Posted on 06/06/2014 5:59:11 PM PDT by AZamericonnie
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Gaetano Lombardo (1902-77) was born in London, Ontario. His father, who had immigrated to Canada from Italy and worked as a tailor, was an amateur baritone and had four of his five sons learn to play instruments so they could accompany him. Guy and his brothers formed their first band while still in grammar school and rehearsed in the back of their father’s shop. The band signed with a number of labels and recorded prolifically from 1927 onward. Although Lombardo’s music was viewed in the jazz and big-band community of the day as corny, Louis Armstrong enjoyed Lombardo’s music.
The song “Speak Low” has an unusual provenance. Kurt Weill had collaborated with Bertold Brecht in Berlin during the Weimar years as the composer of a number of operas, to include “The Threepenny Opera” from which “Mack the Knife” originated, and “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” from which “Alabama Whiskey Bar” originated. Seeing the writing on the wall with the accession of Hitler, Weill fled Germany, came to the US, and collaborated with a number of lyricists, to include Ira Gershwin. In this song, he collaborated with Ogden Nash.
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The group was originally composed of four brothers, all born in Piqua, OH. They were John (1910-36), bass vocalist and guitarist, Herbert (1912-89), tenor, Harry (1913-82), baritone, and Donald (1915-99), lead tenor. The boys began singing in the church choir. After their music lessons at the school, they would gather in front of their father’s barbershop to sing and play the kazoo to passers-by.
They entered an amateur contest, but while on stage, Harry discovered he had lost his kazoo, so he cupped his hands to his mouth and imitated a trumpet. The success of his imitation led to all the brothers taking on instruments to imitate and created their early signature sound. John accompanied the four-part harmony first with a ukulele and then a guitar. They practiced imitating orchestras they heard on the radio: John the tuba, Harry the trumpet, Herbert the second trumpet and Donald the trombone. They entertained on the Midwest theater circuit, at house parties, tent shows, music halls and supper clubs throughout the area and became well known for their close harmonies, mastery of scat singing, and their ability to imitate musical instruments with their voices.
In 1928, the brothers accompanied the Harold Greenameyer Band to Cincinnati for an audition. The band was not hired, but the Mills brothers were. They quickly became local radio stars and got their major break when Duke Ellington played a date in Cincinnati. When the boys sang for Duke, he had them brought to New York for a signing.
In 1930, William Paley of the new CBS Radio network in New York turned on his office speaker and listened to an audition of the boys. When Paley heard them, he immediately went downstairs and put them on the air. The next day, the Mills Brothers signed a three-year contract and became the first blacks to have a network show on radio.
Their first recording, a cover of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band standard “Tiger Rag”, became a national hit. They were a success on CBS in 1930-31 when they co-starred on “The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour” hosted by Rudy Vallee. They had their own popular radio series in 1932-33, one of the earliest built around a black act. Before their show announcers commonly explained to listeners that the only instrument was a guitar, as the vocal effects made many listeners think they were hearing a muted trumpet, saxophone and string bass.
(GENTLE HUG & CHASTE SMOOCH)
You feeling better these days? I've been busy, as you can see.
Hiya Prof!
(GENTLE HUG & CHASTE SMOOCH RETURNED)
I have been feeling better yes, and thank you
for your concern!
I overdid it with the house work today, gotta watch that!
I see you HAVE been busy, and I am enjoying the fruits of your labor very much!
Well done!
Glad you like it. It’s a labor of love for our troops. They don’t make music like that anymore.
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The legendary songwriter Jimmy van Heusen was at Crosby’s house one evening for dinner to discuss a song for the movie “Going My Way”. During the meal one of the Crosby children began complaining about how he didn’t want to go to school the next day. Bing turned to his son and said, “If you don’t go to school, you might grow up to be a mule. Do you wanna do that?”
Jimmy thought this clever rebuke would make a good song for the movie. He pictured Crosby, who played a priest, talking to a group of children acting much the same way as his own child had acted that night.
That movie was to be a huge influence on John O’Connor, who later became Head Chaplain of the Armed Forces as a rear admiral at the Pentagon, and then Archbishop of New York. As a seminarian in Philadelphia, he saw the movie and credited it as the source of his desire to be the pastor of a parish. Little did he know that his career in the Navy would qualify him for a much bigger job.
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One of my favorites!
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That’s Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen on vocals. This song was written by 15 year old Conseula Velazquez in 1940, and it is the most recorded Mexican song in the repertory.
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Another one of my favorites. He first recorded it with Nazz in 1968 in a more bare-bones arrangement.
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Rod Stewart~The First Cut Is The Deepest
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