Your favorite music from 1933

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).

 

Sonny Scott - The Complete Recordings in Chronological Order (1933) (released as Document /RST 3525-2 in 1988)

 

Art Tatum Tea For Two

 

Max Steiner - King Kong score

 

What a cool thread. What made you decide on 1933?

 

"We're in the Money" from Gold Diggers of 1933. Heck, anything would sound good watching that film.

 

My Granny used to sing this tune! Bing Crosby | You're Getting To Be A Habit

Guy Lombardo Bing Crosby - You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me 1933

 

One more more to my Grandaddy's speed: The Delmore Brothers | I've Got The Big River Blues

 

Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose of Texas

 

Xavier Cugat - My Shawl

 

Jack Teagarden - Texas Tea Party

 

Al Jolson

 

Louis Armstrong, St. Louis Blues

 

Duke Ellington - Sophisticated Lady

 

Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, "Can You Take It?" featuring Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax

 

Try a little tenderness. Bing Crosby with Orchestra. 78rpm. Columbia 1933..wmv

 

Recorded August 4, 1933 for Bluebird, here's Ted Weems and His Orchestra with "Heartaches," a song that finally became a #1 hit in 1947. A later 1938 version on Decca was the one that was revived, but Victor reissued this older recording, too, and both were listed together on the Billboard charts.

 

1933 is kinda like 1960 or 1961 - in that the hot music of the previous decade had faded, and the cool new stuff (swing) hadn't quite arrived. So you've got a lot of crooners and mellow vocalists.

That said, this did happen that year:

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"It's Only a Paper Moon" (music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg and Billy Rose)

"Smoke Get's in Your Eyes" (music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Otto Harbach)

Too many recorded interpretations to count or rank.

 

1934 was a better year

 

The Old Man Of The Mountain

Cab Calloway and Mae Questel

Crank it!