I mean, why not? Metaphorically speaking, of course – air travel accounts for 4 percent of human-induced global warming.

Doris Day – "Let's Fly Away" (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-hsLcVBfqM&ab_channel=DorisDay-Topic

#TradPop #TMOTradPop #BigBand #Carefree #Easygoing #Feelgood #JazzPop

Music for grown-ups!

George Shearing & Carmen McRae – "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance" (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5HWtGaN0w&ab_channel=GeorgeShearing-Topic

#Jazz #jazzVocals #TradPop #TMOTradPop #TMOJazz #Music #NightMusic #TMOLounge #Lounge

Sammy Davis, Jr.'s finest hour? Certainly in the ballpark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6hph24OxKI

#TMOTradPop #TradPop #Music #Crooners

Gotta say, Gene Austin is probably my favourite old-time crooner. His delivery is so timeless and fluent; he avoids the sort of histrionics that dates many a singer who followed him.

"When Your Lover Has Gone" (Swan), 1931

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jGgDRe2ZlU&ab_channel=The78Prof

#TMOTradPop #music #crooner #TradPop

April Stevens' 1961 interpretation is making it perfectly clear what this 1922 Gershwin tune is all about!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o_Zr2p6Yxw

#TMOTradPop #TradPop #Music

Such a cool photo.

(Jimmy Crawford (left) and Frankie Laine, ca. 1947. Photography by William P. Gottlieb. Public domain)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Crawford_(drummer)#/media/File:Jimmy_Crawford_and_Frankie_Laine_(Gottlieb_13521).jpg

#music #jazz #tradPop #musicians

THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE. "I had the craaiziest dream last night"...

Artist: #DellaReese
Track: I Had the Craziest Dream
Album: Della by Starlight
Year: 1960
Cat: RCA Victor LSP-2204
#BPM59
Instr: #EasyListeningCombo

Orig. in "Springtime in the Rockies" (movie, 1942)

Composer: #HarryWarren
Lyrics: #MackGordon
Arr. and conductor: #GlennOsser

#TMOApproved #MusicRecs #RestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse #TMOTradPop #Lounge #TradPop

https://open.spotify.com/track/1VBghZmqZvn9K8B2dsIVaz?si=44048e9601ab47f4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B26uqFPgods

Too cool. Raspy little #trumpet solo in there as well.

You can't find a proper Lee/Barbour anthology out there yet, can you?

Artist: #PeggyLee #DaveBarbour
Track: I Can See It Your Way
Album: I Don't Know Enough About You / I Can See It Your Way
Year: 1946
Cat: Capitol Records 236
Country: US
#BPM90
Instr.: #SmallJazzCombo

Rec.: Dec 26, 1945 (886-3), L.A.
Written by: #InezJames #SidneyMiller

https://archive.org/details/78_i-can-see-it-your-way_peggy-lee-dave-barbour-and-his-orchestra-james-miller_gbia0018715a

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