Hamp,Charles Pioneer Radio Sensation CD

Jazz band leader Charlie Hamp was one of the first to fully realize the potential of radio. After serving in WWI and leading the U.S. Ambulance Service Jazz Band. Back in the States, her carried on with his career in jazz and toured vaudeville, taking to the scratchy air waves in 1931! Mostly forgotten today, he was a big star for the few people who could afford a radio. Most of these tracks were made for his syndicated radio show "Rhapsody in Rhythm" between 1936 and '37.

1. Rhapsody in Rhythm 2. My Melancholy Baby 3. With Plenty of Money and You [From the Film Gold Diggers of 1937] 4. For Sentimental Reasons 5. Roll on Mississippi, Roll on 6. Let's Call a Heart a Heart [From the Film Pennies from Heaven] 7. Darkness on the Delta 8. You Can't Pull the Wool Over My Eyes 9. It's Gonna Be You 10. Muddy Waters 11. Too Marvelous for Words [From the Film Ready, Willing and Able] 12. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie 13. I've Got You Under My Skin [From the Film Born to Dance] 14. I'd Do Anything for You 15. Moonbeam Kiss Her for Me [From the Revue George White's Scandals] 16. Down Where the Swanee River Flows [From the Musical Robinson Crusoe JR 17. Mother, Dixie and You 18. Pennies from Heaven [From the Film Pennies from Heaven] 19. I Was Taken By Storm [From the Film Dizzy Dames] 20. Boo Hoo 21. My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes 22. Here's Love in Your Eye [From the Film the Big Broadcast of 1937] 23. These Foolish Things Remind Me of You [From the Revue Spread It Abroad] 24. It's Time to Say Farewell