Shellac Stack No. 254 hawks peanuts with both Fred Rich and Harry Reser! We dance with the California Ramblers, Sam Lanin, King Oliver, and Jay Wilbur and enjoy sides by Ethel Merman, Charlie Barnet, “Hum and Strum,” Frank Froeba, and more. Plenty of good music on this week’s program! Thanks for keeping the music spinning with your contribution on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 253 sits on a rainbow alongside the Cabaret Four. We hear from Earl Hines, Marek Weber’s Orchestra, jazz vocalist Leo Watson, Dolly Dawn, Fred Hamm, Orville Knapp, the Cotton Pickers, and many more. Join us! Thank you for your continued support on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 252 walks with sweetness — and Sam Lanin! We hear from Radio Girl Vaughn De Leath, banjo master Harry Reser, and harp-zither player Mme. Kitty Berger. We also hear from the bands of Boyd Raeburn, Tex Beneke, Jack Payne, Tommy Gott, Nathan Glantz, and more.
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Shellac Stack No. 251 jingles bells and decks the halls with some Christmas favorites and obscurities of the 1910s-1950s. We hear from the Victor Salon Orchestra, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Billy Mayerl, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, and many more in this festive, tuneful hour. Grab a mug of hot chocolate and join us!
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Shellac Stack No. 250 pitches up a boogie with the Nat King Cole Trio and plays Geography with Jan Savitt. We hear from the Mound City Blue Blowers, Billy Murray, Betty Hutton, Seger Ellis, Dolly Dawn, Fred Rich’s Hotel Astor Orchestra, Ben Selvin, the Southern Jazz Group, and many more. Thank you for supporting the Shellac Stack on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 249 revels in seventh heaven with more than a dozen Banner records of the 1920s by Frank Leithner’s Orchestra, the California Ramblers, Lizzie Miles, Hal Kemp, the Pickard Family, Ben Pollack’s Orchestra, the Original Memphis Five, Ford Dabney’s Syncopated Orchestra, Mendello’s Five Gee-Gees, and many more! Thank you for supporting the Shellac Stack on Patreon.
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Shellac Stack No. 248 buttons up our overcoat with Tommy Gott’s orchestra. We hear from Roberto Firpo in Argentina, Johnny Wittwer in San Francisco, and Billy Cotton in London. Along the way we’ve got excellent jazz from Bob Wilber’s Wildcats and Joe Venuti, the music of Gershwin played by Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats, and a trio of pretty hot “dime store” dance records. More too! Thanks for your support on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 247 shimmies with the Dorsey Brothers! We hear from Turk Murphy’s Jazz Band, the Royal Hawaiian Serenaders, Helen Forrest, Shep Fields, Coon-Sanders, Frankie Marvin, Sam Lanin, the Drifters, and many more in this variety-packed musical hour. Thanks for keeping the Shellac Stack spinning with your contribution on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 246 gets caught in a wind storm with Jesse Stone and His Orchestra. We toddle along with Carl Fenton, burn up with the Wolverines, “do it” with Rudy Vallee, and lounge ‘neath Egyptian skies with Joseph Franklin. We also hear from Irish fiddlers Michael Coleman and Patrick J. Cawley, pianist Lee Sims, and Harry Roy’s band. More too! Thanks for supporting the Shellac Stack on Patreon: patreon.com/shellacstack
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Shellac Stack No. 245 creeps with Jelly Roll Morton and dances with a ghost. We hear from Fess Williams’s Royal Flush Orchestra, Vivian Ellis, the Rev. J. M. Gates, Josef Hofmann, Bert Lown, Zeke Manners and His Swing Billies, Hazel Scott, and many more in this spooky installment. Boo! Throw something into our virtual Trick-or-Treat jar here: patreon.com/shellacstack — thanks!
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