The Big Broadcast, Volume 2: Jazz and Popular Music of the 1920s and 1930s

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rivermont
• ASIN: B000P1KP40
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,337 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? - Eva Taylor

2. Mamma Goes Where Papa Goes - Arthur Hall with the Broadway Music Masters

3. Let's Talk About My Sweetie - Charles Kaley with Abe Lyman's California Orchestra

4. Spring Fever - Rube Bloom

5. South Wind - Walter Davison's Louisville Loons

6. Love and Kisses (From Baby to You) - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

7. Blue Baby - Kenneth Casey and His Orchestra

8. Because You Are My Dream Girl - Bob Nolan with Blue Steele and His Orchestra

9. I Get the Blues When It Rains - Irving Kaufman with Fred Rich and His Orchestra

10. Wasting My Love on You - Annette Hanshaw

11. Reaching for the Moon - Al Bowlly with Roy Fox and His Band

12. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Smith Ballew with Teddy Raph and His Orchestra

13. Was That the Human Thing to Do? - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees

14. Play Me a Frigid Air - Sid Peltyn and His Orchestra

15. Rise `n' Shine - Ramona with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

16. Oh! By Jingo - The Three Keys

17. Washington Squabble - Claude Hopkins Orchestra

18. With Every Breath I Take - Connie Boswell with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra

19. Believe It Beloved - Eddie Stone with Isham Jones and His Orchestra

20. I Got Shoes, You Got Shoesies - Cliff Edwards

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

For over thirty years, radio host Rich Conaty has brought the jazz and popular music of the 1920s and 1930s to listeners in New York City through his program The Big Broadcast, heard Sunday evenings on WFUV-FM. This second compilation selected by Rich features Eva Taylor, Arthur Hall, Charles Kaley, Rube Bloom, Walter Davidson's Louisville Loons, Paul Whiteman, Kenneth Casey, Bob Nolan with Blue Steele, Annette Hanshaw, Al Bowlly, Smith Ballew, Rudy Vallee, Sid Peltyn, Ramona with Paul Whiteman, Three Keys, Claude Hopkins, Connie Boswell with Jimmie Grier, Eddie Stone with Isham Jones, Cliff Edwards, Joe Venuti, Eddie Paul, Mezz Mezzrow, Don Redman and Red Nichols & His Pennies. Also contains a 16-page illustrated booklet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Big Broadcast compilation!, July 2, 2007

By	A. W. Senior "The Carpal Tunnel Kid" (Utica, New York United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just received this as a membership premium from WFUV, and it is excellent. It is fully as good as the first compilation, with esoteric recordings beautifully transferred to please the aficionado of vintage pop and jazz and the novice alike. Rich Conaty and the people at Rivermont have succeeded once again in producing an invaluable selection of great music.

Skeptic (Northeast) may gainsay this, but it's good stuff, and I commend it to your attention. Let him do his worst.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Bit As Good As Volume 1, July 21, 2007

By	B. McCanna "Barry McCanna" (Normandy, France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It seems like only yesterday that I was raving about Rich Conaty's compilation on Rivermont BSW 1141, and Volume 2 is every bit as good. In his introduction to the exemplary 16-page liner note Rich highlights the Connie Boswell, Al Bowlly, and Annette Hanshaw tracks as being issued on CD for the first time, and there are plenty more which, as he puts it, "have fallen between the reissue cracks". With over 30 years' experience of hosting his weekly radio program on WFUV-FM in New York City, he is a connoisseur of this era, and the result is a fascinating mixture of hot and sweet which demonstrates that jazz and popular music were not mutually exclusive domains. Many of the original 78 recordings are considerable rarities, to purchase any one of which would set you back a great deal more than the cost of this CD. I cannot recommend it too highly, and am looking forward already to Volume 3.

5.0 out of 5 stars Big Broadcast, Big sound, August 2, 2009

By	Josue Menjivar (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Really enjoyed this compilation. Excellent music right from the first track by Eva Taylor. The liner notes included are read worthy. As someone who enjoys music from the 20's and 30's, I can't recommend this album enough.
All the Big Broadcast compilations are unique in their own way but they just take you to a magical place that's worth going to often.