2015

Reaching for Someone and Not Finding Anyone There

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First of all, a thousand apologies for the two months of radio silence as I rather let things go here at Eclectic Ephemera .  Rest assured I...
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

A Vintage Christmas Carol

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It's Christmas Eve, which must mean we're long overdue for another selection of festive ditties from down the years!  Well, you didn...
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Monday, 5 May 2014

Thirties thrills, tunes and tea

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Last week was another busy one for me, culminating in a trip to my local seaside resort of Southend for a job interview followed by lunch an...
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Saturday, 22 February 2014

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin is celebrated

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Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin is celebrated A bit later than planned thanks to the two previous exciting news items, this event ha...
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Monday, 20 January 2014

Benny Goodman 1938 concert revived

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Benny Goodman 1938 concert revived I stumbled across this item at the weekend and it instantly put me in a Big Band mood, as well as de...
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Saturday, 4 January 2014

Chaps, choo-choos and Charlestons

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With the Twelfth Day of Christmas nearly upon us and the New Year now 4 days old this will be my last Christmas post as I take the opportuni...
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Monday, 23 December 2013

Christmas Eve, Eve and Song

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Christmas is nearly upon us, which means it must be time for another medley of festive classics from the Big Band period of the 1930s-1950s....
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Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Hither and yon

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Apologies for another long period of radio silence (what is it this time, 3 weeks - but who's counting?).  A little hiccough rendered ...
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Wednesday, 17 July 2013

The sun has got his hat on!

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And it goes without saying that so should you, if you're out making the most of this summer weather.  Boaters, Panamas, pith helmets - b...
Saturday, 13 April 2013

All aboard the song train

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The starting of a new job seems to have coincided with a bit of a downturn in vintage news (not to mention my third cold in as many months!)...
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Thursday, 14 March 2013

'Antique pop' duo Victor & Penny breathes new life into old standards

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'Antique pop' duo Victor & Penny breathes new life into old standards It's an obscure source I have to thank for becomin...
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

Musical Interlude - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra - If You Want The Rainbow, 1928 / It's A Great Life, 1930

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  Two songs now - which I picked before I went away to help continue filling the expected gaps, unnecessarily as it turned out - and they...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Back in time!

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Hello everyone!  Yes, this is the author writing - live, alive and if I do say so myself quite well!  Huzzah! I can't begin to tell ...
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Monday, 10 December 2012

It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

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We're well in to December now, the tree's up and decorated and if the weather forecast is to be believed the snow is just around th...
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Friday, 30 November 2012

How Ferry 1920s!

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I'd actually been following this project for a while now, then like an eejit I forgot that the CD was released this week! What am I ...
Sunday, 28 October 2012

Here comes the Boogie (Woogie) Man

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Well the clocks have gone back one hour to good old Greenwich Mean Time and thoughts have turned to the fast approaching night of 31st Octob...
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