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Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: February 18, 2015

On this week’s show nodded gracefully towards the upcoming Oscar ceremonies as our musical selections songs and scores that were both nominees and winners of that naked manful handful.

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  1. The Academy Award winning song “The Way You Look Tonight,” written by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields for the 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie: Swing Time, recorded in 1936 by Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee Crosby accompanied by Victor Young & His Orchestra and found on the Bingling Box Set: Bing Crosby – Easy to Remember.

  2. “Thanks for the Memory,” the song that later became Bob Hope’s theme song for this radio and TV shows, was originally composed By Ralph Rainger and Leo Rubin for the 1938 movie: The Big Broadcast of 1938, for which it won the Academy Award. This version was sung by Hope and Crosby’s frequent Road pictures partner Dorothy Lamour and appears on her antic anthology: Queen of the Hollywood Islands.

  3. “Cheek to Cheek,” the Irving Berlin classic was introduced by Fred Astaire in the1935 movie: Top Hat, was nominated for Academy Award, and appears on the elder album: Fred Astaire – The Great American Songbook.

  4. “Ole Buttermilk Sky” was composed by Jeff Brooks and Hoagy Carmichael for the 1946 western starring Dana Andrews and Susan Hayward titled: Canyon Passage and was nominated for an Academy Award. It was recorded in 1946 by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, featuring a very young Mike Douglas and The Campus Kids on Vocals, taken from the academical album: Kay Kyser – Best of the Big Bands.

  5. George & Ira Gershwin’s “They Can't Take That Away From Me,” which was nominated for an Academy Award after appearing in the 1937 movie Shall We Dance, waxed in 1956 for the lapidarial LP: The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow, featuring Eddie Costa on Piano and Vinnie Burke on Bass.

  6. “The Man That Got Away,” composed in 1953 by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin for the 1954 movie: A Star Is Born, which was nominated for an Academy Award, sung by Rosemary Clooney on her 1964 album: Thanks for Nothing, arranged and conducted by Bob Thompson, which was her last full-length LP project until she began recording again for Concord Records in 1977.

  7. “Swinging on a Star” was written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke and won the Academy Award after it was sung by Bing Crosby in the 1944 movie: Going My Way, and was performed here by Manny Albam & His Orchestra for the 1955 liberational LP: The Jazz Workshop, featuring Sol Schlinger on Baritone Sax, Joe Newman on Trumpet and Bob Brookmeyer nn Valve Trombone, with Milt Hinton on Bass and Osie Johnson on Drums.

  8. Academy Award nominee “That Old Black Magic,” which was written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the 1942 movie: Star Spangled Rhythm, waxed in 1958 by Louis Prima and Keely Smith, found on the rigorous retrospective: Louis Prima – Complete Collectors Series.

  9. The Academy Award winning song “Secret Love,” composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster for the 1953 movie: Calamity Jane, where it was introduced by Doris Day, sung here in 1964 by Barbara McNair by her vital LP: The Livin’ End.

  10. “How About You?” written by Burton Lane and Ralph Freed for the 1941 Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney movie: Babes on Broadway, which was nominated for an Academy Award, taken from the 1957 tour de force: How About Uke – Lyle Ritz Plays Jazz Ukulele, including Red Mitchell on Bass and Gene Estes on Drums.

  11. Another Oscar-nominated song, “This Time the Dream's on Me,” written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the 1941 movie: Blues in the Night, derived from the 1960 laryingistical LP: Tony Bennett Sings a String of Harold Arlen.

  12. “I've Got You Under My Skin,” the Academy Award nominee by Cole Porter from the 1936 MGM movie musical: Born to Dance, appearing on the 1998 scintillacious CD: Sinatraland by Patrick Williams and His Big Band, featuring Tom Scott on Tenor Sax and Chuck Berghofer on Bass.

  13. “The Superman Theme,” the Oscar-nominated score composed by John Williams for the 1978 movie, performed in an entirely a cappella version by Petra Haden on her concentrically eccentric CD: Petra Goes to the Movies.

  14. The eternal Academy Award winning song “Over the Rainbow” by Harold Arlen and E.Y. “Yip” Yarbug for the 1939 movie: Wizard of Oz, recorded in 1953 and included on the centurian CD: Art Tatum – Centennial Celebration.

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