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Thai dancers at Wat Buddhapadipa ???????? temple, Wimbledon, London, 18/06/06.
Traditional Thai dancing set to Mark Isham's dreamy theme 'Flames', from the 2004 film Crash.
Video Copyright (c) Blutey.
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Isham Jones and His Orch. performing 3 tunes. The first is Why Can't This Night Go On Forever (written by Jones) with a vocal by Frank Sylvano, The 2nd I don't recognize and the 3rd, of course, is an arrangement of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# Minor.
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Isham Jones led one of the finest dance bands of the 20's and wrote several standards, such as "It Had To Be You", "I'll See You In My Dreams", "Swingin' Down the Lane" and "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else". This excellent record was made for Brunswick on October 2nd, 1925.
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Here is "Mama Loves Papa", recorded in New York, October 12, 1923 by the great Isham Jones Orchestra, issued on Brunswick 2506. Playback is on my ca. 1907 Victor VI with HMV No.4 soundbox.
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Played from acoustic Brunswick 2569 (recorded in Chicago January 17, 1924), Al Jolson is partnered by the Isham Jones Orchestra, and with Bud De Sylva, ukulele, in the famous tune "California, Here I Come". Again, my Columbia BII Disc Graphophone does the honors. Apologies for the truncated introduction, but that was the only way I could fit this within the 3-minute max on my camera...