Cream in My Coffee
You’re the Cream in My Coffee, performed by Ted Weems and His Orchestra, feat. Parker Gibbs.
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Tough bacon
Why is the Bacon so Tough? performed by Ray Starita & His Ambassadors Band.
Daisy Buchanan’s underwear
‘What the women would slip on underneath their wardrobe in the 1920s when they attend parties at the Gatsby’
From last year: La Perla’s Black Label collection. Article here.
Found via LifestyleAsia
The entire Gatsby manuscript, one poster
The text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on one big poster. Available here.
Found via Alice Woodruff
Merry Oldsmobile 3
Photograph by Kent Hall.
Taken at the 2007 Gatsby Summer Afternoon, held annually by the Art Deco Society of California.
Merry Oldsmobile 2
‘Cleavage, surrealism, and jaunty music – Yep, it’s a Fleischer cartoon!’ -IMDB user review
Before Betty Boop and Popeye: 1932 advertisement for Oldsmobile from the great Fleischer animation studio.
With nifty sing-along, bouncing ball animated lettering.
Merry Oldsmobile 1
In My Merry Oldsmobile, performed by The Jean Goldkette Orchestra.
Tiger Rag
Tiger Rag, performed by Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines.
I’m All A-Twitter
I’m All A-Twitter (And All A-Twirl), performed by Jesse Stafford & His Orchestra. From the film Close Harmony (1929).
Comes Love
Comes Love, performed by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, feat. Helen Forrest.
This also appeared on our wedding mix tape.
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