St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-11-12
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The Les Paul-Mary Ford COM
bine are back with two new fine
sides. Aiming at repeat on Vaya
Con Dios, record. Mary sings fun
and richly on whittier Thou Goest.
There's plenty Of feeling on this
and it viii make its mark ~
whether near, equal or better than
''Vaya" you'll decide. Mate is a
Paul original, Mandolino, strictly
Instrumental (CaptioD.
Stan Freberg has a way of cap
italizing on pop hits which makes
his versions equally good buys.
Taking Boom for target prac-
tice. Freberg and crew proceed to
bat out a version that's full of
laughs. He kids the sox off the
various groups responsible for the
smash tune. On the mate, Freberg
takes up blues singing and does a
pretty nice job on Wide Screen
Mama Blues, an original (Capi-
toll.
The Four knights ride easily on !
Nelson Riddles shuffled rhythm'd |
Saw Your Eyes. Also rhymic, |
with change of pace, a la Mills |
Brothers, is I Don't Wanna See |
You Cryin' tCapitol).
A Look At The Classics
II has been some time since this |
column has reviewed the classical |
recordings arena. The chief de- |
lection from this very important |
and truly wonderful area of mu-
sic by the authors Hank MCGEE
and ]. Henry Randal) seems to
have been, as a reader put it, be
cause of the overwhelming, but |
not all deserved popularity of the
jazz, blues and pop stuff"
The reader, like others. had
something of a point in adding
that the popular type of music
trash" for quite a bit of IL is
Just that. However, we disagree
vigorously that the majority of
this material is trash There are
literally thousands of works in the
idiom which are, in themselves,
classics"
But back to the classical music,
acknowledging that we have been
derelict in our reportings on this
serious side, we are renewing our
acquaintance with the master
works by looking over some of the
current releases.
Our first disc has to do with the
latest version of Brahms Violin
Concerto. an item which in the
past has been strictly dust
catcher on record store shelves.
The newest recording, rapidly
climbing to the top as a best
seller among classical recordings,
is by Nathan Milstein and the
Pittsburgh Symphony orchestra
under the baton of William Stein
berg.
1t is probably the best waxing
of the work. once called concerto
against the VIOLIN" The old Hell
z-Koussevitsky recording (Vic-
tori will always be a classic, but
the Brahms is more suited to Mil
stein. In our opinion, the worlds
top fiddler, p S, Milstetn fans, A
MiIstein Recital, released in the
spring, included the artists ar
lists arrangement of some themes
by Nicolo Paganini Capitol.
The Popular Scene
A great package for Broadway
musical lovers is the new album
by Robert Ashley and the MGM
studio orchestra, using as vehicles
three of Robert Russell Benefits
famous symphonic pictures. All
on single LIP disc. the tone
snapshots" are his versions Of
George Gershwin's Porgy and
Bcss, Richard Rodgers Oklahoma
and Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate.
We've heard better hi-fi waxings
and there are better renditious of
the "Porgy" symphonic poem, but
the three on one disc makes the
album an extremely palatahle af-
fair (MGM).
Eartha Miss Kitten" Kit has a
couple OF items taken from her
role in the legit Miss Patterson
play on discs which will be man
ma from Kitten" for her followers.
Sides are IL Was A Boy and Tea
In Chicago. Both are extremely
special stuff and thus might be re-
stricted in appeal, but they are
good (Victorl.
The Drifters. in manner that
makes YOU thing of the original
Ink Spots. have an excellent item
In Someday Youu Want Me To
Want You. Basso Willie Piucllney
come through with a spoken reel
tation OF the lyrics a Ia Ink Spots.
Flip is a driving rhythmic item.
Rip Ram. with Clyde McPhatter
leading the group in rouSinG per
formance (Atlsnticl.
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