Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge 2-17-16 Oscars! - Tiki Music

DZ Dr. Zarkov Member Joined: Mar 07, 2008 Posts: 644	DZ Dr. Zarkov Posted posted on Wed, Feb 17, 2016 3:54 PM Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: February 17, 2016 On this week’s show we took a nod towards the upcoming Academy Awards by celebrating some of the music that has graced previous Oscar ceremonies as both nominees and winners of that naked manful handful. Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm Eastern Time (2-3 pm on the West Coast) at http://www.radiofairfax.org. The show is broadcast live; no recorded shows are archived, but some listeners choose to record it on their computers to listen later. Radio Fairfax also can be heard on Tune In Radio at tunein.com, and streamed on smartphones by downloading the Tunein app. It also can be streamed on Roku and Google TV at: http://tinyurl.com/3uqfsz9 The Academy Award winning song “Swinging on a Star” was composed by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen for the 1944 Bing Crosby movie: Going My Way, and is taken from Der Bingle’s Box Set: Bing Crosby – Easy to Remember, accompanied by John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra. “Sweet Leilani” also won the Oscar and was composed by Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra Leader Harry Owens for the 1937 Bing Crosby movie: Waikiki Wedding, and the version heard here was performed by the guitar wizard Les Paul and his wife, the singer Mary Ford on their 1959 ravenous recording: Lover's Luau. “The Way You Look Tonight,” won the Oscar for Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, who composed it for the 1936 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie: Swing Time, and is heard here in a 1949 recording by June Christy with Bob Cooper’s Orchestra, led by her husband and Tenor Sax player, with Johnny Mandel on Bass Trumpet, Buddy Childers on Trumpet, Hal Schaeffer on Piano, Art Pepper on Alto Sax, Irv Roth on Baritone Sax, Joe Mondragon on Bass, Luiz Martinez on Conga Drums and Don Lamond on Drums, appearing on Ms. Christy’s somnambulatory CD: Day Dreams. “They Can't Take That Away From Me,” inked by George & Ira Gershwin for the 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie: Shall We Dance was nominated for an Academy Award, and is heard here in a 1930s 78rpm recording by Fred Astaire found on his albumic assay: The Great American Songbook. Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin nabbed an Oscar nomination for “Long Ago and Far Away,” which they wrote for the 1944 Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth movie: Cover Girl, sung here by Johnny Hartman in 1958 and taken here from the CD version of his outstanding album: I Love Everybody, with the band arranged and conducted by Rudy Taylor. “Cheek to Cheek” was written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 Fred Astaire movie: Top Hat and was nominated for an Academy Award, and this rendering appears on the slapped-together CD: Oscar Peterson: Standards, with Mr. Peterson on Piano, Barney Kessel on Guitar and Ray Brown on Bass. The Oscar winner “Thanks for the Memory,” was penned by Ralph Rainger and Leo Rubin for the movie: The Big Broadcast of 1938, and is heard here in a 1963 performance by Dave Pell reflecting its later use as the theme for Bob Hope’s television series, drawn with swizzle sticks from the copious collection: TV Town – Prime-Time Tunes From the Tube/Ultra Lounge No. 13. “True Love” by Cole Porter was nominated for the Academy Award after appearing in the 1956 movie: High Society, where it was sung by Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly, and is vocalized here by The Puppini Sisters from their copacetic compact disc: Hollywood, with Marcella Puppini, Kate Mullins and Stephanie O’Brien on Vocals, Blake Wilner on Guitar, Jan Shenoy on Clarinet, Ben Cummings on Trumpet; Jon Stokes on Trombone, Henrik Jensen on Bass and Graham Fox on Drums and Percussion. The Oscar-winning theme from the 1962 George Pal Cinerama spectacular, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm composed by Bob Merrill was performed by Les Baxter on his 1963 lavish LP: The Academy Award Winners. The Oscar winner “Secret Love” was composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster for the 1953 movie musical: Calamity Jane, where it was sung by Doris Day. It was heard here on the 1958 labial LP by trumpeter Jonah Jones called Swingin’ at the Cinema, with George Rhodes on Piano, John Brown on Bass and Harold Austin on Drums. “Pennies From Heaven” by Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke was nominated for an Academy Award after Bing Crosby sung it in the 1936 movie of the same name. This performance is from a 1957 recording by Sarah Vaughan, found on her righteous retrospective: Swingin’ Easy, with Jimmy Jones on Piano; Richard Davis on Bass and Roy Haynes on Drums. “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” was composed by Cole Porter for the 1936 MGM movie musical: Born to Dance and was nominated for an Oscar. This version by the famed jazz pianist is heard on his 1953 lapidarial LP: The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two, with George Duvivier on Bass, and Arthur Taylor on Drums. “That Old Black Magic” by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, was nominated for an Academy Award after its appearance in the 1942 movie: Star Spangled Rhythm, heard here on the anthemic anthology: Yes, I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, Disc One. Also by Cole Porter, “You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To” was nominated for an Oscar when it appeared in the 1943 movie Something to Shout About, and was later used in the 1987 Woody Allen movie: Radio Days. We heard Anita O’Day’s version from her outlandish LP: Live in Tokyo ’63. “The Trolley Song,” written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, also was nominated for an Academy Award after it was warbled by Judy Garland in the 1944 movie: Meet Me in St. Louis, came from the 1959 labial LP: Buddy Collette and Swinging Shepherds at the Movies, with Collette, Bud Shank and Paul Horn on Flute, Alto Flute & Piccolo, Harry Klee on Flute, Alto Flute & Bass Flute, Bill Miller on Piano, Jim Hall on Electric Guitar, Red Mitchell on Bass and Earl Palmer on Drums. “Cinema Paradiso,” the theme song from the 1988 foreign language Oscar-winning film of the same name composed by Andrea and Ennio Morricone, is performed entirely a capella by Petra Haden alone on her amazing album: Petra Goes to the Movies. “It's Magic,” written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn and nominated for an Academy Award after its appearance in the Doris Day 1948 debut in the movie: Romance on the High Seas, performed by Eric Dolphy on Blass Clarinet on his 1960 luscious LP: Far Cry, with Booker Little on Trumpet; Jaki Byard on Piano; Ron Carter on Bass and Roy Haynes on Drums.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: February 17, 2016

On this week’s show we took a nod towards the upcoming Academy Awards by celebrating some of the music that has graced previous Oscar ceremonies as both nominees and winners of that naked manful handful.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm Eastern Time (2-3 pm on the West Coast) at http://www.radiofairfax.org. The show is broadcast live; no recorded shows are archived, but some listeners choose to record it on their computers to listen later. Radio Fairfax also can be heard on Tune In Radio at tunein.com, and streamed on smartphones by downloading the Tunein app. It also can be streamed on Roku and Google TV at: http://tinyurl.com/3uqfsz9

The Academy Award winning song “Swinging on a Star” was composed by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen for the 1944 Bing Crosby movie: Going My Way, and is taken from Der Bingle’s Box Set: Bing Crosby – Easy to Remember, accompanied by John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra.
“Sweet Leilani” also won the Oscar and was composed by Royal Hawaiian Hotel Orchestra Leader Harry Owens for the 1937 Bing Crosby movie: Waikiki Wedding, and the version heard here was performed by the guitar wizard Les Paul and his wife, the singer Mary Ford on their 1959 ravenous recording: Lover's Luau.
“The Way You Look Tonight,” won the Oscar for Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, who composed it for the 1936 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie: Swing Time, and is heard here in a 1949 recording by June Christy with Bob Cooper’s Orchestra, led by her husband and Tenor Sax player, with Johnny Mandel on Bass Trumpet, Buddy Childers on Trumpet, Hal Schaeffer on Piano, Art Pepper on Alto Sax, Irv Roth on Baritone Sax, Joe Mondragon on Bass, Luiz Martinez on Conga Drums and Don Lamond on Drums, appearing on Ms. Christy’s somnambulatory CD: Day Dreams.
“They Can't Take That Away From Me,” inked by George & Ira Gershwin for the 1937 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie: Shall We Dance was nominated for an Academy Award, and is heard here in a 1930s 78rpm recording by Fred Astaire found on his albumic assay: The Great American Songbook.
Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin nabbed an Oscar nomination for “Long Ago and Far Away,” which they wrote for the 1944 Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth movie: Cover Girl, sung here by Johnny Hartman in 1958 and taken here from the CD version of his outstanding album: I Love Everybody, with the band arranged and conducted by Rudy Taylor.
“Cheek to Cheek” was written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 Fred Astaire movie: Top Hat and was nominated for an Academy Award, and this rendering appears on the slapped-together CD: Oscar Peterson: Standards, with Mr. Peterson on Piano, Barney Kessel on Guitar and Ray Brown on Bass.
The Oscar winner “Thanks for the Memory,” was penned by Ralph Rainger and Leo Rubin for the movie: The Big Broadcast of 1938, and is heard here in a 1963 performance by Dave Pell reflecting its later use as the theme for Bob Hope’s television series, drawn with swizzle sticks from the copious collection: TV Town – Prime-Time Tunes From the Tube/Ultra Lounge No. 13.
“True Love” by Cole Porter was nominated for the Academy Award after appearing in the 1956 movie: High Society, where it was sung by Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly, and is vocalized here by The Puppini Sisters from their copacetic compact disc: Hollywood, with Marcella Puppini, Kate Mullins and Stephanie O’Brien on Vocals, Blake Wilner on Guitar, Jan Shenoy on Clarinet, Ben Cummings on Trumpet; Jon Stokes on Trombone, Henrik Jensen on Bass and Graham Fox on Drums and Percussion.
The Oscar-winning theme from the 1962 George Pal Cinerama spectacular, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm composed by Bob Merrill was performed by Les Baxter on his 1963 lavish LP: The Academy Award Winners.
The Oscar winner “Secret Love” was composed by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster for the 1953 movie musical: Calamity Jane, where it was sung by Doris Day. It was heard here on the 1958 labial LP by trumpeter Jonah Jones called Swingin’ at the Cinema, with George Rhodes on Piano, John Brown on Bass and Harold Austin on Drums.
“Pennies From Heaven” by Arthur Johnston and Johnny Burke was nominated for an Academy Award after Bing Crosby sung it in the 1936 movie of the same name. This performance is from a 1957 recording by Sarah Vaughan, found on her righteous retrospective: Swingin’ Easy, with Jimmy Jones on Piano; Richard Davis on Bass and Roy Haynes on Drums.
“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” was composed by Cole Porter for the 1936 MGM movie musical: Born to Dance and was nominated for an Oscar. This version by the famed jazz pianist is heard on his 1953 lapidarial LP: The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two, with George Duvivier on Bass, and Arthur Taylor on Drums.
“That Old Black Magic” by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, was nominated for an Academy Award after its appearance in the 1942 movie: Star Spangled Rhythm, heard here on the anthemic anthology: Yes, I Can! The Sammy Davis Jr. Story, Disc One.
Also by Cole Porter, “You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To” was nominated for an Oscar when it appeared in the 1943 movie Something to Shout About, and was later used in the 1987 Woody Allen movie: Radio Days. We heard Anita O’Day’s version from her outlandish LP: Live in Tokyo ’63.
“The Trolley Song,” written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, also was nominated for an Academy Award after it was warbled by Judy Garland in the 1944 movie: Meet Me in St. Louis, came from the 1959 labial LP: Buddy Collette and Swinging Shepherds at the Movies, with Collette, Bud Shank and Paul Horn on Flute, Alto Flute & Piccolo, Harry Klee on Flute, Alto Flute & Bass Flute, Bill Miller on Piano, Jim Hall on Electric Guitar, Red Mitchell on Bass and Earl Palmer on Drums.
“Cinema Paradiso,” the theme song from the 1988 foreign language Oscar-winning film of the same name composed by Andrea and Ennio Morricone, is performed entirely a capella by Petra Haden alone on her amazing album: Petra Goes to the Movies.
“It's Magic,” written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn and nominated for an Academy Award after its appearance in the Doris Day 1948 debut in the movie: Romance on the High Seas, performed by Eric Dolphy on Blass Clarinet on his 1960 luscious LP: Far Cry, with Booker Little on Trumpet; Jaki Byard on Piano; Ron Carter on Bass and Roy Haynes on Drums.