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1948 Part Two – Move

In part one we saw how tape technology was transforming the sound of the world in 1948. In part two we’ll take a cue from another new development – the long playing record. When I first heard that the LP had been less than twenty years old when Sgt Pepper was released – or just eleven years old when Kind of Blue was released, it seemed hard to believe. I was so accustomed to thinking of music as naturally fitting in this format – two sides of around 20-25 minutes each. But until now, nobody was experiencing music like that. There were “albums” it’s true – there had been since the Edwardian age – but these were “albums” in the “photo album” sense. Booklets of perhaps eight double-sided shellac discs, with sides numbered under the assumption that they would be played as a stack on top of a record player (side one matched with side eight maybe.) These cumbersome things were meant for classical music, and not anything as disposable as jazz. But jazz was one step ahead already. By now of course we have this wave of Be Bop artists, often playing improvised music for hours on end, also very much unsuited to a short side of shellac.

Columbia’s new long playing discs (and RCA Victor’s new 7” singles) do not make up a substantial proportion of this mix, but where last time everything was a tape cut up, this time we’re more in the realm of the sometimes meandering, sometimes slow groove building world made possible by this new medium. This is less of a mix to pay attention to, and more a mix to sit back and enjoy. Which is the way forward? We’ll just have to see. The decade is almost over, we’ve come a long way, but there’s one last shock for us before we reach the heart of the century.

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Tracklist

Intro

(Clip from Naked City)
0:00:00 John Cage & Jay Gottlieb – Dream
(Clip from BBC Archive)
(Clip from Inner Sanctum)
(Clip from Truth or Consequences)
(Clip from Atomic Energy Is Your Business)
0:00:54 Brother Bones And His Shadows – Sweet Georgia Brown
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
0:03:51 Cold Storage Rhythm – Skokiaan
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
0:06:24 Blue Ridge Quartet – Hard Times Will Soon Be Over

Part One – Rock

(Clip from interview with Frank Sinatra)
0:09:02 Wynonie Harris – Good Rockin’ Tonight
(Clip from interview with Frank Sinatra)
0:11:45 Bill Moore – We’re Gonna Rock
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
0:14:23 Jimmy Liggins – Cadillac Boogie
(Clip from This is Bing Crosby)
0:16:28 Wild Bill Moore – Rock and Roll
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
0:19:17 Amos Milburn – Chicken-Shack Boogie
(Clip from interview with Vera Hall)

Part Two – Move

0:21:23 Crown Price Waterford – Move Your Hand, Baby
(Clip from Spike Jones Show)
0:23:06 Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk – Misterioso
(Clip from Exploding Cigarettes Prank)
(Clip of Symphony Syd introducing Miles Davis Band)
0:27:26 Miles Davis – Move
0:30:36 Charlie Parker – Relaxin’ at the Camarillo
0:32:54 Hazel Scott – Love Will Find A Way
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)

Part Three – Mist

0:35:07 Pee Wee King – Bull Fiddle Boogie
(Clip from interview with Frank Sinatra)
0:37:43 Rip Ramsey – Wanderers Swing
(Clip from interview with Vera Hall)
(Clip from Bertrand Russell / Fr Frederick Copleston debate on existence of God)
0:40:24 Kenny Clarke – Algerian Cynicism
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
0:43:12 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra – Lady Of The Lavender Mist
0:46:27 Thelonious Monk – Evonce
(Clip of Helen Keller speaking)

Part Four – Size

(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
0:49:33 Nellie Lutcher – Fine Brown Frame
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
0:52:30 Julia Lee – King Size Papa
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
0:55:09 John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
0:58:03 Big Jay McNeeley’s Blue Jays – The Deacon’s Hop
(Clip from The Chicken of Tomorrow)
1:00:52 Joe Swift – That’s Your Last Boogie

Part Five – Twist

(Clip from interview with Vera Hall)
1:03:54 Dizzy Gillespie – Prince Albert
(Clip from The Treasure of The Sierra Madre)
1:08:43 Paul Williams Sextette – The Twister Pt. 1
1:10:08 Paul Williams Sextette – The Twister Pt. 2
(Clip from Believe It Or Not)
1:11:16 Tuareg Women of Adrar des Iforas – Air de Kel Ajjer (Rhythme Ellehelleh)
(Clip from Bertrand Russell / Fr Frederick Copleston debate on existence of God)
1:12:53 Pablo Casals – Manel Sarerra Puigferrer Dubte

Part Six – Run

(Clip of Edward R Murrow)
1:15:39 Louis Jordan – Run Joe
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
1:17:52 Machito and His Afro-Cuban Salseros – Asia Minor
1:19:50 Henry Salvador – Maladie D’amour
(Clip from Red River)
1:22:05 Nellie Lutcher and Her Rhythm – There’s Another Mule In Your Stall
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
1:24:53 Roy Brown – Mighty, Mighty Man

Part Seven – Rope

(Clip from Bicycle Thieves)
1:27:35 Howard McGhee Sextet with Milt Jackson – Merry Lee
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
1:29:43 Lonnie Johnson – Tomorrow Night
(Clip from Kraft Music Hall)
1:32:48 Charles Trenet – Une Noix
(Clip from Rope)
1:34:56 John Cage & Jay Gottlieb – Dream
1:37:23 The Trumpeteers – Milky White Way

Part Eight – Hate

(Clip from Bertrand Russell / Fr Frederick Copleston debate on existence of God)
1:39:34 The Pilgrim Travelers – I Want My Crown
(Clip from Drunken Angel)
1:42:48 Thelonious Monk – Suburban Eyes
(Clip from Key Largo)
1:45:54 Milt Jackson & Thelonious Monk – Epistrophy
(Clip from Key Largo)
(Clip from Spike Jones Show)
1:49:31 Pee Wee Crayton – Texas Hop
(Clip from Brighton Rock)
1:52:13 Victor Silvester – Golden Earrings
(Clip from Brighton Rock)

Part Nine – Love

1:54:39 The Orioles – It’s Too Soon To Know
(Clip from This Is Bing Crosby)
1:57:32 Paula Watson – A Little Bird Told Me
2:00:08 Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Little Boy, How Old Are You?
(Clip from interview with Vera Hall)
2:02:38 Ella Fitzgerald – Robbin’s Nest
(Clip from interview with Carmen Miranda)
2:05:55 Line Renaud – Etoile Des Neiges

Part Ten – Mirth

(Clip from Hamlet (Gielgud – BBC Radio))
2:08:46 Tadd Dameron Sextet – The Squirrel
(Clips from Hamlet (Olivier – Film))
2:12:48 Miles Davis – Budo (Hallucinations)
(Clip from Hamlet (Olivier – Film))
2:17:06 Sonny Thompson – Long Gone, Part 2
(Clip from Macbeth (Welles – Film))
2:19:59 Wynonie Harris – Blow Your Brains Out
(Clip from Macbeth (Welles – Film))
2:23:43 Charlie Parker – Embraceable You

Part Eleven – Stew

(Clip from The Jack Benny Program)
2:26:31 Hal Singer Sextette – Beef Stew
(Clip from The Spike Jones Show)
2:30:13 Camille Howard – X-Temperaneous Boogie
(Clip from The Jack Benny Program)
2:32:15 Erskine Hawkins – Corn Bread
(CLip from The Jack Benny Program)
2:34:33 Tommy Sargent – Steel Guitar Boogie
(Clip from The Original Amateur Hour)
2:37:31 Hazel Scott – Dancing On A Ceiling
(Clip from Germany Year Zero)

Ending

(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
(Clip from Calvacade of 1948)
2:40:25 Nat King Cole – Nature Boy
(Clip from Calvacade of 1948)
(Clip from The Phil Harris & Alice Faye Christmas Show)
2:43:05 Peggy Lee – Don’t Smoke In Bed
(Clip from BBC Archive)
(Clip from Top Tunes of 1948)
2:46:14 Russ Morgan – So Tired
(Clip from 1948 Year In Review)
(Clip from Germany Year Zero)