HIT PARADE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

This year we will have some scheduled specials as follows:

Hit Parade Special Programs for 2007

These special programs will be aired towards the end of the respective months.

February

Harold "Scrappy" Lambert

March

Women vocalists

April

Dances, popular and odd, of the 1920’s

May

Ben Selvin & His Orchestras

June

Sam Lanin & His Orchestras

July

Rudy Vallée,

August

Russ Columbo, the Crooner

September

Ben Pollock & His Orchestra

October

Al Bowlly, more popular now then ever before

November

Annette Hanshaw, the Reluctant Star

December

Hit Parade Christmas Show

Websites for lovers of 20's & 30's Music

WFUV, Public Radio Fordham University, New York
This station produces the "Big Broadcast", a program similar to the Hit Parade. They maintain extensive archive files that you can download. You can listen to the live broadcast that commences at 8.00pm, Sunday evening, USA Eastern Time, approximately 11.00 am on Monday mornings in Canberra (Daylight savings add one hour)

WKCR, Public Radio Columbia University
This station also has live broadcasts over the web and specialises in Jazz. Of interest, is 24 hours of Louis Armstrong on his birthday, July 4. CYCLINDER PRESERVATION AND DIGITISATION PROJECT

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 6,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online.

On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.

Hot Dance and Vintage Jazz Some recordings and lots on info.

Red-Hot Jazz Archive Heaps of recordings to download

The 78 rpm record home page Lots of links relating to the care and collecting of old records.

Discussion Groups

Yahoo Group

australian-dance-bands@yahoogroups.com
"Denis King"
Denis king is the Moderator.
This is a group that discusses all aspects of Australian Dance Music and the members have a broad knowledge of the entire field. They are very helpful and you will learn al lot just reading the emails. This is not a tedious or heavily used site. you will receive about 6 emails per week unless something important is being discussed. There is much biography here and lots of interest to Hit Parade listeners.

Hit Parade of Yesterday email address


Send your requests and comments here:
hitparadeprogram@yahoo.com.au