How are your cockles? A little lacking in warmth? Lower your pants and back up to the glow of this swell recording. Cut your bad self some slack. Forget your troubles, or at least nudge them to one side, for some sweet hammock swinging from couple of mellow herb enthusiasts wrapped in the musical embrace of one of the finest arrangers who ever twirled a baton. And it's recorded (as they used to say) by none other than Wally Heider. Hall O' Foam© inductee Johnny Mercer gets to tweak the lyrics here and there and add a couple of songs of his own. CD edition with worthwhile xtry trx.
Should youse bums be desirous:
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Billy, Bing, Rosemary and "Satch" were VIPs, and by VIPs, I mean Very Important Potheads.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Pops!
anything that includes rosey is essential. those other guys are pretty good too.
ReplyDeletebilly may! i have never encountered a false step or note by him.
Quality arranging - a dying craft these days.
ReplyDeleteAt this level of talent, performance, production, and material, it's long gone, as gone as the times. An alchemy of personality and skill in a particular temporal crucible impossible to replicate.
Deletesample and slap it together. nothin' to it!! a keystroke or two and a preset.
DeleteI've got an app I use with Garageband on my iPad for strings. Use it carefully and it really does sound like proper strings. Who needs musicians?
Deletethe thing is that the initial "this sounds great" wears as well as a pair of knock off nikes. so many good songs eventually are unlistenable because of instrument apps and samples... and the incredibly trite autotune which is still being used by so called genius "producers"!
DeleteDesirous. Been looking for this is highlighted in Will Friedwald's book. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/201629/the-great-jazz-and-pop-vocal-albums-by-will-friedwald/
ReplyDeleteI've been unable to get that book from z-library, because its massive file size breaks my connection, but there's the same author's Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz & Pop Singers, for your perusing pleasure!
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I have the Vocal Albums book - in epub.
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yes yes please!
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Deletethank you!
DeleteQuite lucky - I thought what Farq posted was what I had, but I had the "Albums" and not the "Singers" book. So, now you, Farq and I have both.
Deletethank you to farq also, for the other book. i am a sucker for these kinds of reference and guide books. now that i am workless i can actually read mcfarland books cover to cover. i now know things i never knew i wanted to know.
DeleteThanks, Steve!
DeleteNot the kind of thing I normally listen to, but it was fun. Struck me as a good recording, too. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note that Wally Heider went on to work with Hendrix (among hundreds of others).
DeleteWha? Ya want me to drop trow', back up to the warm glow and nudge my troubles to the side for a while?!? Best offer I've had all day actually! Who knows, it might help put me inna beta frame of mind. Can't imagine why it wouldn't be a good time in any case. Thanks for the invite and soundtrack.
ReplyDeleteI have the book "Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong." Apparently Louis like to record reel-to-reel tapes, smoke a few muggles, and adorn the tape boxes with wonderful collages, text, drawings. As a music lover/graphic designer who did the same on C90 cassette tapes back in the day, it was a must have. What would Satch have done with iTunes and Photoshop?
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thanks babs. a fascinating proposition.
ReplyDeleteLovely! We mostly play the great canon of classic "Jazz and Pop Vocals" when entertaining this time of year and these are certainly two shining gems of the genre. Thanks for giving!
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