Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
With Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, a British version of the cockroach song La Cucaracha by Harry Roy’s band, Peggy Lee about a honey-sweet kiss, big band jazz by Jimmie Lunceford’s band, amazing South African songs by Jim Reeves, from the early days of jazz former boxer Bernie Cummins, singer Kay Starr, who started in jazz, became immense popular with pop songs and then returned to jazz, Oscar Peterson, the Irish soprano and harpist Mary O’Hara, Luis Mariano, the Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan, June Christy in a forgiving song about a man who has has a bit on the side but doesn’t need to explain anything: Don’t explain, and the ultimate rural roots music of The Hoosier Hot Shots.
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