[78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls

[David Lennick]

You find me anyone who hasn't referred to him as "Lenny" over the last 60 years 
and I'll buy you lunch. He even worked as "Lenny Amber" while doing 
arrangements for Harms in his early years.

Incidentally, I have very little respect for Leonard Bernstein as a musician, a 
composer and a human being. I find many of his later performances eccentric and 
unlistenable, I find much of his symphonic work derivative and full of outright 
plagiarism, and I think the man had blood on his hands. That aside, he still 
turned out a couple of theatrical masterpieces.

dl

Jason Beard wrote:
> David,
> 
>       It's indeed an honor to learn that you were of such a great acquaintance with Mr. Bernstein, that you felt free to address him as 'Lenny". Not many of us are in your league.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:41:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> 
> It's of its time. Anybody could and did play the Rhapsody in Blue. Even today, 
> there are versions of it that are unbelievably ghastly, some of them by well 
> known artists who should have known better (Lenny Burnsteen being the worst 
> offender, Andre Previn coming in second, with a special award going to every 
> Paul Whiteman version with the distorted rhythms and the heavenly choir). 
> Spitalny's choral sides make me to barf, but again, they're of the period.
> 
> dl
> 
> Jason Beard wrote:
>> I disagree...from the little I've heard, I recommend it to lovers of great music. 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 7:14:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>
>> The Spitooney set is one of the most common..although I've never found it in 
>> the box. In an album, a couple of times..as individual discs, a couple of 
>> times..and the Rhapsody issued separately, once.
>>
>> Some Vogues are even worth listening to. The Study in Blue isn't one of them. 
>> One that is is Enric Madriguera's "Minute Samba" which has a neat little fiddle 
>> & guitar chorus reminiscent of Grappelli & Django.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Jason Beard wrote:
>>> I SERIOUSLY doubt that the seller will receive thier asking price. If not, just wait them out.....eventually, they'll realize that their price is a dream, and just that...a dream. Let's cool our thoughts for a while, but BOY, would I love to own the phonograph! In this life, NEVER say never...and the seller will ship from Switzerland, is it? SERIOUS thoughts of ill-packing possible...broken discs...etc. I own one of the sets...by Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra...in the original "box". I paid the lavish price of (drumroll please....) $2.00. EXCELLENT condition...no scratches or scuffs. The illustration work on that set is incredible, ESPECIALLY on "Blue Skies".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: "fnarf at comcast.net" <fnarf at comcast.net>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 5:12:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>
>>> Dang, these "selling as a lot only, don't ask about pieces" people are stupid.
>>>
>>> The number of people who are hot to get ahold of a complete collection of Vogues, but currently have zero of them, has got to be zero. EVERYBODY with any interest in any part of this wants more parts, to fill his gaps, not the whole. 
>>>
>>> Some of those items are indeed spectacularly rare, and undoubtedly worth a lot. You get two guys with everything except those "ultra rare" items listed going against each other, and you've got yourself an auction. But they're not going to bid on a complete lot.
>>>
>>> The ONLY person who's going to bid on this is a dealer with deep pockets looking to break the set up, IF he looks at the list and sees a profit there as single items. This seller here could have that profit for himself if he had a brain.
>>>
>>> Won't sell.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:53:49 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>>> Subject: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
>>>
>>> Got $300,000 lying around? And that's the STARTING bid.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yl3xx4n
>>>
>>> dl
>>>