tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103541332024-03-07T15:44:19.272-08:00People vs. Dr. ChilledairA Mostly Mirthful Blog of Music and MiscellanyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1473125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-71057353128965629962016-09-09T10:48:00.001-07:002016-09-15T14:21:33.067-07:00THE LAST HURRAH: JAZZ AND POP SINGING AND THE ONSLAUGHT OF ROCKIT'S HERE 9/15/16<br />
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OVERVIEWS OF THE FOLLOWING VOCALISTS<br />
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<b>SINGERS</b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">A:</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></i></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Bea
Abbott, Bonnie Alden, Laurie Allyn, Anamari, April Ames, Gayle
Andrews, Charlie Applewhite, Johnny April, Jean Ash, Edyth Aymes</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">B:</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
Ozzie Bailey, Eugenie Baird, Don Barbour, Gwen Bari, Charlene
Bartley, Fifi Barton, Jeanne Baxter, Flo Bennett, Linda Bennett, Bob
Benton, Frances Bergen, Connie Berry, Bill Black, Janet Blair, Betty
Blake, Shannon Bolin, Janet Brace, Carol Brent, Mary Lou Brewer,
Donna Brooks, Bobby Brookes, Carol Bruce, Marian Bruce, Joyce Bryant,
Mel Bryant, Kenny Burrell</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">C: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Thelma
Carpenter, Jack Carroll, Mindy Carson, Paula Castle, Babs Caulkins,
Inez Cavanaugh, Karen Chandler, (The Other) Ray Charles, Sue Childs,
Sandra Church, Dottie Clark, Ceil Clayton, Rocky Cole, Jill Corey,
Carole Creveling, Austin Cromer, Juanita Cruse, Bill Cunningham, Irma
Curry, Marlene Cord, Helen Curtis</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">D: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Pat
Dahl, Dorothy Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge, Chris Dane, Anita Darien,
Bill Darnel, Cora Lee Day, Ilene Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Nick de
Francis, Nick De Lano, Sylvia de Sayles, Bob Di Neri, Kenny Dorham,
Diana Dors, Norma Douglas, Donna Drake, Doris Drew, Dorothy Dunn</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">E:</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
Bob Ellis, Ken Errair, Sue Evans</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">F: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Jules
Farmer, Lucien Farrar, Talya Ferro, Toni Fisher, Johnny Flamingo,
Rhonda Fleming</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">G: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Kevin
Gavin, Jeannie Gayle, Ernie George, Frances Gershwin, Althea Gibson,
Leo Gooden, Honi Gordon, Dori Ann Gray, Paula Greer</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">H: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Paula
Haliday, Becky Hall, Flo Handy, Bev Hanson, Rose Hardaway, Martha Lou
Harp, Ann Hathaway, Bill Hawkins, Cathy Hayes, Martha Hayes, Richard
Hayes, Pat Healy, Don Heller, Tommy Hendrix, Larry Hovis, Dave
Howard, Dori Howard, Gene Howard, Earl Humphreys</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">J: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Beverly
Jenkins, Inez Jones, Jeri Jorden, Crystal Joy</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">K: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lois
Kahn, Bea Kalmus, Deno Kannes, Kathy Keegan, Ken & Beverly,
George Kirby, Pat Kirby, Lisa Kirk, Danny Knight, Sunny Knight,
Katherine Kovar</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">L: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Fran
Lacey, Herb Lance, Vicki Lane, John LaSalle, Bill Lawrence, Sunny
Lawrence, Dee Lawson, Linda Lawson, Mamie Lee, Marjorie Lee, Perri
Lee, Barbara Long, Tina Louise, Cherie Lynn, Molly Lyons</span></span></div>
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Ann McCormack, Marie McDonald, Patty McGovern, Nancy Malcombe, Lynn
Marino, Micki Marlo, Mexie Marlowe, Janice Mars, Phyllis Marshall,
Norma Mendoza, Meri Ellen, Joan Merrill, Linda Merrill, Toni Merrill,
Marci Miller, Debby Moore, Marilyn Moore, Shelley Moore, Terry Morel,
Mary Mulligan</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">N: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Don
Nelson, Dick Noel, Pat Northrop</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">O: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Erin
O'Brien, Pat O'Day, Jerry Orbach</span></span></div>
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Johnny Pace, Janis Paige, Peter Palmer, Jacy Parker, Freddie Paris,
Cavril Payne, Roberta Peck, Kay Penton, Jacqueline Peters, Gil
Peterson</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,</span></span><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lovelady
Powell, Nicki Price</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">R:</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">
Ren</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">é</span></span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">e
Raff,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">
</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Lorry
Raine, Toni Rami, Annita Ray, Bernadine Read, Carol Reed, Gale
Robbins, Rita Robbins, Tina Robin, Chet Roble, Eileen Rodgers, Eileen
Romey, Frank Rosalino, Ami Rouselle, June Rudell</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">S: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Sheila
M. Sanders, Vera Sanford, Patricia Scot, Chaney Scott, Lizabeth
Scott, Peggy Serra, Sue Sharon, Sharlene Sharp, Beverly Shaw, Serena
Shaw, Corky Shayne, Reed Sherman, Yvonne Shubert, Lee Simmons, Lu Ann
Simms, Danny Small, Marla Smith, Gloria Smyth, Ann Sothern, Carol
Stevens, Terri Stevens, Helyne Stewart, Ralph Strain, Gene Stridel,
Elaine Stritch, Inga Swenson</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">T: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Norene
Tate, Lynne Taylor, Claudia Thompson, Maureen Tomson, Constance
Towers, Jean Turner</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">V: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Joe
Valino, Rudy Valentyne, Monique Van Vooren, Connie Vaughn, Gwen
Verdon</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">W: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Bruce
Walton III, Ann Williams, Easy Williams, Joyce Williams, Mae
Williams, Marie Wilson, Pat Windsor, Wyoma Winters, Gloria Wood,
Ilene Woods, Nancy Wright, Nat Wright, Gretchen Wyler</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Y: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Emily
Yancy, Susannah Young</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Z: </span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Darlene
Zito</span></span> </div>
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<i><b> </b>JAZZ AND POP SINGERS AND THE ONSLAUGHT OF ROCK"</i></h3>
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BEA ABBOTT <span style="line-height: 150%;">1958 </span><i style="line-height: 150%;">The Too, Too Marvelous Bea </i><span style="line-height: 150%;">Westminster SWB 7035) Abbott mini-bio in <i>The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singers and the Onslaught of Rock</i></span><br />
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</b></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">1957/2006 </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><i>Paradise </i></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">V.S.O.P. 111 </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Allyn mini-bio in </span><i style="line-height: 24px;">The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singers and the Onslaught of Rock</i></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 24px;">APRILAMES<i> 1957 Strike a Match Gene Norman Presents GNP –32 </i></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">Ames mini-bio in </span><i style="line-height: 24px;">The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singers and the Onslaught of Rock</i><br />
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</i></span><span style="color: black;">1964</span> <span style="color: black;">A</span><span style="color: black;"><i>namari </i></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">Atlantic SD 8092 Anamari </span><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">mini-bio in </span><i style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singers and the Onslaught of Rock</i></div>
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</b></i></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">1958 </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><i>Love
Affair </i></span><span style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">Design DLP-57 Applewhite </span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">mini-bio in </span><i style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;">The Last Musical Hurrah: Jazz and Pop Singers and the Onslaught of Rock</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill Reed is a journalist and writer whose many articles on show business, the arts, and popular music have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including <i>Rolling Stone</i>, the <i>San Francisco Examiner</i> and <i>International Documentary</i>. He has also worked as a video jack-of-all-trades for the Criterion Collection, produced many jazz recordings for Japan and authored or co-authored the following books:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">FROM THE: FOREWORD</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If Tony Bennett is correct when he proclaims that the genre of music focused on herein—the likes of Berlin, Porter, Kern, Gershwin—will eventually come to be seen as “the classical music of the 20th Century,” then perhaps even some of this music’s more recherché practitioners, along with the Sinatras and Fitzgeralds, could conceivably end up one day as the subject of doctoral dissertations (Burthen and Vibrato in Late-Period Babs Caulkins). The rubric under which this neo-classical music has come to be categorized in more recent times is Great American Songbook. The cause of these artists’ anonymity is spelled out in the dilemma of late fifties jazz singer Beverly Kenney who co-wrote and performed a song entitled “I Hate Rock and Roll,” and who finally committed suicide at the untimely age of twenty-eight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Singer Jennie Smith saw the kid music boulder bearing down on “the scene” and got out while the getting was good. She retired circa ‘65. Her colleague Teddi King bravely, but barely, soldiered on until dying of lupus in 1977. Of those three examples, Beverly Kenney was clearly the most obviously done in by the tsunami of rock music. Only those artists who were well-established by the time of the rock revolution—along with the exception of Barbra Streisand—were able to remain afloat, i.e. Cole, Sinatra, Fitzgerald</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">. . . . . . . . . . .</span><br />
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</span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><i>Paradise </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Born
Didi Pierce, Sequim, WA. One of her first professional engagements
was at the memorable Crystal Palace in St. Louis.</span></span><br />
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twelve tracks on Laurie Allyn’s LP, arranged by Marty Paich and
featuring the likes of Al Viola, Red Mitchell and Pete Candoli, were
recorded in Hollywood on October 2nd, 4th and 5th, 1957. But no
sooner had the record’s producer<span style="color: #545454;">—</span>also
the owner of Mode Records<span style="color: #545454;">—</span>
finished recording the sessions than he had the sad duty of telling
Allyn that he would not be able to release her recording because Mode
was folding. This was to have been Mode Records #130. Allyn went
back home to Texas to tend to an ailing mother, never to perform
again. And this wonderful recording sat on the shelves until the
current owner of the Mode catalog decided to give it a first time
issue. . .nearly fifty years after it was recorded. A perfect example
of “Better late than never.” Allyn was also included in my 2006 Japanese One Shot
Wonders presentation before the Tokyo Vocal Jazz Appreciation Society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Songs: “All I Need is You,” “You Go to My Head,” “Paradise,”
“Surrey With the Fringe on Top,” “Easy Living,” “You're So
Bad for Me,” “The More I See You,” “I'll Never Smile Again,”
“So In Love,” “That's What a Woman is For, “Where Are You,”
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A: </b><span style="color: red;">Bea Abbott</span>, Bonnie Alden, Laurie Allyn, Anamari, Gayle Andrews, Johnny April, Jean Ash, Edith Aymes</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Shared Air: My Six-Decade Interface</i> <i>With Celebrity</i> is an overview of the many noted personages with whom the author has had direct contact over the years in all manner of circumstances . . . both colorful and everyday. "Dramatis Personae" include: Charles Laughton, Robert Blake, Little Jimmy Scott, Nico, Severn Darden, Tim Hardin, Dusty Springfield, Chris Connor, John F. Kennedy, Lizabeth Scott, Joe Franklin, Elizabeth Montgomery, Djuna Barnes, Myrna Loy, Billy Wilder, Shelley Winters, Chet Baker, Jo Stafford, Charlie Mingus, Carl Van Vechten, Frank Zappa, Salvador Dali, Dame Joan Collins, Barbara Stanwyck, Neal Cassady, Chuck Berry, Blossom Dearie, Miles Davis, Gore Vidal, Sally Marr, Charles Manson, Johnny Carson, Dave Frishberg, Van Dyke Parks, Annie Ross, Sarah Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Bette Midler, Walter Shenson, Tuesday Weld, Barbara Harris . . .and dozens more</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the early days of minstrelsy to Black Broadway, this book is the story of African American entertainment as seen through the eyes of its most famous as well as some of its most obscure practitioners. The book forms a chronological arc that moves from the beginning of African American participation in show business up through the present age. Will Marion Cook and Billy McClain are discovered in action at the very dawn of black parity in the entertainment field; six chapters later, the young Sammy Davis Jr. breaks through the invisible ceiling that has kept those before him "in their place." In between, the likes of Valaida Snow, Nora Holt, Billy Strayhorn, Hazel Scott, Dinah Washington, and others are found making contributions to the fight against racism both in and out of "the business." (also Kindle)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the early '50's critics attacked <i>Blackboard Jungle</i> and<i> Rock Around the Clock</i> as “lewd immoral and </span><span style="font-size: large;">disgusting.” Now [1982], 30 years later, ROCK ON FILM explores the far-reaching impact of rock films on all our lives. (co-authored by David Ehrenstein) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Fine Romance: My Lifelong Affair With Jazz Singers and Singing</i> is a distillation of some of the many articles on vocal jazz that the author has written. The content covers a wide variety of artists from ultra-obscure "One Shot Wonders" to the legendary. Chapters include: Sue Raney, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Irene Kral, Nat King Cole, Chris Connor, Kay Thompson, Pinky Winters, Susannah McCorkle, and Judy Garland</span>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-38630378482016536732016-01-01T16:55:00.000-08:002016-03-02T12:40:37.029-08:00BINGO CROSBYANAHere at Landfill Press, poster (22 x 28) on the wall for the first solo Bing Crosby film, <i>I Surrender Dear.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;">In 2001 I wrote a long career article in Japan's Record Collectors magazine about former Capitol Records head, Livingston. I interviewed him in the Hollywood domicile that he shared with his wife, actress Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard). Here's some of what he told me about his association, beginning in 1950, with singer Yma Sumac.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;">"I can tell you a story. I had a man who was h</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.4667px;">ead of the New York office. He said somebody brought me in this woman, a Peruvian Indian, who had a 4 l/2 octave range. She has an amazing voice quality. She doesn't speak any English. I don't know what to do with her. He sent me some tapes. There was no music on them, nothing that you could put your finger on. Somebody tired to do something with her on another label, but nothing had happened. She came to California and I met with her and her husband, Moises Vivanco, who was a musician and a guitar player. He spoke English. I said, I'd like to try something with her and we made a deal. I hired the composer/arranger Les Baxter. And I said, 'I want you to work with me and her and see if we can come up with something that will be appealing.' She couldn't read music, we didn't know where to start. We had her sing all the various things she did which had no form of any kind. Les sat down and wrote a score based on what she was singing. Then I went into the studio with them and an orchestra and we began recording the whole thing live and literally we were dealing with pieces of tape that were [hold out his hands one foot from each other] this long. We'd get something, then say okay, then go from there. (Sumac continued in "Shared Air: My Six Decade Interface With Celebrity"</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-35494894717851778532015-09-28T17:50:00.000-07:002015-09-28T18:26:25.571-07:00HOT OFF THE PRESS! "SHARED AIR" !!!!!!!! by BILL REED<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><b>MICHAEL
DEES</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i><b>THE
DREAM I DREAMED</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><u><b>REVIEWS</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">April
18, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Midwest
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Giving
out a set of all originals, Dees will have you scratching your head
wondering where he’s been hiding all this time…Solid stuff
throughout, this is real deal classy stuff that never fails to
impress. Well done.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">JAZZED
MEDIA</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><b>MICHAEL DEES/Dream I
Dreamed</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">: An old school
jazz vocalist that’s made a good life over the last 40+ years makes
one of his rare steps to the fore and shows he’s had the goods up
his sleeve all along. With a look that could stereotype him as
a Sinatra manqué, the only thing the two have in common is white
hair and swing. Giving out a set of all originals, Dees will
have you scratching your head wondering where he’s been hiding all
this time, especially if you’ve got that jazz vocal jones.
Solid stuff throughout, this is real deal classy stuff that never
fails to impress. Well done.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><a href="http://www.midwestrecord.com/" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">www.midwestrecord.com</a></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">April 24, 2015</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jazz Profiles by Steve Cerra</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“Michael Dees is an accomplished
artist who has been honing his art for almost half a century and
it shows on <i>The Dream I Dreamed.”</i></span></div>
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<a href="http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2015/04/michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2015/04/michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html</a></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">April 24, 2015</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">AXS by Paula Edelstein</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“Overall, all of the original
compositions tell a story of Michael Dees’ exceptional prowess as a
singer/songwriter. With <em>The Dream I Dreamed,</em> he achieves the
level of artistry he introduced on his Capitol Records recordings and
"One Single Rose."</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.axs.com/the-dream-i-dreamed-by-michael-dees-now-available-on-the-jazzed-media--50530" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.axs.com/the-dream-i-dreamed-by-michael-dees-now-available-on-the-jazzed-media--50530</a></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">April 29, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Music Man Blog by Robert Nicosia</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black;">"Multi-talented Michael Dees wrote all 14
songs on the CD, and his compositions are nothing short of brilliant.
Michael writes in the finest tradition of the "Great American
Songbook". His melodies are powerful and his lyrics are alive
and full of passion...songwriting doesn't get any better than this!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.musicmanblog.com/2015/04/cd-review-michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.musicmanblog.com/2015/04/cd-review-michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">April
30, 2015</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #00000a;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jersey
Jazz by Joe Lang (June issue)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #444444;">“<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Dream I Dreamed</i></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
is a damned fine vocal album.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>MICHAEL
DEES </b></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">recorded
a few albums in the 1960s and played gigs around the country, most
notably on the Playboy Clubs circuit. By the 1970s, he turned
his attention to singing on soundtracks, and writing and recording
advertising jingles. In recent years, he has been doing more
live gigs, and now has released his first album since 2001, </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>The
Dream I Dreamed</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
(Jazzed Media – 1071). The program is comprised of 14
original songs with music and lyrics by Dees. The songs are
very much in the tradition of mainstream pop standards, and are well
sung by Dees. He has a trio of Terry Trotter on piano, Chuck
Berghofer on bass and Steve Schaeffer on drums, with occasional
contributions by several reed and brass players. This is no
mere vanity album. Dees is a fine singer who reads lyrics well,
and knows what swing is all about. He has written serviceable
songs that he puts over convincingly. </span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The
Dream I Dreamed</i></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
is a damned fine vocal album, the kind that used to come along
regularly, but is the exception in today’s music market. It
is a refreshing collection that deserves a wide audience.
(</span></span><a href="http://www.jazzedmedia.com/"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">www.JazzedMedia.com</span></span></a><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">May
11, 2015</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Bebop
Spoken Here by Debra M.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #333333;">“<span style="font-size: 10pt;">The
collection is definitely worth a listen for fans of the
afore-mentioned mature, male jazz vocalists, and for those young
pretenders seeking to master the craft.</span></span>”</span></div>
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<a href="http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2015/05/cd-review-michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://lance-bebopspokenhere.blogspot.com/2015/05/cd-review-michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed.html</a></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">May 18, 2015</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">By Rex Reed</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: black;">“The
new Michael Dees recording revives my faith in the kind of style and
artistry that has all but faded from the quality of life we used to
know, and rarely leaves my sound system even for bathroom breaks.
What a fresh-air revelation in the polluted ozone!” ~ Rex Reed</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">May
24, 2015</b></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jazz Mostly by Bruce Crowther</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“Although Michael displays maturity
with his interpretation of the lyrics he sings (here his own –
elsewhere those of others), his lithe and fresh vocal sound is
something many will love and certainly belies whatever age it might
say on his passport.”</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="http://jazzmostly.com/jazz-cd-reviews-late-may-2015" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://jazzmostly.com/jazz-cd-reviews-late-may-2015</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>MICHAEL DEES </b><i><b>The Dream I
Dreamed (Jazzed Media JM 1071)</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Although only recently becoming a
familiar name to all who love to hear good songs well sung, Michael
Dees has been around for a long time and heard by unknowing millions.
During these many years in the business, dating back to the late
1960s, he was often heard singing on film and television soundtracks.
He sang What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life on the soundtrack of
the 1969 film, The Happy Ending, and the title song for the 1970
film, A Walk In The Spring Rain; he appeared on The Steve Allen Show;
and he recorded albums for Dot Records and Capitol Records, the
latter including 1968’s Talk To Me Baby. In later decades, Michael
was heard on the soundtrack of Sabrina (1995) and he provided the
singing voice, performing One For My Baby And One More For The Road,
for actor Ray Liotta who played the role of Frank Sinatra in The Rat
Pack (1998).m dees cd He also recorded a fine album in 2002 for Mack
Records, One Single Rose, but that was a dozen or so years ago and
since then only those lucky enough to catch him live at jazz and
supper clubs in and around Los Angeles and Palm Springs (where he now
lives) have heard him. Now, there is a new album, recorded in late
2014, that shows another facet of this remarkable artist’s talent.
Although his past performances have found Michael singing the great
standards, he is also an accomplished songwriter and that particular
talent is on vivid display on The Dream I Dreamed, all the songs on
which are his compositions. And good songs they are, too, ranging
through romantic ballads, I Miss You, Where Love Goes, I’m Home,
and the especially attractive I Stay, to gently bouncing swingers, In
A Moment, So Crazy For You, Back In New Orleans. Michael is
accompanied by front-rank studio and jazz musicians: pianist Terry
Trotter, bassist Chuck Berghofer, and drummer Steve Schaeffer, with
guest trumpeters Steve Huffsteter and Sal Marquez, tenor saxophonists
Chuck Manning, Bob Sheppard and Doug Webb, and percussionist Don
Williams. Although Michael displays maturity with his interpretation
of the lyrics he sings (here his own – elsewhere those of others),
his lithe and fresh vocal sound is something many will love and
certainly belies whatever age it might say on his passport.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">June 2, 2015</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Blogcritics
by Jack Goodstein</b></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Whether
it is the swinging opener, “In a Moment,” the Dixieland shout-out
“Back in New Orleans,” or the yearning ballad that gives the
album its title, these are songs that call to mind another era.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://blogcritics.org/music-reviews-jazz-singers-times-four-rebecca-dumaine-michael-dees-steve-cromity-joanna-wallfisch/"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 11pt;">http://blogcritics.org/music-reviews-jazz-singers-times-four-rebecca-dumaine-michael-dees-steve-cromity-joanna-wallfisch/</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 11pt;">MICHAEL
DEES / THE DREAM I DREAMED</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #333333;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Michael
Dees has been around. The singer is a seasoned pro. He has the kind
of voice that made a legend of Frank Sinatra, but while Sinatra is a
household name, Dees has a name few outside the business have ever
heard of. And that is unfortunate – the man can sing. It may be
that he came along at the wrong time. It may be that his retro sound
is out of step with the directions contemporary music has music
taken. Whatever the reason, it is shameful that he isn’t better
known.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">His
new album</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The
Dream I Dreamed</span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,
only his second release since the 2001</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One
Single Rose,</span></span></span></em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">might
do the job if given half a chance. The 14-tune set of original songs
highlights both his vocal stylings and his traditional songwriting.
His songs, while they lack the kind of familiarity that makes the old
standards warm the hearts of the sentimental among us, have the vibe
of past decades. Whether it is the swinging opener, “In a Moment,”
the Dixieland shout-out “Back in New Orleans,” or the yearning
ballad that gives the album its title, these are songs that call to
mind another era. That will be their glory for some audiences, and
their feet of clay for others.”</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">June 4, 2015</b></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Interview with Cyrus Webb on
Blogtalkradio</b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">June 12, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Lajazz.com by Dee Dee McNeil</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lajazz.com/blog19.cfm?ID=473038" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.lajazz.com/blog19.cfm?ID=473038</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>Michael
Dees - The Dream I Dreamed</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><i>Michael
Dees, vocals: Terry Trotter, piano; Chuck Berghofer, bass; Steve
Schaeffer, drums; Steve Huffsteter, trumpet & flugelhorn; Chuck
Manning, tenor sax; Sal Marquez, trumpet; Bob Sheppard, tenor sax &
clarinet; Doug Webb, tenor sax; Don Williams, percussion.</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /><br />I
put this CD on my player for the third time. Michael Dees is smooth,
sexy and addictive. Not only is he an outstanding vocalist,
comparably a cross between Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, but he is
a magnificent composer. Dees knows how to craft a song, both
melodically and lyrically. When he sings his original compositions,
he puts unequivocal emotion and excitement into the music, using both
appropriate intonation and emotional gusto. Back in the 1960's
Michael Dees was voted "Best New Male Singer" at the
International Popular Song Festival in Rio de Janeiro, followed by a
recording deal with Capitol Records. They released two albums
featuring Dees, and he began to get a reputation as a singer who
could best represent a songwriter's work. Alan & Marilyn Bergman
agreed, enjoying his memorable interpretation of their songs. When
television, commercials and movie soundtrack people got wind of him,
Dees began making a lucrative living, even singing as the voice of
Frank Sinatra in the HBO "Rat Pack" movie. He was sought
out as a soundtrack vocalist and sang, wrote and/or produced numerous
jingles for radio and TV.<br /><br />Now, in the prime of his creativity,
Dees offers us a richly produced and composed compact disc of
beautiful, original songs, with nearly an hour of expressively
delivered stories of love and loss. Dees vocal acrobatics and
expressively sung compositions bring great joy and entertainment.
Here are a lovely bouquet of songs offered generously, that should be
recorded over and over again by the best in the business.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">June 15, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Jazz History Online by Thomas Cunniffe</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.jazzhistoryonline.com/One_For_The_Men.html" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.jazzhistoryonline.com/One_For_The_Men.html</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“Fans of the Sinatra school and those
interested in the continuing evolution of the Great American Songbook
will enjoy this album.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><b>MICHAEL DEES: “THE DREAM I
DREAMED”</b> (Jazzed Media 1071)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">In <a href="http://www.fosse.com/features/fosse_an_introduction.html">Bob
Fosse</a>’s semi-autobiographical 1979 film, “<a href="http://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz">All
That Jazz</a>”, the Fosse character Joe Gideon is mounting a new
Broadway musical. He is saddled with “Take Off With Us”, a simply
awful airplane-themed ditty loaded with innocuous sexual references.
The Fosse/Gideon choreography starts as a typical bouncy
showstopper, but then the group goes into a fantasy sequence called
“Air-Rotica”. The now semi-nude dancers are split into three
couples: straight, gay and lesbian. The backers are shocked and the
composer puts his head in his hands and mutters, “Now Sinatra will
never record it”. The deliberately bad “Take Off With Us” never
had a chance with Ol’ Blue Eyes, but <a href="http://www.sinatra.com/">Frank
Sinatra</a> might well have recorded many of the original songs
on <a href="http://desertentertainer.com/articles/2014/04/10/entertainment/desert_stars/doc52f3bab41a218409395535.txt">Michael
Dees</a>’ new CD, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dream-I-Dreamed-Michael-Dees/dp/B00VA32I6U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1434392863&sr=8-2&keywords=The+Dream+I+Dreamed">The
Dream I Dreamed</a>”. The opening track, “In a Moment” is
loaded with energy, engaging lyrics, and a great set of changes
for<a href="http://www.dougwebb.us/">Doug Webb</a>’s tenor sax
solo. Dees’ vocal delivery is straight out of Sinatra with lots of
machismo, and a little touch of lounge-lizard growl. The similarities
are even more pronounced on the ballad “Look at Me” where Dees
evokes the late-night feel of Sinatra’s “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wee-Small-Hours-Frank-Sinatra/dp/B000006OHD/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434392936&sr=8-1&keywords=Sinatra+Wee+Small+Hours">Wee
Small Hours</a>” album. Dees has superb diction, and for the most
part, exceptional pitch control (the exception is “I Miss You”,
but despite the wobbly delivery, the composition is so good that I’m
sure other singers will be eager to cover it). And unlike most
singer-composers, Dees is quite willing to depart from his original
melodies to create new melodic variations. Dees is backed by a superb
band, including <a href="http://www.mamajazz.org/pages/biotrotter.html">Terry
Trotter</a> (piano), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berghofer">Chuck
Berghofer</a>(bass), <a href="http://www.lastudiomusicians.info/steveschaeffer.htm">Steve
Schaeffer</a> (drums), with appearances by saxophonists Doug
Webb, <a href="http://www.chuckmanning.com/">Chuck Manning</a> and
<a href="http://bobsheppard.net/">Bob Sheppard</a>, trumpeters Sal
Marquez and <a href="http://www.stevehuffsteter.com/">Steve
Huffsteter</a>, and percussionist <a href="http://www.donaldjwilliams.com/Donald%20Williams/Welcome.html">Don
Williams</a>. Like these instrumentalists, Dees has logged many hours
in the Hollywood recording studios. His jazz discography has been
rather spotty, with a handful of LPs in the mid-60s, and a 2001 CD
for Mack Avenue. But as one of his new songs states “You were a
long time comin’, but you were worth the wait”. Fans of the
Sinatra school and those interested in the continuing evolution of
the Great American Songbook will enjoy this album. </span></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">July 3, 2015</b></div>
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<b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">JazzWeekly by George Harris</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.jazzweekly.com/2015/07/croonersgloria-reuben-perchance-to-dream-peter-oprisko-lost-in-a-kiss/" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.jazzweekly.com/2015/07/croonersgloria-reuben-perchance-to-dream-peter-oprisko-lost-in-a-kiss/</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #555555;">Michael Dees ups
the ante here as he not only sings but writes the songs here. He
teams up with a simpatico rhythm team of Terry Trotter/p, Chuck
Berghofer/b and Steve Schaeffer/dr along with guest saxes, trumpets
and percussion. He’s able to deliver vocal clarity and style
on high energy tunes such as “A Long Time Comin’” as well as a
clever “So Crazy For You” that includes an excitedly outside
tenor solo by Chuck Manning. He sways with the blues on ”Back
In New Orleans” with Bob Sheppard’s clarinet but is also able to
sound intimate in a trio setting on “I Miss You” and gets shadowy
on “Where Love Goes.” He sounds street wise on the soulful bopper
“Am I Supposed to Care?” along with Steve Huffsteter’s trumpet
and goes gloriously despairing on “Look At Me.” This guy sounds
like he means it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">By Nick
Mondello, All About Jazz</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #222222;">“…throughout
the recording Dees shows he is a superior interpreter of lyric and
has a marvelous grasp on the interplay between word, note, volume and
delivery ("I Miss You"). Where's there's love lost, you
hear the yearning in his voice ("I Stay"). On his up-tempo
material ("In a Moment," "So Crazy for You,"
"Truly Love") Dees swings…”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-dream-i-dreamed-michael-wayne-deese-jazzed-media-review-by-nicholas-f-mondello.php" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-dream-i-dreamed-michael-wayne-deese-jazzed-media-review-by-nicholas-f-mondello.php</a></div>
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<span style="color: #00000a;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">August
2, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">By <b>Maria Miaoulis of Celebrity Café.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>“With <i>The
Dream I Dreamed, </i>this seasoned vet has proven why he’s
continued to thrive in the music world all these years. Just like
wine, Michael Dees’ artistry only gets better with age.”</span></div>
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<a href="http://thecelebritycafe.com/reviews/2015/08/michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed-album-review" style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">http://thecelebritycafe.com/reviews/2015/08/michael-dees-dream-i-dreamed-album-review</a></div>
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<span style="color: #00000a;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">September
11, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00000a;"><b style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">O’s
Place Jazz Newsletter by D. Oscar Groomes</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“This quarter we reviewed a lot of
cabaret vocalists and a few crooners but none as distinct as Michael
Dees. He is a polished veteran that knows how to swing and more
importantly, he knows how to sing (vs. speak) the lyrics. Listening
to Dees soar on "Look At Me", we enjoy his range and
dynamics, a sample of what we hear throughout the session. The icing
on the cake is that Michael brings all new, original material. Terry
Trotter (p), Chuck Berghofer (b) and Steve Schaeffer's (d) are a
solid rhythm section anchors a first rate band that features guest
artists on brass and percussion. The result is a performance that
you'll want to repeat!”</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-16927660395455071592015-09-07T07:51:00.005-07:002015-09-13T08:00:03.488-07:00SINGER ANITA GRAVINE ON THE RADIO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">In advance of Gravine's forthcoming new CD, musician / radio host Bill Kirchner salutes vocalist Anita Gravine. Musicians backing the singer on her recordings heard here include Mike Abene, Gary Burton, Tom Harrell, George Mraz, Jerry Dodgian, Akira Tana, Mickey Gravine and more. And while you're at it, check out some of Anita's other Youtube contributions. Full Gravine discography at </span><a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" href="http://anitagravine.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://anitagravine.com/">http://anitagravine.com/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-20235934729238193472015-09-05T08:23:00.000-07:002015-09-05T08:24:13.123-07:00INSIDE MARA LYNN BROWN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">MOVE OVER DAISY CLOVER AND MAKE WAY FOR TODAY'S BIRTHDAY HONOREE, MARA LYNN BROWN (1943 - ) Here's a bio that I purloined from a youtube upload:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">"""Mara Lynn Brown was born in Chicago in 1943. She was just-turned-sixteen, and an intense student of dance when the famous Maurice Chevalier accidentally discovered her amazing singing talent, during his brief appearance in Chicago's famed Empire Room. An evening out with her mother at a ringside table at Chevalier's personal appe<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">arance: the veteran showman soon spotted this young "Gigi" in the audience and was so taken with her gamin-like beauty that he called her on stage, and, despite her insistence that she was no singer, induced her to join him in a duet. Urged on, Mara next sang a solo and the audience broke into wild, cheering applause - and the birth of an exciting new singing star had come about! The years followed with engagements at some of America's top supper clubs, and television and radio appearances.""" . . . And suds of singles and two LPs from one of which comes this Previn-Previn song from "Inside Daisy Clover. Come to think of it, Brown's real life story isn't all that dissimilar from the fictional Daisy Clover. No time now to track her down, but here's hoping all continues to go well for Ms. Brown. Check out some of her other youtube tracks. They're reallll good. HEAR HERE http://tinyurl.com/nff8wh3</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-52418997591961981942015-09-04T08:47:00.003-07:002015-09-04T08:48:36.529-07:00IT'S TOMMY WOLF'S BIRTHDAY (1925-1979)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">As hard as I try to avoid doing so, it seems pert nigh impossible not to append that hoary adjectival overkill LEGENDARY to his name. Among Tommy Wolf's other co-creations with lyricist Fran Landesman are two bonafide somewhat late-blooming additions to the classics section of the Great American Songbook, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most," [<a href="http://tinyurl.com/nsoub3q">HEAR HERE</a></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">]</b><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">and "All the Sad Young Men." And there dozens of lesser known ones from the duo that are jus</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">t as memorable: "You Smell So Good," "Listen Little Girl," "Season in the Sun," etc. many of which have been covered by the equally, uh, well, ummm, legendary performing duo of Jackie and Roy. And on the Bill Black CD that I produced for Japan, there is a Wolfsong (with lyrics by the elusive Wayne Arnold rarity "So It's Spring." Wolf was nearly as gifted a lyricist (on the rare occasions when he acted in that capacity); also a fine pianist and vocalist. In 2003 I played a part in overseeing the reissue of singer Bobbi Rogers' albu, "Tommy Wolf Can Really Hang You Up the Most."At the very last minute, when Wolf's widow/publisher couldn't (make that "wouldn't) supply the songs' lyrics for the CD booklet, I copied them while auditing the recording. At first, it proved a bit slow-going and tedious, but finally, when I realized just how good (was there ever any doubt?) Wolf's music and Fran Landesman's lyrics are, I realllly got into the process of playing lines over and over again to get it just right (they really hold up even under the closest of scrutiny).</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-68669025434335255042015-09-03T08:00:00.000-07:002015-09-03T08:00:21.728-07:00WAYYYYY BENEATH RADAR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I've been known to be called The Diva Detective due to my ability to track down salient facts regarding female (and male, too) jazz singers. Who why what where & when kind of info. And, in fact, I've only been totally stumped once, i.e. whatever happened to Kay Penton?; did she run off into the wilds with Rafael Trujillo or not? Somewhat curiously, the chanteuse in question, Claudia Thompson, seems to've been L.A.-based. At least that is where her one (1) album was recorded. Also making her total un-Googleability (except for multitudinous net entries to the LP) a bit perplexing are the pedigrees of the players, i.e. Barney Kessel, Benny Carter, Joe Mondragon, Alvy Stoller, Dick Nash, Red Mitchell et al. Topping off the curious lack of remembrance of Thompson is the absolute wonderfulness of the singing AND the songs (a nice mix of the well-known, i.e Body and Soul - and the unknown: Sam Coslow's The Morning After).Every year or so I get bitten in the behind by the riddle and I become (to mix metaphors) like a dog with a bone (digging thru old Billboards and L.A, Times, etc.) Thompson is so low-keyed on most of the tracks she almost makes Julie London, in comparison, sound, like Sophie Tucker. Thompson just sings the song and goes home. Anyone out there in Great American Songbookland have any thoughts re: this riddle?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-48954595144766939382015-08-31T07:53:00.001-07:002015-08-31T07:55:33.868-07:00The real FACE IN THE CROWD<div style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">It's Arthur Godfrey birthday time on 8/31. He'd be 107. Why do we still remember him? Because overnight on November 19, 1953 Godfrey managed the extraordinary feat of going overnight from being the most beloved figure in show biz to, in all likelihood, the most reviled. Read all about it here: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juliuslarosa.com%2Fjulie%27sstory.html&h=ZAQGbCYYAAQFs0qjFHEpGxVNyLiIKl8m-e3Fluza9zurTYw&enc=AZPeFe0JdoVTYwdjRKjs6PXZFVdHHHZcMGPDCygOxRarW-ZYYyQu_9yCD3SffOEFfjJ6QlNaes0f94jYaXYSNoDBypvZiDILAHEz8Iid4jy4xdVrUIIRaI1NwHi6luT2qMtyzJAKLnnLx7dUi_o1KU26CHfOxN313mUzLrfKNSNka3Wek8dGhLxOtS0OvZ2ntu4Pn6nbRWtJHJ-TfOFMvaZ8&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.juliuslarosa.com/julie'sstory.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">From this blog of a while ago:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Such a bastard, in fact, was Godfrey that his wife of 40-some~odd years divorced him on her deathbed in 1983. Talk a<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">bout having the last word!</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; display: inline;"><br />Maybe Gertrude Stein never really replied, “What is the question?” to Alice B. Toklas’ “What is the answer“?“ And perhaps it's not true that jazz drummer Buddy Rich, when asked by a doctor, “ls there anything you’re allergic to?” replied “Yes, county and western music.“ One would like to think, though, that these are not apocryphal true stories.</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; display: inline;"><br />And it's also "nice" to think that, according to singer Julius LaRosa, when Godfrey was on HIS deathbed and a nurse inquired, “Is there anything we can get you, sir?” “Yes,” he is said to have answered. “Get me some friends.”</span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: #b6d7a8; display: inline;">LaRosa told me that one a while back in an e-mail, He also wrote to me at the time: “And another display of the man‘s personality/character, which recollection still stuns me. It‘s a Thursday afternoon, he's just flown me and [singer] Ian Davis to his farm in Virginia, At the airport, his wife and son, I guess 9 or 10 years old, are there to greet him. As the "Old Man" steps off the ladder his son comes up, extends his hand and says, “How do you do, Sir?" To his father!! An image which still astonishes mel”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #000099; font-size: large;">DRAMATIS PERSONAE OF: </span></span><i style="color: #000099; font-size: x-large;">THE LEONARD REED STORY: </i><i style="color: #000099; font-size: x-large; line-height: 150%;">BRAINS AS WELL AS FEET </i></h2>
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<span style="color: #000099;">Eddie
“Rochester” Anderson </span><span style="color: #9900ff;"> </span><span style="color: #ff3333;">
Joe Louis </span><span style="color: blue;">Tallulah Bankhead</span><span style="color: #ff3333;"> </span><span style="color: #ff3333;">Molly Picon </span>
<span style="color: #000099;">Joe Louis</span><span style="color: #0000cc;"> </span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Tiger Woods </span> <span style="color: #000099;">Jack
Benny</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Ruth Brown</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Willie
Bryant </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;"> Walter Winchell</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Dusty
Fletcher</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Florenz Ziegfeld</span>
<span style="color: #000099;">Duke Ellington</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Ethel
Waters </span> <span style="color: #000099;">Abbey Lincoln</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Lester
Young</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Peg Leg Bates</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Moms
Mabley</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Nina Simone</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Dinah
Washington</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Carl Van Vechten</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Bessie Smith</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Bill
“Bojangles”</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Robinson </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Edith
Piaf </span> <span style="color: #000099;">Sunshine Sammy </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Fayard
Nicholas</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Sammy Davis</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Ted
Rhodes</span> <span style="color: #330099;">Tony Martin</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">
Cyd Charisse</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Louis Armstrong</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Lloyd Mangrum </span> <span style="color: #000099;">John
Garfield</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Charlie Mingus</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Rae
Dawn Chong</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Oscar Micheaux</span>
<span style="color: #000099;">Olsen</span> <span style="color: #000099;">and Johnson</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;"> Lena Horne</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Sam
Snead</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Herb Jeffries</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Molly
Picon</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Princess</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Wee
Wee </span> <span style="color: #000099;">James Brown</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Roy
Hamilton</span> <span style="color: #330099;">Diahann Carroll</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Butterbeans and Susie</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Fats
Waller </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">David Merrick </span> <span style="color: #000099;">Gene
Krupa </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Ella Fitzgerald</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Al
Capone </span> <span style="color: #ff6600;">Will Marion Cook</span> <span style="color: #000099;">
Pigmeat Markham</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Bille Holiday </span>
<span style="color: #000099;">Laura Bowman </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Bunny
Briggs</span> <span style="color: #000099;">King Rastus Brown</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Thomas E. Dewey </span> <span style="color: #0066cc;">
</span><span style="color: #000099;">Earl Fatha Hines </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Nora
Ray Holt </span> <span style="color: #000099;">Whitman Sisters</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Mary
Lou Williams</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Sarah Vaughan</span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Ben Hogan</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Sophie
Tucker</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Ethel Barrymore</span> <span style="color: #000099;">
Ink Spots</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Louis Armstrong</span> <span style="color: #000099;">
Van Dyke Parks</span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Mills Brothers</span>
<span style="color: #000099;">Frank Rich </span> <span style="color: #ff3333;">Johnny
Otis</span> <span style="color: #000099;">Valaida Snow </span><span style="color: #ff3333;">Max
Schmeling</span><span style="color: #000099;"> Harold Nicholas </span>
<span style="color: #ff3333;">Frankie Lymon</span> <span style="color: #000099;">et
al.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-17328164767550147292015-08-28T21:03:00.000-07:002015-08-28T21:09:29.455-07:00QUEEN OF THE BLUES8/29 is Dinah Washington's birthday! Here's a section on the Queen of the Blues from my book HOT FROM HARLEM:<br />
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Three scenes from "Unforgettable": an imaginary movie based on the life of Dinah Washington.<br />
Scene one<br />
"Any minute now that son-of-a-bitch is going to come through that door," Dinah Washington shouts. She thrusts out her hand—a drink tightly clutched in it—in the door's direction, and holds it there for several seconds. Then she pulls it back, mutters something inaudible, and takes a swig of her drink. The dressing room is very quiet, very intense. This isn't just another date. This is the "downhome" and popular Roberts' Show Lounge in Chicago, a club Dinah has played many times before. Ordinarily she'd be laughing and joking with the musicians, holding court backstage as friends and admirers dropped by to pay their respects between sets. She'd be cooking too, passing around plates of some special dish or other to whoever wanted it. And above all there would be Dinah's furs. She loves nothing better than taking out her many minks and sables to comb and pet them. She loves showing them off to others. She loves looking at herself before a full-length mirror. Tonight, though, Dinah isn't in the mood, and she isn't making her upset a secret.<br />
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"That son-of-a-bitch from Mercury Records," she barks to her band leader, Danny Young. "Jacking me around for months, and now he's coming over." She tells Young how her contract is coming up for renewal with the record company, and how they aren't rushing to have her re-sign. "They're trying to bluff me, those mother-fuckers—trying to get my price down." Then comes a knock at the dressing room door. "Well, who the hell is it," Dinah yells, knowing perfectly well who is there.<br />
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The record executive, a typically middle-aged, business-suited individual comes through the door. Dinah sits with her back to him. "Can we talk a minute?," he asks. Go ahead and talk," she says, not moving around to look at him. "I'm not going anywhere."<br />
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"Well, it's private," he says pointing at Danny Young. <br />
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"Shit!," hisses Dinah. "You can say anything in front of him you want to, but you won't change my mind. I've spoken to three other companies already. You fucked up." The man puts a large box on the dressing room table before her. <br />
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Mr. Mercury Records then leans over the box and opens it slowly. It is a mink coat. White. Full-length. Tens of thousands of dollars. Dinah stops talking; Dinah starts smiling. A great big lusty smile obliterating the gloom that had come before.<br />
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"Well, why the hell didn't you say you wanted me to sign the godamned <br />
contract?, she says, picking up the mink coat and wrapping it around her in a continuous motion.<br />
Everything is going to be alright.<br />
Scene two<br />
The occasion is a Royal Command Performance in Great Britain in the late 1950s. Orchestra leader Val Parnell strikes up the first few bars of "Unforgettable" Out strides Washington onto the stage of London's Palladium. She looks up approximately in the direction of the Royal Box. A mischievous look passes over her face. "There is one heaven, one hell, one queen and your Elizabeth is an imposter," she outrageously remarks, then launches into her opening number. Cut to a shot of HRH Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, not knowing quite what has hit her. <br />
Scene three <br />
A montage of Dinah's 1963 funeral. At a Chicago mortuary 25,000 mourners come to view the body, 6,000 attend her funeral, and 30,000 attempt to attend memorial services at the Detroit church of Aretha Franklin's father, the Reverend C. L. Franklin, which is inundated with 400 floral sprays. The casket is solid bronze, she wears a glittering tiara, one of Dinah's many beloved mink coats is draped across her and expensive rhinestone shoes twinkle up at endless procession of those that has come to pay tribute. The cortege consists of twenty-five Cadillac limousines and over a hundred cars, resulting in a thirty block traffic jam.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-15014866738368608122015-08-27T08:36:00.000-07:002015-08-27T08:46:45.404-07:00IT'S THE BIRTHDAY OF MARTHA RAYEIn honor of the occasion, here's a track by her daughter, Melodye Condos.<br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/prfgp32">Hear here: </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-88043341577221180212015-08-25T20:59:00.002-07:002015-08-25T20:59:37.698-07:00TUESDAY IS VOCAL JAZZ RARITIES DAYTUESDAY IS VOCAL JAZZ RARITIES DAY. Hear here: <a href="https://app.box.com/shared/ynhnpnbks8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://app.box.com/shared/ynhnpnbks8</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-88969982811548077822015-08-10T17:35:00.002-07:002015-08-10T17:37:19.441-07:00HEY NOW! LOOKING BACK!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">I was at a party one time in NYC and w/o advance alert Pinky Winters came descending a spiral staircase lip sync-ing this---her recording of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/qhj5r3x">Flying Down to Rio</a> on the stereo---with a mixing bowl and spatula whomping up a mess of Al Cohn brownies. I thought to myself, "My god, Bill, are you EVER in hipsville! This could never have happened to you back in West---by god---Virginia." This is the recording in question: Pinky, with Lou Levy on piano, and Rob Pronk cond. & arr. the Netherlands Metropole Orch. Don't try to buy this CD unless you've got a C note or two to spare.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-74037473801971537652015-08-07T08:29:00.002-07:002015-08-07T08:33:52.464-07:00Happy Birthday to "Busby" Freberg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">How much less wuner'ful my adolescent years would have been w/o Mag Mag and Stan Freberg. The latter actually made watching TV commercials tol'able. Witness his immortal Heinz soup ad. He died this year at 88, but his dozens of great parody discs live on!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-3113800099599770042015-08-05T08:44:00.001-07:002015-08-05T08:44:09.701-07:00The Ritz Brothers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-39844547135856689702015-07-31T11:05:00.002-07:002015-07-31T11:07:49.177-07:00EVERY DAY IS BESS FLOWERS DAY ON TCM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;"> I've recently brainstormed a possible series for TCM entitled "Where's My Bess." Bob Osborne would be the host and there would be four panelists with laser beams. One of the panelists would be a celeb along the lines of Little Baby Peggy, Marsha Hunt or Mary Carlisle. A film clip would be shown containing a crowd scene in which Bess Flowers, Queen of the Dress Extras (869 films), appears as a background player. The first panelist who spots Flowers and flashes on her image with his/her beam wins. When they do so, they must also shout out "There's my Bess." It has to be those EXACT words or it doesn't count.They would win a dinner with Leonard Maltin or Richard Lamparski or Tony Slide. Meanwhile, I guess I've just got too much time on my hands.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-48474777778503586072015-07-29T12:39:00.002-07:002015-07-29T12:39:40.200-07:00MISTER FIRSTNIGHTER RECOMMENDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10354133.post-88800026578648337042015-07-28T11:43:00.001-07:002015-07-28T11:46:12.181-07:00(voice of Westbrook Van Van Voorhis) On this day in history in 1984 . . <span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">. . . </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;">Queen of the Dress Extras, Bess Flowers, ascended unto that great cattle call in the sky </span><a forcediv="true" forceinline="true" href="http://tinyurl.com/oss9r2b" original_target="http://tinyurl.com/oss9r2b&h=aaqeddzovaqhbqa86tsxannxjzsrmvzrkaidnhhppp6jvva&enc=azmaiccbvzkevtf3vfjdqu5gr5msu0l-vaqdpnxlbv3veor0j1jqkhlzqqhlwxztrbfy7j9jtg5ycos2-mudu06-3xmt6t74elo9ewl_ar1ln-zq-trgluvctkewqaogausa3aqydk3gwmolwhgu0p29xz1juzkjhd4zlnjzqsyng2-xdmpvgkqzmtyxwdwxhtm&s=1" rel="nofollow" saprocessedanchor="true" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/oss9r2b</a></span><br />
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