Roaring 20s: Belle Mann & Nat Shilkret - Wishing And Waiting For Love, 1929

[cosycleaner]

A splendid presentation as always with excellent images - can't figure out why Cupid is bringing the girl a huge bottle of ink however - too Freudian for me I fear.

[Masquerade03]

I like Shilkret because no matter he has to play he always does with the best taste. Fox- trot, waltz, with singer stars or without them he is unbeatable!

[barbcard]

Perfecta Pelikan and Tecla. How's that for exotica?

[charliebubblesoar]

looovely. thanks. great music, great photos, darlin! you do good things.

[dzheger]

Catchy tune and rhythm, and the direct and unaffected singing is indeed most appealing. And the artwork is, to quote the ad at 0:14, "le plus chic et le meilleur"

[121omePiet]

Great song, nice photo's...as always :)

I wonder if the woman on 2:00 has a laptop/notebook LOL ;-)

[240252]

Yes, indeed! It looks like that :-)

[Corrie121]

This is just so good. Belle Mann was such a  superb singer, that I could listen to her recordings for hours at a time. Nat Shilkret's Orchestra was a great too.

I have added this one to my "favourites".

Thanks for sharing.

[240252]

Thank you, Corrie. For me, Belle Mann was much better than three Helen Kanes put together. She had a very modern style of singing - without Helen Kane's babyish minoderie - yet still managing to keep charmingly in her singing that "it" flavour of female vocals of late 1920s