Some of you might know, other might not, I have a weak spot for old 78 vinyl records as well as old dance hall, big bands and vaudeville recordings...

Looking for a specific song (the first recorded version of Aan De Amsterdamse Grachten, a very melancholic Dutch tune from 1956) I found a few sites that I already bookmarked for future reference.

The next site I want to share with you is GREAT! The Dutch owner not only did everything in English, but the recordings he put online are LOVELY.

His collection covers loads of Dutch stuff, but also some vaudeville artists, like Mea West and Zarah Leander, but also big band toppers, like Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Bix Beiderbecke and Glenn Miller.

I love this site! GO listen! And if you wanna save them... I lift them from my temporary Internet Files folder.

http://www.78rpm.hovers.n...erenE7.htm

Damn, He's even got Tweety & Sylvester's I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat

This is grrreat!

And WITH info;

Mel Blanc - Vocal, with Music by Billy May - Capitol CAP.6170-1D-1 - CL.13407

click here to listenMel BlancRecorded June 29, 1950. Born Melvin Jerome Blank on May 30, 1908, in San Francisco, Mel Blanc was the famed voice of popular and beloved animated cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Pie, Sylvester and many others. Known as "The Man of 1,000 Voices", Blanc's voice, as these cartoon characters, became instantly recognisable to generations of children, starting from the golden era of Merrie Melodies cartoons by Warner Bros. He began his career in show business as a musician and radio performer in 1927, when he sang and performed on a Portland radio show called "The Hoot Owls". His first Warner Bros. character was a drunken bull in the 1937 Looney Tunes short, Picador Porky. As legend has it, the actor playing Porky Pig in that short actually did stutter. A few months later, Mel took over the role, stuttering intact, and created Daffy Duck at the same time. His final cartoon contribution came with 1988's popular animation/live action film "Who framed Roger Rabbit?" in which he did all his famous cartoon characters for the last time. He died in 1989 in Los Angeles. Sylvester and TweetyOn this recording, which features Blanc in a duet as the little yellow bird Tweetie Pie and Sylvester the Cat, he is accompanied by none less than Billy May and his band. On this same session the band also recorded with Fanny Brice/Baby Snooks.
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