[78-L] EDDIE FISHER

[Taylor Bowie]

Thanks for a great post,  Jack.  I really enjoy hearing stories  from 
musicians who were and are in the trenches,  so to speak.

I inferred from your post that to your ears Doris Day has no jazz influence 
in her singing.  I always thought she did esp. in those early movies and the 
early 50s Columbia records.  Perhaps I'm just taken with her amazing way 
with a song.  I think I like her version of No Moon At All better than any 
other...I still think it has a strong jazz tinge to it.

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JD" <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:46 AM
Subject: [78-L] EDDIE FISHER


>
> With the exception of Doris Day (because of her innate musicality) I've
> never had much interest in pop singers who don't have some (even a little)
> jazz influence in their singing. Fisher certainly had no jazz roots and 
> was
> well known among musicians to have problems with meter. I often wondered
> (assuming he was even aware of this problem) if this bothered him in any
> way. A singer (especially one as famous) with poor meter is akin to a
> sprinter with a broken leg.  Once, in his heyday I happened to see him 
> cause
> a live TV train wreck. He jumped some beats or bas and it wasn't pretty.
> Conductors in  situations like this really earn their salary in trying to
> keep it all together.especially in a live situation.
>
> Some 25 or so years ago I was booked on a gig at the Americana  in NYC at
> which he was to perform. The band's  initial reaction was that this should
> be interesting. Well, it certainly was, he came to the rehearsal looking
> like death warmed over and had little if anything to say, but he sounded
> really great and in control and had no problem whatsoever with meter and 
> the
> show went perfectly. It was encouraging and heartening to see that he'd
> finally gotten it all  together (albeit somewhat late) and that he didn't
> come on like a star. R.I.P. Eddie, you were cool after all.
>  Jack Daney
>
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