Digging for treasures in music history. From the 1920s: ‘Tiptoe through the tulips’ by sweet-voiced Nick Lucas. You also hear the last of the ‘Red Hot Mamas’, Sophie Tucker, and twice ‘Alabama bound’ by Odetta and by Papa Harvey Hull
Further, the revival at the time of ‘Maggie’ – trumpet player Howard McGhee who made his comeback with the album ‘Maggie is back in town’, ‘Bounce Blues’ of and by Ben Webster with Oscar Peterson.
Also twice, ‘La Matchiche’, by ‘the father of the musette style’, Emile Vacher, and by Felix Mayol who made his name with his feminine style, which now would be called ‘camp’ – and, what’s more, he was the one to discover Maurice Chevalier.
Besides: trumpet player Blue Mitchell, June Christy, Kathryn Grayson with a song from ‘Anchors Away’, Peggy Lee, a cheerful Liberace, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Chet Baker, and one of the great sons of the Italian song, Emilio Livi, with a gypsy story.
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