[78-L] Alec Wilder was Mitch Miller (no he wasn't, I checked)

[David Lennick]

Riverside? Hmm..wonder if it was taken from Standard Transcriptions (there were 
2 or 3) or if it's another incarnation of the set issued on Vox 78s and a 
ten-inch Mercury LP? What titles are on the Riverside disc?

1951 is a bit early for an EP. Columbia would cheerfully have avoided 45s 
altogether but eventually had no choice, but I wonder if the Conversation Piece 
suite was originally 2 singles or one side of an LP? Or if the material didn't 
appear until 1952?

dl

Eric Goldberg wrote:
> I don't know this one at all, but I remember an Alec Wilder Octet (I think an octet) record on Riverside which I haven't found reissued. It was similar to the Frank Sinatra conducts album of Wilder works on Columbia. Does anyone know if this has been reissued.
> 
> Eric Goldberg
> 
> "Horn Belt Boogie" was one of the four pieces written by Alec Wilder for an 
> EP
> "Conversation Piece for Horns and Harpsichord" (Columbia B-1674) by Mitch 
> Miller;
> the others were "Serenade For Horns"; "Singing Horns"; "Horns O' Plenty". 
> They were
> recorded in New York on August 13th 1951 by:
> Stan Freeman, harpsichord; Jimmy Buffington, John Barrows, Ray Alonge and 
> Gunther Schuller
> french horns......maybe a way of relaxing after suffering through a Guy 
> Mitchell session???
> 
> Nigel Burlinson.
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