Julius La Rosa — Jan 2, 1930 — May 12, 2016

We love him. We miss him

USAF Band – WWII Holiday Flashback

https://youtube.com/watch?v=khQN5ylb3H0%3Frel%3D0

Thanks to Bob Gibson for submitting the above clip

“Every time a bell rings . . . “

 

Julius La Rosa – A Christmas Gift

Julius La Rosa – A Christmas Medley

Billie Holiday “Summertime” 1936     (2:55)

Benny Goodman Stompin’ At The Savoy  1936  (3:09)

 Here Comes Louis

Louis Armstrong “Falling In Love With You.”  1935  (3:11)

Bunny Berigan “I Can’t Get Started.” 1937 (4:40)

Timme Rosenkrantz And His Barrelhouse Barons – A Wee Bit Of Swing” 1938 (2:33)

Cuts from the album pictured below were played on Timme’s WNEW show on February 1, 1945.

Erroll Garner  1944 (3:07)

Tyree Glenn “Mood Indigo” (4.44)

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WNEW -ID In The Style of Count Basie

 My Last Affair – Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra    2:45

I’m Walking Through Heaven With You – Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra    3:19

 

 

Adam Gopnik, writing for The New Yorker Culture Desk:

For decades, there was a special connection between Sinatra’s music and what is now called “terrestrial radio.” A curious extravagance of disk jockeys spent entire careers spinning Sinatra records—partly because there were so many recordings and so many of them so good, partly because the range of emotion was sufficiently large that a single hour could pass from upbeat to deeply melancholy and still remain consistent in quality, and perhaps mostly because there was something . . . epic about every Sinatra take. Many of these radio personalities, like William B. Williams of WNEW-AM, who first called Sinatra “Chairman of the Board,” died long ago. Others have slipped on into silence. And, some, such as Mark Sudock, who has a fine scholarly program on the Internet radio station Metromedia, have emerged more recently. But some of the Sinatra standbys stayed on for a long time after the singer’s death, in 1998. Herewith, a brief summary of the twilight of Sinatra radio, and a quick salute to a couple of the hardier cases.  (To read the rest of the story, click on the link below.)

The New Yorker: One More Spin Of Frank Sinatra