[Dixielandjazz] South To a Warmer Place on Riverwalk Jazz

[Harry Callaghan]

Mart:

As i was saying just recently to Bill Haeslar in an off-list conversation,
when it came to the Wilder album, another all-instrumental album when he
switched to Capitol, as well as being credited with being conductor on
albums for Peggy Lee and Dean Martin (both Capitol) and Sylvia Sims
(Reprise)unless you were actually there, it's doubtful there would be any
real way of knowing.

With the vast appreciation I have always had for what he contributed to us
all, I would prefer to think that he actually did the conducting and let him
have yet another feather in his bonnet.

I have heard that he supposedly went to his grave hating Mitch Miller
because as Columbia A&R man, he forced Frank to record "Mama Will Bark" with
Dagmar, who was briefly a late-night TV sensation famous for her rather
large breasts. (which you couldn't hear on the record)

Tides,
HC


On 7/22/10, macjazz <macjazz at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> One of the all time great albums.  I've often wondered while listening to
> it, if Sinatra truly conducted it or just fronted it.  I would be interested
> in the answer if any one knows.
>
> Mart
>
> Martin D. McKay (Designated listen)(and major Alec Wilder fan)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Callaghan" <
> meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>
> To: "Martin D. McKay" <macjazz at comcast.net>
> Cc: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] South To a Warmer Place on Riverwalk Jazz
>
>
>
> And during the period that he was under contract with Columbia Records,
>> Frank
>> Sinatra even recorded an album "FS Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder"
>>
>> My guess would be that he probably utilized the orchestra of Axel Stordahl
>> (but if I'm
>> wrong I know who'll be the first to correct me)
>>
>> Tides,
>> HC
>>
>>
>> On 7/22/10, Donald Mopsick <dmopsick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Alec Wilder was a great composer of popular song and chamber music
>>> ("I'll Be Around," "While We're Young"). Here is "South To a Warmer
>>> Place" (Lyric by Loonis McGlohan) as a duet with Catherine Russell and
>>> Dick Hyman, excerpted from the latest Riverwalk Jazz concert recording
>>> in San Antonio last May. Maybe some of you Wilder mavens can tell me
>>> when it was composed?
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igD-W9PzSt8
>>>
>>> mopo
>>>
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