I'm trying to come up with some CDs to burn for the baby we're expecting, so old jazz and blues:

Fats Waller - The Joint is Jumping (RCA Bluebird CD)
Raymond Scott
some swing collections
Carl Stalling
20s dance band music

...and the new Massive Attack record.                   

                     I've got Deke Dickerson in 3 Dimensions on my turntable (I just picked up an autographed copy when I saw him in Seattle).  I think my home CD player is empty right now.  Today, when I was driving guests of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival I got out some of my favorite CDs and ended up listening to Cab Calloway's Are You Hep to the Jive?, one CD each from my Count Basie Story and Lionel Hampton Story boxed sets, and a contemporary jazz CD that one of the artists riding with me just recorded.                   

                     Goldfrapp's "Felt Mountain"
Barenaked Ladies - "All Their Greatest Hits"
Eight to the Bar- "Hey  Sailor"
Jump, Little Children - "Vertigo"                   

                     Let's see...Dean Mora's first CD, "My Favorite Band".

(All I've got is a boom box, it holds one CD).                   

                     Since the TV has a pretty decent sound system, the DVD tray has "The Lavender Hill Mob," "Woody Herman, 1937 Transcription Recordings," "The Best of Ella Mae Morse," "North by Northwest," and the first disc of "Benny Goodman--1937-38 Airchecks."

I really ought to put those things away.                   

                     The radio im my room has "Alien Fashion Show" in it, and i had to give up the other one in the living room to my mom, but it had
Johnny Favourite-"Holiday Romance"
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy-"Americana Deluxe"
Indigo Swing-"All Aboard"
The Mavericks-"What a Crying Shame"
Swing Mix '99
The Atomic Fireballs-"Tourch This Place"

and the pickup has the Andrews Sisters new cd, but i cant remember its name.  An intersting note is that the guitarist for the Mavericks produced the Johnny Favourite cd, and played guitar on the track "Home to Mama."


   -Beecher                   

                     Ella Fitzgerald sings the best of the Duke Ellington songbook.                   

                     Martini Time -Reverend Horton Heat
Hoodoo Caminoes-Rev it Up
Best of Link Ray and his Raymen                   

                     

         
"I'd Like to Get To Know You"  Spanky and Our Gang

I'm glad to see that you are a fan of Spanky and Our Gang. A good friend of mine used to manage the group and I have met Spanky. She is a great lady that can still do a song justice. She was interviewed on a local station, KHUM in Ferndale, CA (home of "The Majestic"), and I learned a lot about her. Needless to say that I am a fan too!                   

                     Right now my cd player has:

Hot Club of Cowtown - Ghost Town
Django Reinhardt - Paris & London 1937 to 1948 (boxed set - don't remember what cd is in right now)
Joe Maphis - Fire On the Strings
Ray Price - The Essential Ray Price
Ronnie Self - Bop A Lena

And on ye ol' record player:

Les Paul & Mary Ford - Can't remember the exact name of the album, but it's all Hawaiian songs done with the Les Paul touch.                   

                     

Great choices, ItGirl-  but who's Joe Maphis?

Joe Maphis was a guitar player who was famous for playing smoking, lightening-fast, finger-picking guitar instrumentals.  Image fiddle break-downs on the guitar.

If you've ever seen/heard Deke Dickerson play Rockin Gypsy, that's a Joe Maphis tune.  Joe is one of his main inspirations.

In fact, Deke's double-necked guitar was based on Joe's custom-made double neck that Semie Mosley specially made for Joe.  Mosley made 2 - one for Joe & one for Larry Collins.  (Mosley invented the Mosrite guitar).

Deke's guitar was made in the late 50s by Terry MacArthur, who was an apprentice to Mosley.  He was 17 years old when he made the guitar in his high school wood shop. Terry's a phenominal luthier who still makes guitars today. 

Also, if you're familiar with The Collins Kids, Larry Collins was Joe's protege.  Larry & Joe appeared on a lot of those "Hayride" type shows in the 50s.

Joe Maphis was an exceptional guitar player, a real unsung hero of sorts.                   

                     

Thanks- I'll have to check him out!

Me too!