Thursday, 8/12/10

by musicclipoftheday

my new mantra

Say ‘bye bye, bogeyman.’

—Whispering Jack Smith

Whispering Jack Smith, “Happy Days” (Happy Days [shot in 1929, released in 1930])

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lagniappe

more music to chase away the bogeyman

Sidney Bechet (clarinet, with Henry “Red” Allen, trumpet; J.C. Higginbotham, trombone; James Tolliver, piano; Wellman Braud, bass; J.C. Heard, drums), “Egyptian Fantasy” (1941)