At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. This is a sample of the mix for 1936, and includes the section for January only. To hear the rest of the mix, come to patreon.com/centuriesofsound, where I will be releasing the mix in two parts for $5 and above patrons, or come to centuriesofsound.com, where the entire mix will be streamable from the 14th of June 2021. Thanks to all of my patrons who have so far kept this show going, ad-free, through the first 75 years of sound recording.

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January

0:00:00 NBC Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 In A Major Op. 92. Ii. Allegretto(Clips from 1936-01-03 Opening Day of 74th Congress)0:00:34 Busch Quartet – String Quartet No. 12 In E Flat Op. 127(Clip from My Man Godfrey)(Clip from AT&T Archives Introduction to the Dial Telephone)0:02:21 Gene Krupa – Swing Is Here (+ Benny Goodman)(Clip from Rose Marie)0:05:16 Ink Spots – Stompin’ At The Savoy0:06:17 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – Stompin’ At The Savoy(Clip from Reefer Madness)0:08:28 Memphis Minnie – New Orleans Stop Time0:11:21 Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – Steel Guitar Rag0:14:08 Ciro Rimacs Rumba-Orchester – Maxixe-Carioca

February

(Clip from Disorder in the Court)0:15:58 Lion РFour Mills Brothers(Clip from Le Vrai Jeu)0:18:41 Charles Trenet РTout Est Au Duc(Clip from Anthony Adverse)0:20:56 Django Reinhardt Et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France, Avec St̩phane Grappelli РLimehouse Blues0:23:38 W. H. Auden РOn This Island0:24:27 Benjamin Britten, Stuart Legg and John Grierson РNightmail0:27:35 The Benny Goodman Quartet РTiger Rag (Take 1)(Clip from Cain & Mabel)0:30:37 Ella Fitzgerald feat. Chick Webb And His Orchestra РSing Me A Swing Song (And Let Me Dance)(Clip from Rose Marie)0:32:24 Jones-Smith Incorporated РLady Be Good0:35:29 Slim & Slam РThe Flat Foot Floogie

March

0:38:15 Robert Johnson – Cross Road Blues (Take 2)(Clip from 1936-03-01 King Edward VIII – The first broadcast to the Empire as King)0:41:18 Fred Astaire – Let’s Face The Music And Dance (Soundtrack)(Clip from 1936-03-01 King Edward VIII – The first broadcast to the Empire as King)0:43:27 Barney Bigard And His Jazzopaters – Caravan(Clip from 1936-03-07 PTT Albert Sarrault Proteste Contre Loccupation De La Rhenanie)0:44:27 Josephine Baker – Mayari0:46:20 Sukru Tunar – Suzinak Taksim0:47:05 Sukru Tunar – Karslama(Clip from 1936-03-xx Winston Churchill – The Loaded Pause)0:49:09 Ramadan Lolov – Orientalski Kyuchek(Clip from 1936-03-19 NBC ATMOTA – The Supreme Court and the Constitution)0:50:49 Milton Brown – Somebody’s Been Using That Thing(Clip from Pathe Review of 1936)

April

0:52:37 Phil Green – Nobody’s Sweetheart (Ballyhooligans)(Clip from 1936-04-02 NBC ATMOTA – Will Unionization Promote Industrial Recovery)0:54:31 Kōichi Sugii – Kiso Takashi0:57:15 Walter De La Mare – Nod0:58:15 Roy Acuff and his Crazy Tennesseeans – Great Speckled Bird(Clip from 1936-04-16 NBC ATMOTA – Will the Machine Dominate Man)1:00:14 Lonnie Glosson – Arkansas Hard Luck Blues(Clip from 1936-04-16 NBC ATMOTA – Will the Machine Dominate Man)1:03:11 Harlem Hamfats – Weed Smoker’s Dream(Clip from 1936-04-17 PTT Maurice Thorez)1:06:31 Edith Piaf – Je Suis Mordue(Clip from John Wayne in The Lawless Nineties)1:08:10 Sri Ma Keow & Chai Wat – Courting The Woman From Chiang Mai

May

(Gennett Sound Effects – Rainfall and Thunder)(Clip from 1936-05-01 Adolf Hitler Speech at Krupp Factory in Germany)1:09:18 NBC Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 In A Major Op. 92. Ii. Allegretto(Clip from 1936-05-09 EIAR Benito Mussolini – Vincere)(Clip from 1936-05-09 EIAR Reports End Of Ethiopian War)1:10:03 Pablo Casals – Excerpt from Suite No. 2 In D Minor(Clip of Spencer Tracy in Fury)1:10:59 Anestis Delias – Sura Ke Mastura(Clip of Shirley Temple in Poor Little Rich Girl)1:13:00 Septeto Anacaona – Despúes Que Sufras(Clip from Dodsworth)1:16:02 Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis – Celeste Blues(Clip from Camile)1:18:03 Mary Lou Williams – Corny Rhythm(Clip from Reefer Madness)1:21:15 Albert Ammons – Nagasaki(Clip from The Story of Louis Pasteur)1:23:05 Little Brother Montgomery – Farish Street Jive1:24:23 W. H. Auden – May

June

1:25:17 Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra – Pennies From Heaven(Clip from After The Thin Man)1:28:35 Georgia White – Get ’em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)(Clip from 1936-06-12 Alfred M Landon Speech)1:30:25 Fats Waller & His Rhythm – It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie(Clip from 1936-06-26 CBS Democratic Convention)1:34:54 Louis Armstrong – Mahogany Hall Stomp(Clip from 1936-06-26 CBS Democratic Convention)1:13:16 Bo Carter – Cigarette Blues1:39:34 Robert Johnson – They’re Red Hot(Clip from Rembrandt)1:41:07 Lil Johnson – Sam The Hot Dog Man(Clip from Tarzan Escapes)1:43:12 Lead Belly – Pig Meat Papa(Clip from The Story of Louis Pasteur)