Cool-Mo-Dee (Free subscription) | yesterday
(posted at mientras otros duermen ) 01.- JACK JONES - Sleigh Ride 02.- ESQUIVEL - Frosty The Snowman 03.- THE HOLLYRIDGE STRINGS - Santa's Got A Brand New Bag 04.- JOHN BARRY - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown 05.- DEAN MARTIN - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer 06.- HENRY MANCINI - Winter Wonderland - Silver Bells 07.- EDDIE DUNSTEDTER - I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus 08.- JOHN KLEIN - Santa...
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Christmas isn't the only time of year I get into the Holiday spirit around here. Each July since 2006, I post a small clutch of tracks each day that seem to have a little bit of that Christmas magic in them, only none of them come from Christmas albums. I'm sure you've occasionally stumbled across one of these songs yourself. It's right in the middle of a regular album, a song that features sleigh...
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
African Methodist Choir - African Hymns (Arc Music ) Alessandr Magnanini - Someway Still I Do (Phantom ) Bob Baldwin - Collector's Pack (NuGroove ) Bruce Turner - Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Bruce Turner - The Dirty Bopper (United States Of Distribution LTD. ) Caledonia Jazz Band - Street People ( ) Collage - Fifty-Four Minutes Twenty Seconds (Wool ) Collage - Fifty Four Minutes...
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
“Oh skylark Have you seen a valley green with spring? Where my heart can go a journeying Over the shadows and the rain To a blossom-covered lane.”—“Skylark,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Hoagy Carmichael (1942) Johnny Mercer , the incomparably lyricist whose centennial we celebrate today, might be the most unique and multi-faceted contributor to the Great American...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Today is the centenary of the birth of Johnny Mercer who wrote the lyrics to Come Rain or Come Shine, I’m Old Fashioned, Skylark, Too Marvelous for Words, Moon River and Jeepers Creepers . Those happen to be the six songs whose sheet-music title-pages are reproduced on the back cover of his newly-published collected lyrics, but in itself it’s an arbitrary list. One could just as easily...
Double O Section (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
More Upcoming Spy Music: Inspector Clouseau Boy, there sure is a lot of spy music coming out in the final months of 2009! And that's a wonderful thing. Due out the second week of December is Ken Thorne's fantastic score to Inspector Clouseau (1968). Yes, Inspector Clouseau is a spy movie. It's basically a Bond parody, moreso than any of the other Clouseau movies . It's also, of course, the only movie...
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Tony Coe (tenor sax & clarinet) John Horler (piano) Andrew Cleyndert (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) Tony Coe began his performing career with Humphrey Lyttelton’s band and in 1965 Count Basie offered him a place in the Basie Band sax section. His credits since then include the John Dankworth Orchestra, Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Band, Stan Tracey, Mike Gibbs,...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
"Julie, you've got three choices: you could follow Robert Pattinson into the men's room, you could rush the stage at a Taylor Swift concert and tell her how great Henry Mancini is, or in order to publicize the Blu-Ray release of Sound of Music you could release one of your own grandchildren into a balloon in the air." — Alec Baldwin 's advice to Julie Andrews [ Dish Rag/LAT ] “I...
More Than Meets the Mogwai (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Music by an uncredited Herman Stein/Henry Mancini. Conducted by Dick Jacobs and His Orchestra. To my ears, the last 40 seconds -- when the use of the fife kicks in -- makes this title transcend ordinary monster movie music. This very musical stretch was also appropriated for Joe Dante's MATINEE (1993), for the film-within-a-film, MANT.
Anywhere but here (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
It's the most wonderful time, of the year. Every year, since I was a child, I have partaken in Halloween festivities to the extreme. I used to have spectacular Halloween parties, some of which involved setting up a "Haunted House" in our garage. I love to scare the crap out of people. So it's fitting that the novel I am working on is essentially a ghost story (sort of ). It's scary, nonetheless....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
The Henry Mancini Institute, formerly based in Los Angeles, has found a new home at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.
Mars Hill (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
How can anyone not like Charade? Cary Grant paired with Audrey Hepuburn, both of them at their stylish best! Great support from James Coburn and Walter Matthau amongst others. A Hitchcock type film with dry and witty humour throughout, plus a film score by Henry Mancini If you haven't seen it, you have missed out on something. (Universal) Plus below is one of my favourite scenes in the film. You can...
TOP OF THE STAIRS MUSIC (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
http://www.radionowhere.org/13.Aug.2009%20F.mp3 This is the link to my debut Filmic show on Radio Nowhere. Now busy working on my 2nd show, if anyone has a favourite piece of film music - let me know and I'll do my best to play it. Here's the playlist from last night's show:- TRACK/COMPOSER-ART IST/FILM/Henry Mancini/Arabesque Akta/Eric Serra/The Fifth Element The Mighty Road/Carter Burwell/The Generals...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
George from The Nevermind Aesthetic didn’t tag me for this , but I did it anyway because I was curious. Instructions...if you're interested: 1. Turn on whatever MP3 player you possess. 2. Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. 3. Write down the first 30 songs or more that come up--song title and artist. 4. NO editing/cheating, please. Write them order. 5. Choose 25 (or so) people to be tagged...or not. So...
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
We're in the home stretch now! Day 27 and counting. Let's start out with the last Burl Ives track I have for you this month. I think this makes three of his I've shared with you for the month. This time it's The Deepening Snow from True Love (Decca DL 4533). The chorus and orchestra on this one is handled by Owen Bradley , Nashville big-wig. Track two is Song Of The Bells from Leroy Anderson . I grabbed...
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