Your favorite music from 1932

Can be a single track, a 78 with multiple tracks, early albums (as in literal albums of 78s bound together), a classical piece, a later compilation focusing on the year . . . whatever.

Doesn't have to be a list, though of course you can post a list if you want. You can also just post one title at a time as you think of it/run across it (which is what I do in these threads).

 

There's some dispute about the date on this one, but as far as I can tell, it was recorded in 1931 and first released in January 1932 on the Banner label, #32349:

Gene Autry & Jimmy Long - "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine"

 

@Terrapin Station , Your (1932 thread) proposition may be good but let's have one thing understood:
Whatever it is, I'm Against It and even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it
I'm opposed to it, On general principles, I'm opposed to it

 

Memphis Minnie


'Where is my good man'
78 Record: Memphis Minnie (Minnie McCoy) - Outdoor Blues (1932)

 

Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone?

 

Bline Willie McTell "Lonesome Day Blues"

 

Written by Ann Ronell.
Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Marcellino - Willow Weep For Me. How many versions of this have I enjoyed over the years...too many to count.

 

Peetie Wheatstraw (The Devil's Son-In-Law), a major influence on Robert Johnson
Police Station Blues

 

Boswell Sisters (backed by the Dorsey Brothers). Great jazz w/ top notch three part harmonies.

 

Well I had to look up what the hell people were listening to in 1932, but . . . well, Cole Porter's "Night and Day" came out in '32.

That tune has some legs . . .

 

Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"

 

Louis Armstrong, "Tiger Rag"
Live in Copenhagen, 1932

(EDIT: someone in YT comments says that it's from 1933, and not really played for a live audience. Oh, well. Pops is still killing it.)

 

My absolute favorite of the crooners, Mr. Al Bowlly.

 

Listen to all while reading The Tropic of Cancer.

 

Al Jolson- April Showers

 

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others."
-GM

 

Jimmie Rodgers - Miss The Mississippi And You

 

Most likely something by Marlene Dietrich. Hot Voodoo?

 

Bing Crosby - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

 

Popular Selections⸻Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
❨Program Transcription imprint /RCA-Victor–L-16007❩


Mississippi /Flaming Youth⸻Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
❨Victor–24057❩


Creole Rhapsody—Part 1 /Creole Rhapsody—Part 2⸻Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
❨Victor–36049❩


Mood Indigo /When a Black Man's Blue⸻Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
❨His Master's Voice [Australia]–E.A.989❩

 

'The Rich Man and the Poor Man' - Bob Miller


https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Miller-...he-Rich-Man-And-The-Poor-Man/release/12666997

 

'Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead' - Lesley Sarony (released in UK in May, 1932)

Parts 1 & 2 -

78 Record: Leslie Sarony - Ain't It Grand To Be Blooming Well Dead - Part 1 (1932)

'It must be swell to be laying out dead' by Alex Bartha and his Hotel Traymore Orchestra (recorded in New Jersey July, 1932; withdrawn shortly after release and reissued with an instrumental 'Hot Biscuits' replacing 'It must be swell')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4jghycXJk&ab_channel=Nefer0ne
https://www.discogs.com/Washboard-R...-Swell-To-Be-Laying-Out-Dead/release/13089878

 

Blind Blake


https://www.discogs.com/Blind-Blake-Night-And-Day-Blues-Sun-To-Sun-Blues/release/15391505