[Dixielandjazz] South To a Warmer Place on Riverwalk Jazz

[macjazz]

Thanks to all for the responses.

I'm most interested in it from the Alec Wilder side.  I do consider Wilder one of the last whatever-term-you-want-to-use-for-him, types.  (His life is beyond description.)  I'm also a major Frank Lloyd Wright fan and in many ways, socially and creatively, they were alike.

I also do remember Dagmar.  You COULD almost hear them!

Mart

Martin D. McKay, (Designated LISTENER!)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Harry Callaghan 
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  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)

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      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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