If you had to pick 10 albums and 10 films from BEFORE 1960

[XemaSab]

to be stranded with on the proverbial desert island, what would you pick? :shrug:

[tigereye]

1. hmm, films would be fairly easy, but albums.. have to think some more

and finish later :)



maybe some Elvis and The Buddy Holly Story as well

recordings of Maria Callas
Miles Davis Birth of the Cool
Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come
Coltrane Giant Steps
Monk Brillian Corners
Sarah Vaughn
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Cole Porter
Porgy and Bess and other Gershwin compositions

[Captain Hilts]

2. Easy

African Queen
Some Like it Hot
Stalag 17
Adam's Rib
Spellbound
North by Northwest
Summertime
They Were Expendable
Twelve O'Clock High
Bringing Up Baby

Glenn Miller's Greatest Hits
Tommy Dorsey's Greatest Hits
Elvis Presley
Ella Fitzgerald's songbooks
Judy Garland's greatest hits
Count Basie with Joe Williams
Spellbound - soundtrack
Blues of some kind

[dawg]

3. I guess a bunch of Robert Johnson albums ...

about the devil, wicked women, and hellhounds on my trail.

Movies:

I don't know. All I've watched in old movies is The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. Oh, and I did catch part of Nanook of the North the other day.

[begin_within]

4. Mine:

Records:

"Kind of Blue" (Miles Davis)
"Love is the Thing" (Nat King Cole)
"In the Wee Small Hours" (Frank Sinatra)
"Miss Show Business" (Judy Garland)
"Missing Chapters" (The Glenn Miller Orchestra)
"Levant Plays Gershwin" (Oscar Levant)
"Firebird Suite" (Igor Stravinsky)
"Remember How Great? Volume 2" (Various Artists)
"Ella Fitzgerald sings the Cole Porter Songbook" (Ella Fitgerald)
"The Music of Duke Ellington Played by Duke Ellington" (Duke Ellington)

Films:

"Ikiru" (1952)
"Salt of the Earth" (1954)
"Bicycle Thieves" (1948)
"Tokyo Story" (1953)
"Fantasia" (1940)
"East of Eden" (1955)
"Casablanca" (1942)
"The Searchers" (1956)
"Vertigo" (1958)
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950)

Though there are tons of other possible films I could have substituted.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. well for the music: lots of Gershwin, Ellington, and classical

hard to pin down albums not knowing when they would have been released.

films

Wizard of Oz
GWTW
Arsenic & Old Lace
Bringing Up Baby
The Court Jester
Some LIke it HOt
Mr Roberts
Fantasia
some cheesy monster movies from the 30's

[Seneca]

6. I'll give it a shot

Albums:

Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"

John Coltrane - "Blue Train"

Ornette Coleman - "The Shape of Jazz to Come"

Charles Mingus - "Mingus Ah Um"

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out"

Chuck Berry - "Chuck Berry Is On Top"

Buddy Holly - "Buddy Holly"

Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - "Something Else"

John Coltrane - "Giant Steps"

Johnny Cash - "With His Hot and Blue Guitar"


Films:

Metropolis

Citizen Kane

M.

The Bridge On The River Kwai

Duck Soup

The Wizard of Oz

Vertigo

All Quiet On The Western Front

Intolerance

Sunset Boulevard