[78-L] Not So Quiet, Please - F. Marks?

[Julian Vein]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> One of my all-time favorite records is the 8000-series  Brunswick by Toots 
> Mondello and his Orch of  "Thanks For the Memory" b/w "Let That Be A Lesson 
> To You."  Besides being a great,  great record played by a group of some of 
> the very best NY studio players,  the arrangements are very distinctive and 
> really find a nice groove of what I'd call "mainstream swing."
> 
> Rust credits the arranger for these sides as Franklyn Marks,  and what I've 
> found out about his makes me want to learn more.  He worked for Disney at 
> one time,  and also for Stan Kenton.  Not only that  but he taught arranging 
> and musical theory,  and there is a nice on-line interview with Buddy 
> Collette who talks about going to school on the G-I bill after WW2, and how 
> much he learned from  Marks.
> 
> So...anybody have any other info about him...did he ever do stock 
> arrangements for dance bands in the 30s and 40s.  I don't recall seeing his 
> name printed on any of the thousands  I've seen but that may be because I 
> wasn't looking for it at the time...Jef Sultanof,  are you listening?  I'm 
> hoping  maybe you had some contact with Marks at one time
> 
> As always,  any info appreciated.  And...if you have that Modello record of 
> "Thanks for the Memories,"  do yourself a favor and play it...it was 
> recorded in late '37 and it's almost the last gasp of the "studio bands" 
> which were put together to cover pop tunes (I'm not counting cover stuff on 
> 18 Top Hits and the like).  And if that is about the last of it,  the studio 
> band concept sure ended with some great music.
> 
> 
> Thanks from
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
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The new ADBD lists him for 8 sessions/pages. I'll check them out in the 
morning.

      Julian Vein