[78-L] Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks on Fresh Air

[David Sanderson]

On 11/6/2013 12:16 PM, victrola78s at aol.com wrote:
> On Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR her special guest is Vince
> Giordano of the Nighthawks fame. I have just heard "Sugar foot Stomp"
> as the opener. He is speaking of Eddie Cantor now. Fresh Air is
> repeated later at 7pm on many NPR stations. Good listening!
>
> Dennis "You'd Be Surprised" Forkel

Interesting to hear, yes. Vince is especially valuable for his 
encyclopedic knowledge of arrangers and arrangements.

The musical examples were OK, but somewhat dubious where they have tried 
to supply current singers. Can't they find anyone who can enunciate? I 
suspect that these people would never have been allowed to record in the 
1920's. But this is American TV, more or less inept as usual.

For the real thing we have recently found "Miss Fisher's Murder 
Mysteries," a 2012 Australian series, compliments of Netflix streaming, 
a continual source of unlikely gems. This is set in the late 1920's, 
Melbourne, Miss Fisher the stereotypical British upper class wealthy 
amateur detective, in her 20's, distinctly liberated, somewhat bohemian. 
The show has its own sound track, but when someone puts on a record it's 
the real thing, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, others 
less well known; about half the sound track music is also from real 
recordings. A liberating feeling, I find, to discover that someone has 
cared enough to use the Red Hot Peppers' "Doctor Jazz."

-- 
David Sanderson
East Waterford Maine
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