Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

I want to listen to fun, old music :)

I like a lot of random old stuff I hear, but I have no clue on artist names, what to search for etc ever.. genres aren't that important, as the best stuff from any genre usually is quite cool; and since I really haven't listened enough to anything, I have no clue to what I like.

Either way, presumably, the copyrights have expired, so there should be plenty of legal stuff to download, but I can't bloody find anything :( (even using less legal means).

Please somebody help broaden my cultural horizon and point to me legimitate site/torrents and/or just recommend artists. No need for it to be 30' or 40' though, anything classifiable as 'really old' from the perspective of an ignorant idiot goes.

Re: Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

I've been listening to quite a lot of Big Band music like Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman and the Andrews Sisters lately.

Re: Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

Vera Lynn

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Ella fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Glen Miller, Bing Crosby

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Carl Orff wrote Carmina Burana in the 30s and thats pretty cool.

Re: Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

thanks a bunch!

Listening to Benny Goodman, Flat Foot Floogee now. Fun as hell :)

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You would probably consider this one a bit off-topic but i feel its good enough for a recommendation.

Listen to Jurassic 5 - Swing Set

Its not oldie music as such but its an old school hip-hop track that uses a lot of sampling from the era.

Re: Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

Swing Set is a pretty good song actually. It was one of the songs that inspired me to get a load of swing music.

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I too am looking for some Sinatra/Cosby/King Cole/etc type stuff to listen to, preferably the classical hits but don't really know what to look for

Re: Help Me! .. Music30'ies, 40'ies etc
 

Why not just download/buy the respective "Best Ofs"?

edit: The Ink Spots are quite a good band (the music from Fallout 1 is by them)

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The Chris Columbo Quintet
Jimmy Smith
Dinah Washington
Fats Waller
The Nu-Trons
Robert Parker

so on and so forth :)

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There is nobody better than Django Reinhardt.