3.02 May 07 : The Lenderman Wedding Reception

Illustration stolen from Colleen Coover over at comicartcollective.com

So, yeah, this is May's edition of the music club. And yeah, it's almost the middle of June. But, that's just how we roll around here. We're in possession of the anti-magazine dating system. You'll learn to live with it. This month has a theme: (mostly) Pre-War jazz.* Smooth stylings for the guests of the Lenderman Wedding reception. Knock back a few flutes of champagne, eat some wedding cake and clink your fork against your glasses to get the newlyweds to kiss:

01. Boswell Sisters - When I Take My Sugar To Tea
02. Casa Loma Orchestra - China Girl
03. Johnny Hodges - Alabamy Home
04. Jack Teagarden - Diga Diga Doo
05. Fletcher Henderson - Happy Feet
06. Dinah Washington - The Man I Love
07. Duke Ellington - Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie
08. Carolina Cotton Pickers - Western (Moten) Swing
09. Walter Page's Blue Devils - Blue Devil Blues
10. McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Plain Dirt
11. Ella Fitzgerald - Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
12. Chu Berry - Maelstrom
13. Boswell Sisters - Shine On Harvest Moon
14. Casa Loma Orchestra - Blue Prelude
15. Hot Lips Page - Old Man Ben
16. Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean A Thing
17. Fletcher Henderson - Sugar Foot Stomp
18. Dinah Washington - I Love You Yes I Do
19. Celestin's Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra - It's Jam Up
20. Monk Hazel & His Orchestra - Ideas
21. McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Miss Hannah
22. Original Yellow Jackets - Swinging At The Chat And Chew
23. Ella Fitzgerald - Rock It For Me

* I always found the label "Pre-War" to be a little funky and more than a little vain. What do you expect from the "greatest generation." On the 'mostly' tip, it's possible that the Dinah Washington and Hot Lips Page tunes are not, in fact, Pre-War, but I couldn't be bothered with scholarship this early into my son's summer vacation.