Jumping at the barrelhouse
Excellent, inexpensive collection of early West Coast - California - rhythm and blues music.
Professor Alex Bradford
Alex Bradford one of the early black gospel singers and pianists that any rhythm and blues fans might enjoy.
Who Is This America?
Highly political, Fela Kuti influenced Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra's CD Who is this America?
Jack Teagarden's vocals
Jack Teagarden was one of jazz's most gifted singers as well as one of the finest trombonists of the 20th century.
Shout Sister Shout: Sister Rosetta Tharpe!
Just bought a copy of Proper's Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Original Soul Sister
The Swan Silvertones & melisma
The Swan Silvertones get my vote as one of the finest vocal harmony groups of all time religious or secular.
Annette Hanshaw: lovable, sweet, hot
Annette Hanshaw, one of America's forgotten great singers from the early days of recorded music.
Ethel Waters: she really was incomparable
Ethel Waters is America's most neglected jazz, blues, pop singer.
They Can't Take These Connie Boswell Songs Away From Me
Two disc CD collection the singing of Connie aka Connee Boswell.
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Really, Yoseph I'm sorry if I make you lush
Bought a couple of CDs by Luke Vibert who also produces music as Wagon Christ.
Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions
Bought a collection of British made recordings of Fred Astaire's singin from the 30s and 70s.
Collected Boswell Sisters
Connee and the Boswell Sisters were the finest vocal harmony group in musical history. The release of five volumes collecting their singing is a joy to hear.
Moon Mullican
Moon Mullican: call it rockabilly, hillbilly boogie. A wonderful mix of honky tonky and proto rock and roll.
Spend a lazy afternoon with Regina Belle
Regina Belle's vocals on Lazy Afternoon show good taste, a gift for pop and jazz singing.
Make All Music Guide easier to use
Fix All Music Guide links and artist discography and biography sections, make the website easier to read and browse.
Forgotten gay writers, musicians, artists?
Rediscovering, recovering gay novelists, poets, musicians, artists, painters, photographers who've been forgotten by later generationf of queer men.
Sam Cooke kept moving on
Sam Cooke, my overcomplicated response from his shift from gospel melisma to commercial product produced by Hugo and Luigi
Digitizing thousands of CDs
Browsing through my physical compact discs beats digitizing my CDs and not being able to see them.
Lullaby Of Broadway: The Best Of Busby Berkeley At Warner Bros.
Wonderful anthology CD set of Harry Warren's songs for Busby Berkeley's musical comedies
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Judy Garland Retrospective
Trying to evaluate Judy Garland as a pop singer and select a CD or CDs to own
Rhumboogie with the Andrews Sisters
Comparison, evaluation of Andrews Sisters CD compliations, anthologies available
Lavay Smith's retro swing
Wish I could say I was excited by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
Discovering electronic music
My discovery of electronic music: trance, trip-hop, techno, dance, synth-pop
Andy Williams: Moon River & other great movie themes
Pop vocalist, popular singer Andy Williams was someone I enjoyed as a little boy
Rosemary Clooney: From Bing to Billie
Rosemary Clooney Sings Bing Crosby and Tribute to Billie Holiday pop vocal two-for-one reissue
Suzanne Pittson: Resolution
Listening to Suzanne Pittson's Resolution: A Remembrance of John Coltrane for the first time
Pointer Sisters don't fire me up
Tried listening to the female vocal soul group Pointer Sisters Fire, not my kind of R&B music
How Long Has This Been Going On
Just got a copy of Sarah Vaughan's How Long Has This Been Going On - Pablo
Happier with Winamp than WMP or iTunes
Decided that I like Winamp better than Windows Media Player or iTunes
iTunes no better than WMP for playing CDs
For playing compact discs Windows Media Player and iTunes seem equal.
Saint Judy: is there a good Garland CD?
I've never liked Judy Garland's singing or her weird facial expressions.
Swinging vocal harmony: Boswell Sisters, Ravens, Flamingos
The Ravens, Flamingos, Boswell Sisters are the best of hot and swinging vocal harmony groups.
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Dare to love: Jimmy Somerville
Jimmy Somerville was always aware of the age of consent laws: Dare to love with the man sitting in jail because his male lover was younger
Listening to Barry White
Barry White's All-Time Greatest Hits. His music was popular in gay bars back in the 70s.
What is sexy music?
In an amorous mood I wonder what is sexy music. Erotic jazz singing, funky R&B, June Christy, Anita O'Day, Prince Rogers Nelson.
Fucking Marc Almond (virtually)
Marc Almond's dark gay sexuality, Jimmy Somerville's falsetto, Pet Shop Boys: fucking a tangerine, candy boy with his smeared makeup.
I sat me down to write a simple story
Procol Harum, A Salty Dog, Pilgrim's Progress Keith Reed's lyrics, Atlanta, Savannah.
We are stardust, we are golden
Crosby Stills Nash Young Déjà Vu Deja idealistic album of my youth when I did cut my hair.
Hey Babe, take a walk on the wild side
Lou Reed's Transformer, boys in make-up, drag queens, pretty boys, 1972.
Aaliyah?’s I Care 4 U
Aaliyah?’s, I Care 4 U, she'd have made a pretty boy; so goes the silly mysteries of sexual beauty?
