VA - NOSTALGIC THIRTIES - 8 Records: Johnny Maddox - The Thirties In Ragtime LP 57 w Edward R. Murrow & Fred W. Friendly - I Can Hear It Now....Vol. III 1919-1932 LP 50 w Enoch Light & The Light Brigade - Big Band Hits Of The 30's Vol. 2 LP 75 w The Longines Symphonette, The Singing Choraliers - The Nostagic 30's 2LP w VA - Original Recordings Of The 30's - Those Legendary Leading Men of Stage & Screen LP 73 w VA - PLAZA HOUSE presents The Greatest Hits Of The 30's LP 71 w VA - Sentimental Journey 30's 40's 2LP 72 w VA - THOSE WONDERFUL 30's The Stars Of Hollywood's Golden Era 2LP 74

 Keeping on with the decades theme this week we have some fine records.  The Sentimental Journey actually has the 40's mixed in but as I was keeping a green vinyl boxset from the late 30's documenting the Swing Music phenomenon for St. Patrick's day next week and also since the 30's and 40's tend to get mixed for some I think it should be said at any rate.  Also, since finding the one right above from 1919-1932 of news events just last week at Goodwill, we can call it a draw.  LOL  You get THEE best version of Judy Garland's Somewhere Over The Rainbow as well as the normal version from another record.  Going to quote part of the back cover on the runner up to using the 'Nostalgic 30's' tag on the Winrar file as "Those Wonderful 30's" seemed to match the 'Roaring 20's' I labeled last week:  

     If you were a Hollywood tycoon greeting the New Year at midnight of December 31, 1929, your celebration would surely have been less than totally enthusiastic.  Only two months earlier, the theatrical bible, Variety, had confirmed those frantic phone calls from your stock broker with a now immortal headline:  "WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG."  Somehow, putting it that way in the show biz phrase for a flop brought home with extra vividness the immense financial disaster that had struck America.  In Hollywood, empires were tottering.  And as though that wasn't enough, there were those troublesome "talkies" heralded by Al Jolson's brief but historic audible moments in 'The Jazz Singer."  Movie audiences had been enthralled immediately.  Bowing to the obvious box-office receipts, silent pictures in production were hastily scrapped or quickly revised to accommodate sound.

    Overnight a new age had dawned for Hollywood.  Old stars would flicker out--their voices unable to match their public personalities.  A frantic search developed for fresh faces and talents.  Responding to these challenges, Hollywood's comeback--in what would be later recognized as a golden era--owed much to the opulent musicals which burst upon the scene and transformed the industry.  If people could now talk, they could also sing.  Sound systems, originally scratchy and unreliable, were quickly improved and Hollywood was off and running.

     But to create musicals you need great songs.   Hollywood had nowhere to turn to but Tin Pan Alley, the creative heart of America's popular music.  In the years to come, many top composers like Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Porter and Arlen would heed the siren call of Hollywood and contribute significantly to the golden era.

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