December 2008 Archives

Step into the Divaville Lounge on Sunday, December 28 from 2-6 pm as we celebrate the end of 2008 with a four-hour trip through musical history! A song for each year, from 1911 through 1965. We'll start with one of the earliest recordings of Irving Berlin's classic "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and work our way through ragtime, hot jazz, sweet jazz, crooners, big band, swing, bossa nova and more. All the great jazz and pop vocalists we play all year round on Divaville Lounge, in one great show. Tune in and say, it was a very good year....

Eartha Kitt died on Christmas Day, December 25 2008.

Eartha is a longtime favorite of Divaville Lounge, and we will do an extended tribute to her work on the January 4 program.

Farewell, Eartha.

Happy Holidays from Divaville Lounge! Step into the Lounge on Sunday, December 21 from 2-6 pm for a special four-hour program of holiday music, co-hosted by Georg! We'll hear Christmas classics, overlooked gems, and a swinging celebration of the first day of Hanukkah. Tune in for a holly-jolly-dreidel-riffic afternoon!

At the Divaville Lounge we're always interested in finding out about great overlooked music. That's why we're thrilled to link to several websites whose mission is to share little-known holiday music from years past.

These sites collect holiday music on vinyl, then digitize the songs and post them online for you and me to download. If you are concerned about music piracy, rest assured that they are all careful not to post any music which has ever been available on CD. They only share old songs which literally cannot be bought, making them a great place for guilt-free downloading.

These are the Divaville Lounge's favorite Christmas sharing sites:
FaLaLaLaLa
Ernie Not Bert
Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else

Check them out!

Step into the Divaville Lounge on Sunday, December 14 from 2-4 pm for our regularly scheduled program of great jazz and pop vocalists, big band and lounge/exotica.

Step into the Divaville Lounge on Sunday, December 7 as we celebrate Sarah's favorite male vocalist: Sammy Davis Jr! Sammy strived to be "America's Greatest Entertainer," and we'll hear him singing with some of the great arrangers of his time, doing comedy with the Rat Pack, and even dancing. Tune in for two great hours of Sammy!

Recommended books, movies and a video clip behind the cut: