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The Timex Shows Vol.1.
Am 19. Mai 2017 veröffentlicht Eagle Rock Entertainment die zweiteilige "Frank Sinatra Collection" auf DVD und digital. Die Collection zeigt einige von Frank Sinatra's besten Performances zusammengefasst auf 2 einzelnen DVD Veröffentlichungen.The Timex Shows Vol.1 zeigt dabei seine ersten beiden Timex Shows der späten 50er Jahre. Hier enthalten ist seine allerste von Timex gesponsorte Show "The Frank Sinatra Timex Show", die am 19. Oktober 1959 auf ABC ausgestrahlt wurde und "An Afternoon With Frank Sinatra", bei der er Hits wie "I've Got The World On A String" und "I'll Never Smile Again" singt.The Timex Shows Vol.2 kombiniert seine beiden finalen Timex TV Shows von 1960. Hier enthalten sind "To The Ladies", eine Show bei der sich Sinatra mit wundervollen weiblichen Performern umgibt und seine letzte Timex Show "Welcome Home Elvis", bei der Sinatra zusammen mit Elvis Presley auftritt. Die erste TV Show von Elvis nach seinem Militärdienst.- Shop: odax
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Best of Film Noir: Volumes 1 & 2
The term film noir, French for "black film" was first applied to Hollywood films in 1946 and is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Most of the stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. Restored in HD from the Original Film Prints, included in this 6 DVD double Collector's set package is the thrilling the Red House, Frank Sinatra's Suddenly, a film noir gem Kansas City Confidential, the brilliant Pitfall featuring Dick Powell, Jane Wyatt and Lizabeth Scott, the Stranger featuring Edward G. Robinson and the Strange Love of Martha Ivers with Barbra Stanwyck, Van Heflin and Lizabeth Scott. All classic noir.- Shop: odax
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Love These Songs
LOVE THESE SONGS --Jonathan Francis 1) YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG (1946) Mack Gordon - Josef Myrow --One of those songs that really lives up to it's title. I always feel a bounce in my step when and after I sing it. Mack Gordon was one of those lyricists of the l940s who found steady employment in Hollywood writing songs for the stars on the studios' payroll. Many of the movies of that era may have been terrible, but a lot of good songs were written for them. Gordon teamed with Harry Warren at 20th Century Fox during the war years. Later he wrote this song with the lesser known Josef Myrow and it has since become an American Song Book classic. 2) THE GIRLS OF SUMMER (The Girls of Summer 1956) Stephen Sondheim With it's lilting bluesy swing melody and accompaniment, this song perfectly evokes the romantic atmosphere of a summer at the beach. The story is an old one and it ends with "I've got nothin' but blues." 3) (Love Is) THE TENDER TRAP (1955) Sammy Cahn - James Van Huesen Made famous in the movie "The Tender Trap" (1956) with Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, it was sung three separate times and left a memorable impression. Cahn and Van Heusen were Sinatra's mainstay song writers who gave him a solid lyric of the heart. Cahn wrote words that people would really say and not so much about moonbeams and dreams. 4) MY SHIP (1941) Ira Gershwin - Kurt Weill Beautiful imagery and a haunting melody are the hallmarks of a great song. Composed for the musical "Lady in the Dark" (1941) the protagonist is trying to recall, in a psychodrama of 3 sequential dreams, this very song from her childhood. Fragments of the melody drift in and out of the score until, at last, in the finale, it is remembered and sung. 5 ) SKYLARK (1941) Johnny Mercer - Hoagy Carmichael --Vintage Johnny Mercer with a particularly strong evocation of the natural surroundings of his childhood in and around Savannah, Georgia. The melody by Hoagy Carmichael with it's complex bridge making two key changes in eight bars is wonderfully fresh and surprising. A Los Angeles area news reporter recounted how he had an appointment to interview Mercer at his home. He arrived by car and was parking in the street when he saw Mercer in the yard feeding some birds. "Well" he thought, "it's comforting to know that Johnny Mercer really does like birds!" 6) THERE WON'T BE TRUMPETS (cut from Anyone Can Whistle, 1964) Stephen Sondheim -A wonderful arrangement of pure Sondheim genius has trumpets sounding from every corner belying the song's title. The gradual build up in tempo and intensity is punctuated by a waltz-like segment just before the final denial of the necessity for trumpets. How could they have "cut" this one? 7) LUSH LIFE (1949) Billy Strayhorn -One of the most atmospheric songs ever written. Whether singing or listening you will breathe Strayhorn's air and find yourself transported to his world. 8) MOUNTAIN GREENERY (1926) Rodgers and Hart This is one of four songs by R & H that I chose for this recording. The rhythm is totally infectious and the repeated jumps up and down a seventh (musical interval) is wonderfully evocative. I can just feel myself driving up one side of the mountain and down the other to get to my "mountain greenery home." 9) YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS (1941) Don Raye - Gene DePaul - A song that seems to defy any further comment. It expresses sorrow as only music and words combined, can. 10) I WISH IT SO (1959) Marc Blitzstein There is a saying about artists that "All painting is self portraiture." And for composers, music is often their form of self portraiture. When I sing this song, it seems as though Blitzstein is coming alive and revealing himself to me in a very intimate way. 11) MY FUNNY VALENTINE (1937) Rodgers and Hart This is a favorite of mine. I love the poignant irreverent humor, the internal rhymes and repetitions, the pleading "Stay little valentine, stay!" and the elegant descending base line that supports the entire song. Some say that the reason Lorenz Hart was able to write such poignantly beautiful lyrics is that his own love relationships were so strained and difficult. 12) DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE (1942) Duke Ellington - Bob Russel -A song from the World War II era, that promoted the idea that women left at home were remaining faithful to their men overseas. The opening verse to this song reads: When I'm not playing solitaire I take a book down from the shelf, And what with programs on the air I keep pretty much to myself. 13) I'LL TELL THE MAN IN THE STREET ( I Married an Angel 1938) Rodgers and Hart - A rarely performed number with a great arching melody. Originally it was done as a jaunty fox-trot but like many R & H songs it works equally well as a ballad. I particularly like it with the verse setting up a nice contrast to the expansive chorus. 14) I COULD WRITE A BOOK (Pal Joey 1940) Rodgers and Hart I usually tear up when I get to the part--- "And the simple secret of the plot---is just to tell them that I love you---a lot." I still don't know why. THREE SCOTTISH BALLADS The following three songs have been on my list of favorites for many years. It was Ewan MacColl, the Scottish balladeer, who first let me hear the pure emotional intensity of an unadorned human voice. He sang in a steady, rhythmic, musical line without accompaniment. His reedy tremolo coloration was the perfect compliment to these ancient narrative tales. 15)THE BATTLE OF HARLAW The battle of Harlaw took place on July 24, 1411, when an army of Highlanders led by Donald of the Isles was beaten by the Earl of Mar's Lowland forces. Child published 2 versions. This version is from Jeannie Robertson of Dundee and Ewan MacColl. 16)SIR PATRICK SPENS I particularly like this one with it's bagpipe-like ornaments. I can almost hear the low drones underneath during it's seventeen verses. Motherwell has suggested that this fine ballad my be based upon the events following the marriage of Margaret, daughter of Alexander III of Scotland to Eric, King of Norway in 1281. Many of the nobles who conducted the young queen to Norway were drowned on the return voyage. Child publishes 18 versions of this ballad. Ewan MacColl's father taught it to him. 17) LORD RANDALL Known throughout Europe and America in substantially the same form, Randall is a perfect example of the question and answer ballad. The name of the hero varies a good deal from version to version. Henry I of England (fourth son of William the Conqueror) died Dec 1, 1135 after a "surfeit of Lampreys" (eels - of which he was excessively fond) in Normandy. Child publishes 15 texts. Ewan MacColl's mother taught it to him. Musical direction, piano arrangements and accompaniment by Jason Martineau Produced by Jason Martineau Recorded and mixed December, 2009 at Fantasy Recording Studio, Berkeley, Calif. Engineered by Alberto Hernandez.- Shop: odax
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To a Certain Boy
About the album: A concept album in the tradition of Frank Sinatra's 'In the Wee Small Hours,' vocalist & songwriter Joyce Kwon addresses each of her five songs 'to a certain boy' on her first trio EP. She hopes to not be singing these songs past her twenties, and wishes to find a title to the third track in good time. And while guilty of indulging in artificial sweetener, Joyce is trying to break the habit, as it leaves a strange aftertaste. This EP includes Joyce's hit song from her college years at Berkeley, 'Don't Ask Me Out,' which is still very relevant today, and should go without saying for sorry creepers. Get your copy today! It makes the perfect gift for that special someone you want in (or out) of your life. About the trio: Joyce Kwon (voice) and Ross Garren (keyboard) met at House of Curries some years ago but both forgot about the encounter. Then they happened to meet again at a pasta/pizza/burger joint and have been friends since. Ross is the kind of person who would order a tofu salad at a ramen house, while everyone else slurps on noodles. Joyce has been pollotarian or pescatarian on and off since junior high school and has dined on monkey head and other Amazonian delicacies in her off phases. Jonathan Richards (bass) can take several hours to eat a sandwich and is watching his figure. Jonathan bonded with Ross over peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and met Joyce, not at a restaurant, but at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. Please visit joycekwon.com for additional information.- Shop: odax
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It Happened In Brooklyn
Jobs are scarce. Rooms to rent are scarcer. Times aren't easy for returning GIs in the years after World War II. But falling in love, that's easy. It Happened in Brooklyn. And it happens with Frank Sinatra (in a performance critically hailed as the best of his then-young screen career) starring as an ex-soldier and with a lot of humor and Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. The Song's Gotta Come from the Heart, one tune says and, with Sinatra mimicking Jimmy Durante as he socks it over with the affable Schnozzola, it has enough heart to envelop all of Flatbush. Kathryn Grayson, Peter Lawford and Gloria Grahame help make the movie magic happen. And most magical of all is Sinatra's silken delivery of a ballad forever linked with him afterward: Time After Time.- Shop: odax
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Young & Foolish
From the cover of 'Young and Foolish' About the Album In 2002 I recorded my first solo album with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Since that time, I have been looking forward to working on a second project that would be a bit different than the first, but still showcase my singing with a big band. After the first project, I became interested in the production style of the early stereo recordings of my favorite singer, Frank Sinatra. Along with studying those phenomenal recordings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, I began listening more intently "past" Sinatra's voice to the musical arrangements and orchestrations that supported his singing. And so, two strains of interest began to develop: production and orchestration. The result is this album. The music chosen for this project is the music I grew up with. There is a wide variety of songs on this album, spanning from Hank Williams, Sr. and Roger Miller's country music to Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly's early rock and roll style to the Nat "King" Cole Trio, the great Cole Porter, and the recording industry's first gold record of Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo." The title track, "Young and Foolish," was introduced to me by my dear friend and musical mentor, Harris Wheeler. It is a lovely song that I feel stands alone on this album. Bob Thornton did a beautiful job accompanying me, making for a wonderful intro to this largely up-tempo big band album. The musical arrangements and orchestrations on this album are a result of the influences of my three favorite arrangers who wrote for Frank Sinatra: Nelson Riddle, Billy May, and Neal Hefti. Other influences are the music of Ray Charles and recordings of my favorite big band, the Count Basie Orchestra. These musicians are some of my biggest heroes in the great world of music. They created much of the musical ideas of this particular genre and have given me great happiness in my life. I am forever grateful to them. The sound production of this album is a result of hours and hours of listening and study involving the early stereo recordings that came out of Capitol, Reprise, and Verve records. Those particular recording sessions were tracked "live" in the sense that all of the musicians were present, including the vocalist, and recorded all at one time. During Frank Sinatra's recording sessions, he would sing live with the band in the same room...with no headphones. The trumpets and trombones were recorded as one brass section, with one microphone in front of the entire section. The saxophones were treated the same way, with one microphone recording them. There were typically one or two microphones to record the drums, one microphone to record the acoustic bass, and one microphone to record the piano. There was not much isolation to be had in such a situation. The sound of the brass section would bleed into the saxophone and piano microphones and the drums would bleed into all microphones, etc. Some of the most exciting recordings that I've heard come from this period and were recorded this way. I am very grateful to have worked with Kendall Thomsen on this project. Kendall is an extremely talented musician and recording engineer, with great ears and a personality that made this experience very enjoyable. When I expressed to Kendall that I wanted to pattern this album after those early stereo recordings, he was happy to oblige and take on the challenge. The end result is a beautiful "hi-fi" recording enhanced by our modern technology. The actual session was set up like those early stereo sessions, as explained above. The recordings were tracked "live" and I sang "live" with the band...no headphones. The piano and acoustic bass were recorded with one microphone on each instrument. I am very pleased with the warm and "woody" sound of the acoustic bass. Two microphones were used on this recording to pick up the drums. The brass section was recorded with one microphone and the same technique was used for the saxophone section. One stereo microphone was setup in order to pick up the overall sound of the band in the room. We needed a large room to accommodate the number of musicians and the "big" sound of a big band. Starke Lake Studios was the perfect room for this project. Also, with such a setup, the band has to be made up of expert musicians that are able to perform the music with little to no rehearsing and superb musicianship. Many thanks go to Greg Parnell for putting this ensemble together. I truly believe that all of these elements will make for an exciting musical experience for you, the listener. I hope you enjoy! -Nick.- Shop: odax
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