[78-L] "Larry Wagner Orchestra"

[simmonssomer]

What an awful, banal little tune. It should have, and did, sink without a 
trace. No idea when it was stillborn. (good trombone section though!)
But...Wagner was a CBS staff arranger and made four Victor sides in '37 
using Dave Barbour (g) Adrian Rollini and Claude Thornhill among others.
(See Rust "Jazz Records")
He also made a few charts in 1938 for Casa Loma.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 7:46 PM
Subject: [78-L] "Larry Wagner Orchestra"


>I just found a copy of this thing...I've never heard of the label or the
> orchestra.  The label on the flip side ("Don't Cry") lists soloists
> including Billy Butterfield,  Ernie Caceres,  Al Caiola and Freddy
> Ohms...all busy in the  NY studios around 1948-50 or so when I assume this
> was recorded.
>
> BTW the recording sound is excellent...very clean and the solos on  "Don't
> Cry" are perfectly miked.   The trombone section is so smooth and blended
> that it almost sounds like the same guy overdubbed playing all the parts.
>
> Anybody know anything about Larry Wagner,  this record,  or this label?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZxYxNx2Ijc
>
> BTW composer credits on both sides read "Wagner-Eaton-Shuman."
>
>
> Taylor
>
>
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