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Louise Brooks inspired, silent film themed radio featuring music of the Twenties, Thirties and today - includes film music, early jazz, dance bands, songs sung by silent film stars, and contemporary pop music about this famous silent film star.
DJ: thomas gladysz
Location: San Francisco, CA

Created: Dec 29, 02
Updated: Aug 1, 11
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RadioLulu is a Louise Brooks-inspired, silent-film themed radio station streaming music of the 1920s, 1930s and today.

This unique station features music from six of the Brooks' films - including the haunting themes from Beggars of Life (1928) and Prix de Beaute (1930), as well as musical snippets from The Canary Murder Case (1929) and Empty Saddles (1936). Other vintage tracks associated with the actress on RadioLulu include Maurice Chevalier's much-loved 1929 recording of "Louise," and rare recordings by co-stars Adolphe Menjou, Noah Beery, Blanche Ring, Grace Moore, and Cary Grant. RadioLulu also plays contemporary musical tributes to the actress by the likes of Twiggy, Rufus Wainwright, Soul Coughing, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark (OMD), Marillion, The Green Pajamas, Ron Hawkins, Sarah Azzara, Paul Hayes, and Clan of Xymox, among others.

Rare recording by Brooks' Hollywood contemporaries are also featured. Among the film world personalities heard on the station are Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin, Joan Crawford, Pola Negri, Ramon Novarro, Dolores Del Rio, Lupe Velez, Bebe Daniels, Marlene Dietrich, Buddy Rogers, Jean Harlow, and Tallulah Bankhead. Janet Gaynor And Charles Farrell sing the charming "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You."

On RadioLulu, you'll also hear Jazz Age crooners, torch singers, dance bands, hotel orchestras, show tunes, standards, and some real sweet jazz! There are vintage recordings from England, France, Germany, and even Czechoslovakia. There are also tracks featuring the celebrated 1930's Polish chanteuse Hanka Ordonówna, the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht (singing "Mack the Knife" in 1929!), and the contemporary cartoonist Robert Crumb (playing on "Chanson por Louise Brooks"). And what's more, you'd be hard-pressed to find a station that plays more tracks with "Lulu" in the title than the always eclectic and always entertaining RadioLulu!

Who else can be heard on RadioLulu? How about the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Abe Lyman, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Gertrude Lawrence, Annette Hanshaw, Rudy Vallee, Helen Kane, Paul Whiteman, Ted Weems, George Gershwin, Russ Colombo, Harry Richman, Libby Holman and Xavier Cugart as well as Camilla Horn, Lillian Harvey, Anny Ondra, Josephine Baker, Lucienne Boyer, Mistinguett, and even Kiki of Montparnase.

RadioLulu plays great music, including numerous rare recordings of movie stars from the silent film & early sound era. For more about Louise Brooks - please visit the Louise Brooks Society at www.pandorasbox.com or it's long-running blog at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com. Or, visit the RadioLulu page at MySpace. Thanks for your interest, and thank you for listening!

thomas gladysz
Director, Louise Brooks Society

Ambrose, Ben Selvin, Bruz Fletcher, Cliff Edwards, Django Rheinhart, Dorothy Dickson, Frances Langford, Fred Astaire, Jaroslav Jezek, John Safranko, John Zorn, Lady Godiva, Lee Wiley, Mildred Bailey, Ruth Etting, Scrappy Lambert, Sidnet Torch, John Philip Sousa, Berthe Sylva, Bob Crosby, Cleaners of Venus, Dick Powell, Frankie Trumbauer, Fred Elizalde, George Olsen, Golden Gate Orchestra, Jane Greene, Jen Anderson, Johnny Hamp, Kay Thompson, Nouvelle Culture
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