[78-L] AUTUMN LEAVES
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 13 21:26:53 PDT 2011
Ooooog...boarding music....memories of being haunted by "Music Box Dancer"
(which I added to the CHFI playlist, and for which Frank Mills still hasn't
thanked me for helping him buy that house in Nassau)..
One Roger Williams track I actually liked was something called "Mr. Moszkowski".
dl
On 10/13/2011 11:57 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> I do happen to have Williams' Kapp recording of "Autumn Leaves" on 78 (Kapp K-116). Also, appropriately, a 45 of his recording of "Junk," which, sadly, describes the musical quality of most of his stuff. When I was in the inflight audio industry, his records were "gold" for our "boarding music" channel, along with James Last, the 101 Strings, and Mantovani.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:33:58 -0400
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] AUTUMN LEAVES
>>
>> Before he became Roger Williams, he recorded for MGM as Lou Weertz. I've never
>> run across anything of that nature. (Personally I could have lived happily
>> without ever hearing any Roger Williams, even on the rare occasions when he let
>> it be known that he could actually play, without all that cascading crap.
>> Ferrante and Teicher could also play and their experimental stuff like
>> Soundproof was brilliant, but it was Exodus that made them rich. Blechhhhhh.)
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 10/13/2011 11:16 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>> On 10/13/2011 1:31, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>>>> You people disappointed me. Roger Williams died five days ago and no one mentioned it (that I know of). He was 87. Yes, he did record 78s. AUTUMN LEAVES, HI-LILI HI-LO, TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS, and perhaps more, all on Kapp.
>>>> RayK
>>>>
>>> Glad you caught it. Many eyes.
>>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/08/MNFS1LF8DH.DTL
>>>
>>
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