[Dixielandjazz] "Sh-Boom (was Need lead sheet - "Who Are You?")

[Harry Callaghan]

Bill:

Is that CD-set the one that's called "Tip of the Freberg"?  I was thinking
of buying it
but I have the great majority of the material contained therein on 45s &
78s.and I couldn't
see spending the money to duplicate it.just for the sake of one or two I'm
missing.

I also of course, have on LP his "United States of America" which along with
producer
David Merrick, he at one time attempted to bring to the Broadway.stage. His
book tells of how
Merrick was "driving him up the wall" and he backed out of the deal it to
save his sanity

To the best of my knowledge, he is still alive but I haven't heard anything
of him since he
did some ads maybe in the 90s for Encyclopedia Bittanica.  His son appeared
onscreen and
he just did the voice-over

Have you ever heard his "Elderly Man River"?  I have it on a cassette tape
of some of his radio shows.........it is truly unique.

Tides
Harry.


On 7/9/10, Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> Harry Callaghan wrote (in part):
> > To think that some people were critical of the lyrics to "Sh-Boom" back
> in
> > the 50s.....
>
> Dear Harry,
> The Freberg can be heard at:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSmLO6pmYcI&feature=related
> Not the greatest HiFi, but it's there along with the Crew Cuts' original
> at:
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsWpeShAvoo&NR=1&feature=fvwp
>
> For anyone interested in the wunnerful Stan Freberg 45s they shouldn't
> overlook a US$20 hidden gem still available at Worlds Records:
>
> A  DRG (91512) 2-CD set. Here are the very singles that Stan Freberg
> recorded for Capitol Records throughout the early part of his illustrous
> career. Hip and irreverent, Stan Freberg was the last network radio comic, a
> trailblazing satirist whose work greatly expanded the vocabulary of the
> comedy form. While most comedians use radio and records merely as a
> springboard for more lucrative film and television gigs. Freberg pushed the
> envelope in both mediums, creating high-concept musical comedies and sound
> collages which revolutionized the audio format while sending the stage for
> hallucinatory sonic visions of the Firesign Theater and the National Lampoon
> troupe."
>
> All the favourites, including "C'est Si Bon (It's So Good), A Dear John &
> Marsha Letter, Sh-Boom, The Yellow Rose Of Texas, Rock Around Stephen
> Foster, St. George & The Dragonet, The Great Pretender, Heartbreak Hotel,
> Rock Island Line, Banana Boat (Day-O), Tele-Vee-Shun, Ya Got Trouble, Green
> Christmas........."
> I couldn't resist buying the set when it came out last year.
> Kind regards,
> Bill.
>
>


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