Coke Shows online--streaming audio

[leeann]

Google Alerts introduced an online resource for Mario Lanza music I
hadn't been aware of.
It's www.dizzler.com. You simple fill in the search box for the
person you'd like to hear (or see, in the case of available videos.)
Currently, this free service has about 55 Lanza selections including
numerous full-length versions of Coke Shows. They are not for
download. The site's About Us section, explains the sources for their
material as well as the developer's take on web copyright issues.)

Sound quality varies, but it's great to listen to the available
programs in their entirety.

Of course, there's an awfully good chance this is only available in
the U.S--unlike YouTube, so many of these services are country-
specific, but I thought I'd pass it along anyway, just in case.

Well, as Mr. Lanza has just said, "may I wish you the very best of
everything in life always." Happy 2010. Lee Ann

[Anita]

Hi Lee Ann, Happy New Year! Dizzler is available here too (Aust.) as
is www.deezer.com, which I have used. They did have more of Mario's
albums on it a couple of months ago but seem to have less on right
now. Most probably if more people used the site they would put more
on again.

On Jan 2, 3:03 pm, leeann <leeanngha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google Alerts introduced an online resource for Mario Lanza music I
> hadn't been aware of.

> It'swww.dizzler.com.  You simple fill in the search box for the

[leeann]

Hi, Anita. Interesting! The albums on dweezer don't look familiar.
I'll look forward to checking it out.

I'd better qualify "sound quality varies" with the full-length Coke
shows on dizzler. Sound quality is pretty awful. Nonetheless,
listening to an entire program (including commercials) is quite a
different experience from listening to the selections one at a time,
remastered, regardless of whether it's Lanza's unparalleled
interpretations or the not-at-his-best versions. Each program I've had
time to listen to so far seems to include one each from the top and
bottom of the spectrum. It clarifies the explanations of the Coke
songs discussed on various threads on this forum--and once again,
clarifies Lanza's musical achievement as well.

I wonder what the listener demographic was for the Coke shows; whether
there were geographic or age concentrations, or whether families
gathered round the radio as they did with so many programs from Grand
Old Opry to Jack Benny to 20 Questions and all kinds of weekly dramas
and soap operas. Despite its rapid growth in the 1950s, I think the
majority of homes in the U.S. didn't yet own TVs. Best, Lee Ann