Leroy Anderson (Composer & Conductor) - The Leroy Anderson Collection
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Artist: Leroy Anderson (Composer & Conductor)Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Mca Special Products
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Blue Tango
- Bugler's Holiday
- The First Day Of Spring
- Sandpaper Ballet
- The Phantom Regiment
- Lady In Waiting (Ballet Music)
- Saraband
- Fiddle-Faddle
- The Girl In Satin
- The Typewriter
- The Waltzing Cat
- Plink, Plank, Plunk!
- Pyramid Dance (Heart of Stone)
- Belle Of The Ball
- Forgotten Dreams
- China Doll
- The Penny-Whistle Song
- Jazz Pizzicato
- Jazz Legato
- The Syncopated Clock
- The Blue Bells Of Scotland
- Turn Ye To Me
- Serenata
- Horse & Buggy
- A Trumpeter's Lullaby
- Song Of The Bells
- Summer Skies
- Promenade
- Sleigh Ride
- Clarinet Candy
- The Golden Years
- Lazy Moon
- I Never Known When
- Arietta
- The Pussy Foot
- Home Stretch
- Balladette
- Shall I Take My Heart
- The Captains And The Kings
- Town House Maxixe
- Pirate Dance
- The Irish Washerwoman
- The Minstrel Boy
- The Rakes Of Mallow
- The Wearing Of The Green
- The Last Rose Of Summer
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
Free Music Notes for The Leroy Anderson Collection
Free Music Review: A Quality Release In Every Respect - Just Not The Originals
Hit: 5 Stars
In the late 1940s, as the Big Band Sound that dominated the juke boxes, airwaves, and record sales throughout the late 1930s and most of the 1940s began to give way to the rise of the solo vocalist, a new form of orchestra, some heavy on the strings, also appeared on the scene, led by the likes of Mantovani, Nelson Riddle, Hugo Winterhalter and, of course, Leroy Anderson And His "Pops" Concert Orchestra.
His music is eternal, and in this 2-CD set you get virtually everything he put out on disc in that period, including the only four that made it onto the Pop singles charts. The problem is (for collectors of original hits anyway), as a few other reviewers have pointed out, most of the tracks are re-recorded stereo versions, cut in and around 1959. Faithful to the originals almost to the note, they are nevertheless not the ones we heard in the early 1950s.
All this is detailed in the wonderful liner notes under the heading "Catalog of Leroy Anderson Works and His Decca Recordings" which, for every tune included, contains four columns headed "Date Completed" - "Date First performed" - "Date mono Recording" - "Date stereo Recording" compiled in 1988 by Kurt Anderson, who also provides notes on each selection. These follow five full pages of background notes written by Eleanor Anderson and two more pages by Edward Jablonski, co-author of "The Gershwin Years" and author of "Harold Arlen: Happy With The Blues," "The Encyclopedia Of American Music" and "Gershwin." The AAD sound quality is perfect.
For the record, the four that made the charts for Anderson were: The Syncopated Clock, a # 12 in the spring of 1951 b/w The Waltzing Cat on Decca 16005 (the A-side became the theme for TV's "The Late Show"); Blue Tango, a # 1 in December 1951/January 1952 (it spent 5 weeks at the top spot) b/w Belle Of The Ball on Decca 27875; A Christmas Festival, a # 22 for the Christmas 1952 season (a medley arranged by Anderson of Joy To The World/Deck The Halls/God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen/Good King Wenceslas/Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/The First Noel/Silent Night/Jingle Bells/O Come, All Ye Faithful - taking up both sides of Decca 9-16041); and The Typewriter, a # 21 in November 1953 b/w The Girl In Satin on Decca 28881.
It would be nice for collectors to see those original sides presented in one compilation.
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