Earl Okin's Gramophone Show 3

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In this show, Earl takes us through the following tracks...

Track Listing

1. John Willie, Come On - Formby. GEORGE FORMBY Sr./GEORGE FORMBY Jr.
2. MANON LESCAUT - Puccini. In Quelle Trine Morbide. CELESTINA BONINSEGNA
3. Begin The Beguine - Porter. ARTIE SHAW ORCHESTRA
4. Drop Me Off In Harlem - Ellington. ADELAIDE HALL with BENNY WATERS
5. La Violetera - Padilla. LUCREZIA BORI
6. Something In The Air - Okin. EARL OKIN

Images

Links

Earl's MySpace Page, offering his gig list and a few of his recent recordings...
http://www.myspace.com/earlokin

The 78rpm page in Earl's own Web Site.
http://www.earlokin.com/78.html

Earl Okin's Gramophone Show 2

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Earl offers you a virtual tour of some of the 10,000 78rpm records on his shelves explaining a little of their history and musical importance.

[Image Right: Chaliapin listening to a 'fan' gramophone]

In so doing, he also demonstrates the influences on his own unique style of performance.

[Image Left: Will Fyffe in character]

Each of these podcasts will also contain one of Earl's own performances...as a bonus!

Featuring:

1. Persian Love Song - Rubinstein. FEODOR CHALIAPIN
2. I'm 94 Today - Fyffe. WILL FYFFE
3. Honeysuckle Rose - Waller. DJANGO REINHARDT (with Stephane Grappelly & The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France
4. LA TOSCA - Puccini. E Lucevan Le Stelle. ENRICO CARUSO
5. Dusk - Ellington. DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA
6. Butterflies - Okin. EARL OKIN

[Image Right: Enrico Caruso dressed the way that Earl likes to dress]

Links:
Earl's MySpace Page, offering his gig list and a few of his recent recordings...
http://www.myspace.com/earlokin

[Image Left:Duke Ellington at the piano]

The 78rpm page in Earl's own Web Site.
http://www.earlokin.com/78.html

[Image Right:Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly & the QHCF]




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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show 1

Episode 1! (The collector's item!!! Get in quickly!)

Earl offers you a virtual tour of some of the 10,000 78rpm records on his shelves explaining a little of their history and musical importance.

In so doing, he also demonstrates the influences on his own unique style of performance.
Each of these podcasts will also contain one of Earl's own performances...as a bonus!

The picture shows Earl as a young man with one of his wind-up gramophones and just a couple of his 78rpm treasures even back then...

Links:
Earl's MySpace Page, offering his gig list and a few of his recent recordings...
http://www.myspace.com/earlokin

The 78rpm page in Earl's own Web Site.
http://www.earlokin.com/78.html

Featured Songs

1. Love Me Or Leave Me - Donaldson/Kahn. RUTH ETTING.
2. GIANNI SCHICCHI-Puccini. O My Beloved Father. JOAN HAMMOND.
3. St. Louis Blues - Handy. PAUL ROBESON.
4. Tremolo Study - Tarrega. ANDRES SEGOVIA.
5. TURANDOT - Puccini. JUSSI BJORLING.
6. Hey, Honey! - Okin. EARL OKIN.

The Show Evolves

We find ourselves in His Room once more and this time Earl tells us about his recent tour of Belgium. He also manages to drop a few names when telling us about his performance at Rory Bremner's Celebrity-filled Shindig and tells us about how his newly acquired web publishing skills are going to be put to good use for your pleasure.

Why not click and listen to see what will be in store for you with the forthcoming Earl Okin Shows.

Presented by Adam Larking of LittleSmasher.com

Featured Music
Love Me Or Leave Me, sung by Earl Okin

Featured Links
earlokin.blogspot.com
earlokin.com/schedule.html

Earl Okin in London Now

How is Earl? What's he going to be doing for Christmas this year? Is our Man With The Sex Factor going to audition for the X Factor? And what's Brian Johnson got to do with anything anyway?

Find the answer to these important questions, his up and coming gigs in your area and more by listening to this, the first, Earl Okin Show podcast.

Presented by Adam Larking of LittleSmasher.com

Songs and Music by Earl Okin

'London Now' and 'Christmases When We Were Young' are available from
Earl's website at earlokin.com or myspace.com/earlokin

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