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Kiddie Records Weekly Launched in 2005 as a one year project dedicated to celebrating the golden age of children's records. This period roughly spanned from the mid forties through the early fifties and produced a wealth of all-time classics. Over time these forgotten treasures slipped off the radar and it has become our mission to give them a new lease on life by sharing them with today's generation of online listeners. |
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Basic Hip Digital Gold This is the mother lode of all downloading blogs and websites! Exotica, moog, TV and movie soundtracks, the "now sound", spies and privates, pop instrumentals and oddities, all from the fifties and sixties. Over 500 albums encoded to archive quality (320kbps) MP3 format An incredible selection that you won't find anywhere else. |
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The Online Guide to Whistling Records (Currently Closed) Here you'll find over 100 MP3s from whistlers around the world, many of which date back some eighty years! Highlights include sections on Fred Lowery (The Blind Whistler) and Brother Bones, who recorded one of the most instantly recognizable songs of the 20th century, "Sweet Georgia Brown," adopted by the Harlem Globetrotters as their official theme song. Enter |
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The official broadcast of the Space Age Pop Music website, the internet's most comprehensive guide to exotica, lounge, cocktail, incredibly strange, easy listening and other cool music...and the people who created it. |
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The Great American Music Machine In the fall of 2005, we joined the Luxuria Music team for a ten month run that produced 17 programs. We mixed up a blend of jazz, soundtracks, easy listening, pop vocals, country, incredibly strange music and tossed in some old favorites too. |
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Secret Agent Man Radio Before we put together Space Age Pop Music on Live365, we laid down this mix of gritty crime jazz and groovy spy tunes along with some funky blaxploitation soundtracks. Some of you may also remember The Time Tunnel, which was based on the music of movies and television. Unfortunately, those audio files were lost but we did dig up 29 audio captures from 1960's television commercials we used on that broadcast. Program 01 | Program 02 | Program 03 | Program 04 | Program 05 |
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Tony Schwartz Documenting life in sound and pictures is something Tony Schwartz has been doing since 1945, when he bought his first Webcor wire recorder and roamed the streets of Manhattan recording the people and everyday sounds around him. Click here to purchase recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways website. Sounds of My City is a fascinating collage of snippets from most of Tony's recordings and include some rare limited editions. Over an hour and a half in all! |
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Kenyon Hopkins One of the most overlooked composers of the fifties and sixties, Kenyon Hopkins truly is one of the unsung heroes of his time. Despite an impressive discography which includes his popular Shock Music trilogy, Esquire Sound Tour albums and several excellent soundtracks, including The Hustler, only his score to the sizzling 1956 Elia Kazan film, Baby Doll, has been reissued on compact disc. The Best of Kenyon Hopkins is a chronological presentation of this gifted composer's body of work compiled from 31 different recordings. |
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Franklyn MacCormack For close to forty years, this legendary radio personality filled the air for Chicago's night crowd with his quiet blend of soft music and nostalgic poetry. The story goes he died while on the air. Seriously out dated stuff, but we love him dearly. Thank you, Mr. Fodder, for your contributions. The Old Book of Memories is a collection of the many recordings made by Franklyn MacCormack during his distinguished career. The Torch Hour is an actual segment from his late night WGN Radio broadcast. Vagabond House is the recital of two of Don Blanding's immortal classics. |
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Patience and Prudence We still get occasional requests for our pages on these sisters, daughters of orchestra leader Mark McIntyre. Two recent movies, Ghost World and Election, used Patience and Prudence songs, exposing them to a whole new audience. When we learned that Collector's Choice had reissued Patience and Prudence on CD, that marked the end of one of our most popular features, Sorry, we have no audio for you other than this little eight minute sampler to whet your appetite. Note: CD is now out of print. |
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A large collection of photos of this classic toy. Up close shots of dozens of models with their original packaging. |
Before and after images of various San Francisco locations used in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece. |
Basic Hip Digital Oddio 2012
