[78-L] Don't Give Up The Shep

[David Lennick]

Nothing "rippling" on Shlep's Musicraft or MGM sides..it was a conventional 
dance band by then. I always liked his "Carioca" on Musicraft. When did he 
recreate the Rippling Rhythm..late 50s for Golden Crest?

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> "New Shep" gave way to a return of "Old Shep" pretty quick...he went back to 
> rippling sometime during the war.  I think there are some ripplers on Vogue 
> and also Musicraft. which would date from c. 1945-6.
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> Polly Bergen was married to his brother,  Freddie,  who was an agent...I 
> think that's what Shep also ended up doing after he quite leading a band.
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> Taylor
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Randy Watts" <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Don't Give Up The Shep
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> --- On Thu, 4/30/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
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>> Cary, the way to handle this is to ignore Old Shep on
>> Buff and Staff, and go for the 11000-series. The
>> "New Music" records don't sound anything like the
>> ripplers. You might not like them either, but it won't
>> be for the same reasons!
>>
>> Taylor
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> How long did Shep and his "New Music" last? Some 1960s or '70s things he did 
> for Reader's Digest never vary from the old "Rippling Rhythm" formula.
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> Randy
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