One of the 1920s novelty numbers heard on RadioLulu - Marion Harris singing "I'm A Jazz Vampire." Check it out as well as many others at www.live365.com/stations/radiolulu
RadioLulu is a Louise Brooks-inspired, silent film-themed station streaming music of the 1920s, 1930s, and today.
Launched in 2002, this unique station features music from six of Brooks' films - the haunting themes from
Beggars of Life (1928) and
Prix de Beaute (1930), as well as musical passages from
The Canary Murder Case (1929),
Empty Saddles (1936), and
Overland Stage Raiders
(1938). Other vintage tracks associated with the actress include
"Somebody Loves Me" (Brooks' favorite Gershwin tune) and Xavier Cugat's
"Siboney" (recommended by Brooks in her booklet "The Fundamentals of
Ballroom Dancing"). There are also recordings by actors and actress who appeared in films with Brooks -
Blanche Ring, W.C. Fields, Adolphe Menjou, Noah Beery, Kurt Geron, Siegfried Arno, Joan Blondell, Frank Fay, Grace Moore, and Cary Grant. There arer even vintage tracks by Sid Kay's Fellows, the German jazz combo who appear in
Pandora's Box.
There are vintage recordings songs by Brooks' friends and acquaintances - like Charlie Chaplin, Libby Holman, and Bruz Fletcher. Also
featured are rare recordings by other early Hollywood figures,
including Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro, Gloria Swanson, Joan
Crawford, Bebe Daniels, Lupe Velez, Buddy Rogers, Jean Harlow, Dolores
Del Rio, Dick Powell, Tallulah Bankhead, and Dorothy Lamour. Janet
Gaynor and Charles Farrell can be heard singing "If I Had A Talking
Picture Of You," one of a number of movie related songs on RadioLulu. Have you ever heard "Take Your Girlie to the Movies," "At the Moving Picture
Ball," and "Those Charlie Chaplin Feet" ? You can on
RadioLulu.
And that's not all. .
. . You'll hear Maurice Chevalier's much-loved recording of "Louise,"
as well as the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks' recording of "Louise, You
Tease." There are Jazz Age crooners, torch singers, dance bands, hotel
orchestras, show tunes, novelty numbers, standards, and some real hot and some real sweet jazz!
European
tracks include Pola Negri's classic "Tango Notturno," the Russian-born
Ilja Livschakoff and his Tanz Orchester playing their homage to Garbo,
early German-language recordings by Marlene Dietrich, the unforgettable
1930s Polish chanteuse Hanka Ordonówna, and the great British cinema
organist Sidney Torch. There's the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht
singing "Mack the Knife" in 1929, and contemporary cartoonist Robert
Crumb playing on "Chanson por Louise Brooks". What's more, you'd be
hard-pressed to find a station that plays more tracks with Lulu in their
title (including the ever popular "Don't Bring Lulu") than the always
eclectic, always entertaining RadioLulu!
RadioLulu has a Twitter account at
@Radio_Lulu and a
Facebook page. Check 'em out.