[Dixielandjazz] The Gatsby Grate

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Nelson Riddle had a hand in the Gatsby score?  


GARRULUS GLANDARIUS GATSBY 


O who can love Nelson Riddle 

of the acres of saccharine fiddle?
His bankers doing their sums? 

Let me get back behind my drums 

for a sardonic paradiddle 


and a caustic ratamacue 

so I do not feel too deeply blue, 

a press-roll presto like a Gat 

laying an enemy regiment flat,  

or a morse message to distant Kalamazoo ...


or some simpler-named precinct as far away,

Thompson-gun spray on St. Valentine's day, 

even the great Louis Bellson --
not our sugary sawmaster Nelson;  

better the tuneless croak of a real jay.

Robert R. Calder 




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>Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:00:44 -0400
>From: Snogpitch <snogpitch at yahoo.com>
>There's a lot of good music in the 70s soundtrack of Great Gatsby. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000Z5JSPS
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>Nelson Riddle was behind the musical scenes.  
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