Good evening, ladies and gents, guys and dolls! Tonight you’re tuned in to station DUAN, home of all the best hits from the 1920s-1960s. So here we go, time to throw it back to the good ol’ days!
Share some tunes you’re crazy about from days gone by. But none of that newfangled sound the teenyboppers call music nowadays. No sir! We want some genuine Real McCoy handy dandy classic tunes! Hopefully something that you can dance to.
Thank you, cool cats of Deadsplinter for swinging by, and have a good night! Drive safe, folks!
this is a nice mellow way to go about me friday night
thank you for this topic
Love it
Was a ’60s baby, so that’s my decade.
Four Tops – I’ll Be There
I’m digging it!
Rad!
I love a bunch of music from the Good Old Days. Dinah Washington is probably my favorite female singer, ever:
Although Ella Fitzgerald is a close second:
Anyone who remembers Schoolhouse Rock might remember this voice. Blossom Dearie was a very popular singer in her day:
For the audiophiles out there, this Frank Sinatra album is the best of them:
I did a DUAN post for the incomparable Louis Jordan:
The reason why people will say that the music sounded better back then is because the performances were better. They didn’t have the luxury of unlimited tracks, pitch correction and the whole arsenal of digital signal processing that we’ve had available to us in recent decades. One engineer friend of mine said that we became victims of our own success because we could no longer insist on a good performance on tape as the starting point for mixing a track.
Love these! And yes, I agree, music really was better back in the day. So much talent
So good
1920s
Ethel Waters – Shake That Thing
1930s
The Ink Spots – My Prayer
These jams are the bee’s knees!
oh dangnabbit
you got there before me twofor
…welp
just proves it hard to resist ella and the ink spots
uhh whoops….saw the pic assumed it was the same song
me a dumb ass
/me goes for a twofer

its hard to resist ella and the ink spots tho
The more, the merrier 😊
lol…now thats a dangerous thing to say to me lol
might as well go for the threefor then
Wild!
1940s
Louis Jordan – Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
1950s
Bobby Darin – Mack The Knife
Groovin
1960s
Lou Christie – Lighting Strikes
Nice!
fourfor!
i dont know when this came out exactly…but im pretty sure its in the window
I’m pretty sure that’s 1956.
That’s crazy good
1920-1960 is the era of the Great American Songbook, right up my alley.
Make it sweet and make it hot.
Make it swing Tommy Dorsey-style
Make it cook like nobody’s business
Make it moan
I love Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane – just smooth and beautiful.
You’re the cat’s pajamas
Sweet!
Muddy Waters
A little Howlin Wolf
Some Miles and Trane to round it out
Fantastic!
Some of my guitar heroes were big in the 50’s…
Now we’re cooking with gas! 🔥
Speedy West is a hero.
The “5” Royales Think
5 Royales were perfection.
Amazing
Classic!
White Christmas — Otis Redding
Bonus points for you- thematic and Christmas