A good-quality "Long Tall Sally," from a 1965 concert:
"I Feel Fine," from same '65 concert:
"I'm Down," from unidentified TV performance:
"She Loves You," "Twist & Shout," and "I Saw Her Standing There," and "Long Tall Sally," in this well-recorded '63 Swedish concert:
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Show Business .. and More
Robert Morse leads the pack in this infectious rendition of "The Brotherhood of Man," from the screen adaptation of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
Robert Morse in a delightful duo on "The Company Way," from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
Robert Morse as mystery guest on "What's My Line," several days after the movie adaptation of "How to Succeed" opened in New York:
Robert Preston, sings "Trouble Right Here In River City," from the screen version of the Music Man:
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's the title song from the show:
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "Honeysuckle Rose":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "A Handful of Keys":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "How Ya Baby?":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Ladies Who Sing with the Band":
From Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Joint Is Jumpin'" and "Lounging at the Waldorf"
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Viper":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'" it's "Mean To Me":<
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Suffer Baby":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Give Them What They Like":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Black and Blue":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's a Fats Waller medley, including: "I've Got My Fingers Crossed"; "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"; "It's A Sin to Tell A Lie"; Reprise of "Ain't Misbehavin'"
"Ain't Misbehavin'" cast performs "the Ladies Who Sing with the Band" at the Tony Awards:
A clear video (with both sides of the stereo) of "Taint Nobody's Bizness," from "Ain't Misbehavin'" TV special:
Robert Morse in a delightful duo on "The Company Way," from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying:
Robert Morse as mystery guest on "What's My Line," several days after the movie adaptation of "How to Succeed" opened in New York:
Robert Preston, sings "Trouble Right Here In River City," from the screen version of the Music Man:
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's the title song from the show:
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "Honeysuckle Rose":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "A Handful of Keys":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "How Ya Baby?":
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Ladies Who Sing with the Band":
From Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Joint Is Jumpin'" and "Lounging at the Waldorf"
From "Ain't Misbehavin," it's "The Viper":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'" it's "Mean To Me":<
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Suffer Baby":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Give Them What They Like":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's "Black and Blue":
From "Ain't Misbehavin'," it's a Fats Waller medley, including: "I've Got My Fingers Crossed"; "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"; "It's A Sin to Tell A Lie"; Reprise of "Ain't Misbehavin'"
"Ain't Misbehavin'" cast performs "the Ladies Who Sing with the Band" at the Tony Awards:
A clear video (with both sides of the stereo) of "Taint Nobody's Bizness," from "Ain't Misbehavin'" TV special:
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
In A Buffalo State of Mind
Buffalo TV - my Toronto-era window onto the U.S.
The open to WKBW-TV Channel 7 Buffalo's "Eyewitness News" with Irv Weinstein still resounds with me (and probably with all TV-watching Torontonians of a certain age). Dig this clip from the mid-1980s, to get a feeling of the style and content of a typical "Eyewitness News" broadcast. That theme music still rocks!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Nelson Riddle and his Magic
Jonathan Schwartz's 1982 interview with Nelson Riddle (Part 1 of 5)
Here's Part 2:
Here's Part 3:
Here's Part 4:
Here's Part 5:
Here's Part 2:
Here's Part 3:
Here's Part 4:
Here's Part 5:
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Jennifer Jordan & Mike Barris
"Lady Be Good," performed by Mike Barris & Friends, featuring Barris, rhythm guitar and vocals, Doug Clarke, lead guitar, Tom Bender, trumpet, and Jennifer Jordan, vocals, at Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center on July 23, 2011 (temperature 101 degrees).
"Sheik of Araby" performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center on July 23, 2011.
"I Need A Little Sugar in My Bowl," performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center, July 23, 2011.
"God Bless the Child," performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center, July 23, 2011.
"Sheik of Araby" performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center on July 23, 2011.
"I Need A Little Sugar in My Bowl," performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center, July 23, 2011.
"God Bless the Child," performed by Mike Barris & Friends, Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Festival at Middletown Arts Center, July 23, 2011.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Possible trad-jazz songs for gigs?
Paris Washboard performs "I Never Knew" - note no bass or drums - piano plays left-hand bass.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Swing That Music!
Charles Mingus and sextet play "Take the 'A' Train" at Montreux festival in 1975. The personnel:
Charles Mingus: bass; George Adams: tenor saxophone and vocals; Don Pullen: piano; Jack Walrath: trumpet; Dannie Richmond: drums; Gerry Mulligan: baritone saxophone; and Benny Bailey: trumpet.
(Two parts)
Anita O'Day, in Tokyo in 1963 TV special, singin' and swingin' on Four Brothers:
Anita sings "That Old Feeling," from the same '63 TV production:
Jazz on a Summer's Day: Anita O'Day, Thelonius Monk, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, others, the full film:
The background to "Jazz on a Summer's Day": in 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot 'The Last Sitting', six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn't have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America's Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule.
Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said 'just jumped off the screen'. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.'
Hence the selection for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant'.
"JATP Blues," with the colorful Irving Ashby guitar solo I love, from an April 22, 1946 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. From the original Clef label 3 record 78rpm album set of "Jazz At The Philharmonic, Volume 6." Introduction: Norman Granz. The personnel:
Buck Clayton - trumpet
Charlie Parker, Willie Smith - alto saxes
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young - tenor saxes
Irving Ashby - guitar
Kenny Kersey - piano
Billy Hadnott - bass
Buddy Rich - drums
"How High The Moon," a buoyant JATP treatment from Feb. 12, 1945, with:
Howard McGhee, Joe Guy - trumpets
Willie Smith - alto sax
Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Ventura - tenor saxes
Ulysses Livingston - guitar
Garland Finney - piano
Red Callender - bass
Gene "Chicago Flash" Krupa - drums
"Tea for Two," a wonderfully easy-swinging version, with a 1944 JATP all-star band that includes Nat King Cole, and Les Paul (who takes a wildly inventive solo):
1950's drum battle on Steve Allen Show, with Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, and Louie Bellson:
Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank DiBussolo, on "In A Mellowtone." Delightful music, with great views of the guitarists' fingers!
Charles Mingus: bass; George Adams: tenor saxophone and vocals; Don Pullen: piano; Jack Walrath: trumpet; Dannie Richmond: drums; Gerry Mulligan: baritone saxophone; and Benny Bailey: trumpet.
(Two parts)
Anita O'Day, in Tokyo in 1963 TV special, singin' and swingin' on Four Brothers:
Anita sings "That Old Feeling," from the same '63 TV production:
Jazz on a Summer's Day: Anita O'Day, Thelonius Monk, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, others, the full film:
The background to "Jazz on a Summer's Day": in 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot 'The Last Sitting', six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn't have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America's Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule.
Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said 'just jumped off the screen'. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.'
Hence the selection for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being 'culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant'.
"JATP Blues," with the colorful Irving Ashby guitar solo I love, from an April 22, 1946 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert. From the original Clef label 3 record 78rpm album set of "Jazz At The Philharmonic, Volume 6." Introduction: Norman Granz. The personnel:
Buck Clayton - trumpet
Charlie Parker, Willie Smith - alto saxes
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young - tenor saxes
Irving Ashby - guitar
Kenny Kersey - piano
Billy Hadnott - bass
Buddy Rich - drums
"How High The Moon," a buoyant JATP treatment from Feb. 12, 1945, with:
Howard McGhee, Joe Guy - trumpets
Willie Smith - alto sax
Illinois Jacquet, Charlie Ventura - tenor saxes
Ulysses Livingston - guitar
Garland Finney - piano
Red Callender - bass
Gene "Chicago Flash" Krupa - drums
"Tea for Two," a wonderfully easy-swinging version, with a 1944 JATP all-star band that includes Nat King Cole, and Les Paul (who takes a wildly inventive solo):
1950's drum battle on Steve Allen Show, with Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, and Louie Bellson:
Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank DiBussolo, on "In A Mellowtone." Delightful music, with great views of the guitarists' fingers!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
To Be Perfectly Frank ....
From 1965, it's Frank, Dean, Sammy (and Johnny!):
Frank and Dean on TV, particularly funny kibitzing around on "I Get A Kick Out of You," starting around 4:10:
Sinatra, in 1968 TV special, singing (beautifully) "All The Way."
Celine (yuck) Dionne sings "duet" with a cinematic Sinatra on "All The Way." I have to admit it is really well done.
Sinatra sings "Witchcraft," in 1965 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra does "I've Got the World on a String" on '65 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra sings "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," on his TV show, around 1950.
"This Love Of Mine," live on TV, sometime in the '50s:
"Fly Me To the Moon," from the TV special "A Man and His Music, Part II":
"Moonlight in Vermont," the terrific rendition from the 1966 TV special (the arranger is Billy May, not Nelson Riddle, as the text superimposed over the film says at the outset).
An exciting version of "Luck Be A Lady," from the '66 TV special:
"I've Got You Under My Skin," at Royal Festival Hall, around 1970
Sinatra in mesmerizing TV performance of "Old Man River," highlighted by the long note holds on "jaaaaailllll," around 1966.
"I Get Along Without You Very Well," the moving rendition from '71 Royal Festival Concert. The strings start the squeamish feeling for me from the get-go.
"Pennies from Heaven," a muscular treatment from the '71 Festival Hall outing, notable particularly for its thrice-repeated for-you-and line at the ending and Sinatra's pronunciation of "thun-dah!"
"You Make Me Feel So Young," kicking off the '71 Festival Hall concert. Again, notable for its ending.
Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" kicks off the 1965 "A Man and His Music" special.
"Without a Song," from "A Man and His Music" TV special, 1965.
"Don't Worry About Me," from "A Man and His Music," the '65 TV feature:
"I Get A Kick out of You," from "A Man and His Music," with a new, Nelson Riddle-created arrangement.
"Last Night When We Were Young," from "A Man and His Music."
"In the Still of the Night," from 1961, in Sydney, Australia, including false start.
"Night and Day," the uptempo version, performed in 1961 in Sydney:
A swingin' "I'll Be Seeing You," from '61 Sydney concert:
"I Concentrate on You," from live Sydney show, 1961:
"The Second Time Around," from Sydney performance, '61:
A very lively "Come Fly with Me," from his late '50s TV show:
A suave "I Get A Kick out of You," by a hat-wearing Sinatra, in original chart, from a TV appearance:
A feverishly fast "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," from the TV special:
Sinatra's swinging "Granada," performed in a TV special:
Sinatra kicks off a TV special, "A Man and His Music + Ella +Jobim," with "Day In, Day Out":
Sinatra, in a moody "Angel Eyes," live from the late '50s:
Sinatra's emotional reading of Jacques Brel's "I'm Not Afraid," at this link:
http://youtu.be/fhPus6kGMfo
Sinatra sings "Star!"
Now here's Sinatra performing "Star" on TV at Academy Awards ceremony in the early or mid-60s (note the shots of the nervous stars to whom he is singing):
Sinatra performs "My Way," on TV in the late '60s:
Sinatra swings very well, despite a bit of hoarseness, on this appealingly slow, late '60s rendition of "Please Be Kind":
Sinatra's Reprise recording of "We'll Meet Again":
Sinatra sings "Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong":
Sinatra is in excellent voice on this mostly serviceable '63 waxing of "Some Enchanted Evening":
Frank and Dean on TV, particularly funny kibitzing around on "I Get A Kick Out of You," starting around 4:10:
Sinatra, in 1968 TV special, singing (beautifully) "All The Way."
Celine (yuck) Dionne sings "duet" with a cinematic Sinatra on "All The Way." I have to admit it is really well done.
Sinatra sings "Witchcraft," in 1965 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra does "I've Got the World on a String" on '65 TV special, "A Man and His Music."
Sinatra sings "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," on his TV show, around 1950.
"This Love Of Mine," live on TV, sometime in the '50s:
"Fly Me To the Moon," from the TV special "A Man and His Music, Part II":
"Moonlight in Vermont," the terrific rendition from the 1966 TV special (the arranger is Billy May, not Nelson Riddle, as the text superimposed over the film says at the outset).
An exciting version of "Luck Be A Lady," from the '66 TV special:
"I've Got You Under My Skin," at Royal Festival Hall, around 1970
Sinatra in mesmerizing TV performance of "Old Man River," highlighted by the long note holds on "jaaaaailllll," around 1966.
"I Get Along Without You Very Well," the moving rendition from '71 Royal Festival Concert. The strings start the squeamish feeling for me from the get-go.
"Pennies from Heaven," a muscular treatment from the '71 Festival Hall outing, notable particularly for its thrice-repeated for-you-and line at the ending and Sinatra's pronunciation of "thun-dah!"
"You Make Me Feel So Young," kicking off the '71 Festival Hall concert. Again, notable for its ending.
Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" kicks off the 1965 "A Man and His Music" special.
"Without a Song," from "A Man and His Music" TV special, 1965.
"Don't Worry About Me," from "A Man and His Music," the '65 TV feature:
"I Get A Kick out of You," from "A Man and His Music," with a new, Nelson Riddle-created arrangement.
"Last Night When We Were Young," from "A Man and His Music."
"In the Still of the Night," from 1961, in Sydney, Australia, including false start.
"Night and Day," the uptempo version, performed in 1961 in Sydney:
A swingin' "I'll Be Seeing You," from '61 Sydney concert:
"I Concentrate on You," from live Sydney show, 1961:
"The Second Time Around," from Sydney performance, '61:
A very lively "Come Fly with Me," from his late '50s TV show:
A suave "I Get A Kick out of You," by a hat-wearing Sinatra, in original chart, from a TV appearance:
A feverishly fast "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," from the TV special:
Sinatra's swinging "Granada," performed in a TV special:
Sinatra kicks off a TV special, "A Man and His Music + Ella +Jobim," with "Day In, Day Out":
Sinatra, in a moody "Angel Eyes," live from the late '50s:
Sinatra's emotional reading of Jacques Brel's "I'm Not Afraid," at this link:
http://youtu.be/fhPus6kGMfo
Sinatra sings "Star!"
Now here's Sinatra performing "Star" on TV at Academy Awards ceremony in the early or mid-60s (note the shots of the nervous stars to whom he is singing):
Sinatra performs "My Way," on TV in the late '60s:
Sinatra swings very well, despite a bit of hoarseness, on this appealingly slow, late '60s rendition of "Please Be Kind":
Sinatra's Reprise recording of "We'll Meet Again":
Sinatra sings "Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong":
Sinatra is in excellent voice on this mostly serviceable '63 waxing of "Some Enchanted Evening":
Monday, April 4, 2011
Radio Daze
Hear Jackson Armstrong's first show on CHUM, in 1968:
http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/air1968.html
http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/air1968.html
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
You Gotta Be-Leaf!
Darryl Sittler's record-smashing 10-point scoring binge in a game against Boston in 1976:
Sittler had an incredible year in 1975-76. On February 7, 1976, he produced the greatest offensive game in the history of the National Hockey League, guaranteeing his place in the record books even after Wayne Gretzky had come and gone. Toronto was hosting the Boston Bruins, a team on a seven-game winning streak. The Bruins had recently reacquired Gerry Cheevers, but coach Don Cherry wanted to give the goalie a rest before his upcoming Boston homecoming and started rookie netminder Dave Reece instead. The Leafs beat up the Bruins 11-4, but Sittler was the big story. He had two assists in the first period, three goals and two assists in the second and another hat trick in the third. The total of six goals and four assists set a league record for points in one game that had previously been held by Maurice "Rocket" Richard with eight.
The big night helped Sittler become the first Leaf to reach the 100 mark in scoring in a season, collecting 41 goals and 59 assists. But he wasn't finished. During the playoffs in April against the Philadelphia Flyers, Sittler scored five goals in one game, tying the playoff record. In September, during the Canada Cup in Montreal, Sittler would make headlines again with his scoring ways. This time it wasn't the quantity but the quality and the timeliness that made the impression. In overtime of the second game of the best-of-three finals versus Czechoslovakia, Sittler held onto the puck on a partial breakaway until Czech goalie Vladimir Dzurilla committed himself and an opening presented itself. The goal secured the championship and made Sittler an overnight hero in Canada.
Sittler had an incredible year in 1975-76. On February 7, 1976, he produced the greatest offensive game in the history of the National Hockey League, guaranteeing his place in the record books even after Wayne Gretzky had come and gone. Toronto was hosting the Boston Bruins, a team on a seven-game winning streak. The Bruins had recently reacquired Gerry Cheevers, but coach Don Cherry wanted to give the goalie a rest before his upcoming Boston homecoming and started rookie netminder Dave Reece instead. The Leafs beat up the Bruins 11-4, but Sittler was the big story. He had two assists in the first period, three goals and two assists in the second and another hat trick in the third. The total of six goals and four assists set a league record for points in one game that had previously been held by Maurice "Rocket" Richard with eight.
The big night helped Sittler become the first Leaf to reach the 100 mark in scoring in a season, collecting 41 goals and 59 assists. But he wasn't finished. During the playoffs in April against the Philadelphia Flyers, Sittler scored five goals in one game, tying the playoff record. In September, during the Canada Cup in Montreal, Sittler would make headlines again with his scoring ways. This time it wasn't the quantity but the quality and the timeliness that made the impression. In overtime of the second game of the best-of-three finals versus Czechoslovakia, Sittler held onto the puck on a partial breakaway until Czech goalie Vladimir Dzurilla committed himself and an opening presented itself. The goal secured the championship and made Sittler an overnight hero in Canada.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Studio sessions .....
A jingle session with the Johnny Mann Singers ...
And heeere's Shotgun Tom Kelly himself, doing his oldies show:
Another jingle session:
And heeere's Shotgun Tom Kelly himself, doing his oldies show:
Another jingle session:
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