Found at the thrift store for a buck -- Glenn Miller EP on RCA Victor

Looked for this recording for a while and then found it at Goodwill...at last. 

 

 

Hank Williams Sr. -- You Were On My Lonely Mind, 1950

 

Frank Sinatra sends off 1943 with short end-of-year greeting, then "As Time Goes By"

Frankie!!

A video maker takes a look back at the DuMont television netowrk

A nice YouTube find!

 

 

Royal Hawaiians TV show sponspored by Regal Pale ale -- 1954

Harry Owens and the Royal Hawaiians on live TV, on a beer-sponsored show which ran for ten years, starting in 1948.

Cartoon of Kay's era -- see concert promoter Betty Boop find a female swing band leader in an unlikely place!

 "Sally Swing," from 1938:

 

 

Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands -- Jimmy Joy

Coca-Cola sponsored radio concerts featuring Big Band stars touring military bases and defense plants. Today's selection is a jumping version of "Blue Skies" from Jimmy Joy's band.  

 

 

 

 

 

From Kay's Era: "Up Pops the Devil" on film and on the radio too

Playwrights and screenwriters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett -- a married couple -- famously based a 1934 film script very loosely on the plot from Dsshiell Hammett's novel The Thin Man and begin a hit movie series about a wild-living, well-to-do, witty couple solving a crime. 

Three years before "The Thin Man" arrived in movie theaters, Goodrich and Hackett's play "Up Pops the Devil" became a film starring Carole Lombard and Skeets Gallagher. (This 1931 movie has a similar title to"Up Jumps the Devil," a lost 1941 comedy with an all-Black cast.)

The YouTube version of this early comedy detective film isn't the best quality, but there is a good-quality radio version done for Lux Radio Theatre in 1937. The radio version stars Fred MacMurray and Madge Evans. Enjoy!

Ida Red Likes to Boogie, but Kay Kemble didn't like Western Swing

 Kay was famous among friends for her dislike of the Western craze which took over music and movies in the 1940s and 1950s. This included Western Swing, for sure. But in the "Mama don't allow but I'm gonna play it anyhow" mode,I'm posting "Ida Red Likes the Boogie" by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.

Mystery novel of Kay's era benefits from author as screenwriter + direction by Michael Curtiz

 This suspense novel...

 

 

 ...became this film in 1947:
 

 

 

 

Movies of Kay's Era: Dick Tracy's Dilemma -- RKO -- 1947

 

Radio in Kay's Day: Dorothy L. Sayers story adapted for "Suspense" with Charles Laughton

Old-time radio show "Suspense" broadcast of "The Man Who Knew How," adapted from a story by Dorothy L. Sayers. 

 

 

 

People of Kay's Era, European edition: Children's author Enid Blyton

 Pathe film, 1946:

 

 

Music of Kay's Era: The Wedding Samba (1950)