[78-L] Leroy Anderson query

[Cary Ginell]

There are many songs from "Goldilocks" that are not on the "New Music" LP. Anderson's instrumental recording of "Lady in Waiting," however, can be found on "Leroy Anderson Conducts" (Decca DL-8865) and on the Broadway cast album (Columbia Masterworks OL-5340, sung by Russell Nype and Pat Stanley.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 00:24:40 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Leroy Anderson query
> 
> Odd that neither piece is on DL 74335, "The New Music of Leroy Anderson", which 
> has 6 titles from Goldilocks. I don't have any answers.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 5/14/2011 12:03 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> >
> > This is a query from my brother Richard, a writer for the Los Angeles Times and annotator of a series of Naxos CDs on the music of Leroy Anderson. If anyone can help with his question, please let me know.
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> >
> >
> > Leroy Anderson recorded two different versions of "Lady In Waiting"
> >   from the musical "Goldilocks" – one an extended, elaborately-worked-out
> > Ballet Music, the other a shorter, more-to-the-point Waltz – on the
> > same day, June 3, 1959, but chose to release only the Ballet Music on
> > his album "Leroy Anderson Conducts Leroy Anderson." The Leroy Anderson
> > website flatly states that the Waltz was never released.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Or so the story goes.  I have just received a pink-label Decca promo
> > single, "Lady In Waiting/Pyramid Dance,"  that seriously challenges
> > this assumption.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The "Lady In Waiting" performance on the single appears to be an
> > alternate version of the Waltz that was given its "world premiere
> > recording" by Leonard Slatkin on Naxos in 2008. The timing on the
> > single is 2:52 – my stopwatch says  2:34 – much shorter than the 4:55
> > Ballet Music version on the album. The Anderson Bio-Bibliography lists
> > the timing of the Waltz as 3:26  (Slatkin's version is 3:28). The
> > record number of the single is 9-30979, the master number of "Lady in
> > Waiting" is 107,401.  The MCA Master book lists the album version of
> > "Lady In Waiting" as 107,400.  The MCA book also has a release date for
> > the single, Oct. 5, 1959, but that doesn't guarantee that it was
> > actually issued.  It may have been pressed only as a promo, and then
> > cancelled for commercial release.  It's possible that Anderson himself
> > – a hyper-self-critical composer – made the decision to cancel the
> > single.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > What I'm wondering is; does anyone know of a commercial, black-label
> > Decca copy of this single?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Richard Ginell
> >
> >
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