(SPECIAL GUEST-HOSTED EPISODE WITH LING!) On this week's show, my friend
Ling brings his fascinating tastes in "antique pop" to my fine
TSiMH listeners! First he played Ameircan singer
Ruth Etting doing "Button Up Your Overcoat" from the collection
Two Cents a Dance (
Amazon). Next
Helen Kane (aka
Betty Boop) did "That's My Weakness Now" recorded in 1928 and found on the collection
Boop-Boop-A-Doop: 27 Original Mono Recordings 1928-1951 (
Amazon). Next Germany's
Lizzi Waldmüller did "Du Hast Glück bei den Frau'n, Bel Ami" (roughly translated meaning: "You Have Luck with the Ladies, Bel Ami" which can be found on
Was Eine Frau Bei Nacht Verspricht (
iTunes,
Amazon.de). Then Chinese-born, Japanese-voiced
Li Xiang Lan (aka
Yamaguchi Yoshiko) did "Ye Lai Xiang". Next Austrio-Hungarian-born
Marta Eggerth did "Was Kümmert Mich die Ganze Welt" (translated meaning "What is the Whole World to Me?") from the collection
Saemtliche veroeffentlichte Schallplatten 1931-1933 (
Amazon.de). Next another German,
Eva Busch did "Gruß und Kuß" (translated meaning "Regard and Kiss") from a collection called
Zauberlied (
Amazon.de). Then
Zhou Xuan did "Ye Shanghai" (meaning "Shanghai Nights") recorded in 1946 and can be found on
Romantic Chinese Hits of the 1930s and 1940s (
iTunes). And finally
Rina Ketty did her 1938 song "J'attendrai" from
Les Etoiles de la Chanson (
iTunes,
Amazon.de).