Recently, I was interviewed by Steve Adubato for his wonderful One-on-One television show on NJTV (New York studios at Lincoln Center above). The clip of my appearance just went up on YouTube...
To buy my new book, Anatomy of a Song, go here in the U.S. In the U.K. go here and in Canada go here.
In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed Naomi Judd for my "House Call" column on her excruciating childhood and the gauntlet she had to run to get signed to a record deal with daughter Wynonna (both above) in the 1980s (go here). Our conversation was harrowing.
Also in the WSJ, for my "Playlist" column I interviewed actor-singer Betty Buckley on her favorite song, Jefferson Airplane's Comin' Back to Me (go here).
Snapped! Sally Tannen sent along this photo of Anatomy of a Song that she took at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Thanks Sally!
Eddie Jefferson radio. On Sunday, "Symphony" Sid Gribetz will host a five-hour "Jazz Profiles" broadcast on the great vocalese singer Eddie Jefferson. Tune in from anywhere in the world on your computer on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 2 to 7 p.m. (EST) to WKCR-FM in New York (go here and click "listen now").
Henry Mancini. Following my post on Lola Albright's Dreamsville album arranged by Henry Mancini and the mention of two dreadful novelty albums (Terribly Sophisticated Songs: A Collection of Unpopular Songs for Popular People in 1958 and Edie Adams' Music to Listen to Records By in 1959), Hollywood arranger Roy Phillips sent along the following email:
"At the time those two novelty albums you mentioned were recorded, the music department at Universal was shutting down and Hank took on whatever work he could get. He wrote charts for a number of artists including Dinah Shore, Tony Martin and Jeff Chandler. Mancini and Chandler were good friends and they wrote the title song to the film Firefox. Another early Mancini song is Six Bridges to Cross, a Universal film in 1955. It was recorded by Dinah Washington at some point. He also recorded The Versatile Henry Mancini in 1957, sort of a tropical exotica album. It contains Poinciana, The Breeze and I and others of that ilk."
What the heck: Here's a vocal recording of the theme for Mr. Lucky, a TV show that aired form 1959 to 1960. Henry Mancini wrote and scored the show's music. I think I hear Ginny Mancini in there singing the hot notes...
Oddball album cover of the week.
I can't figure out the point of this cover for Liberty Records in 1958, featuring the Vic Schoen Orchestra. Perhaps the album was sold near Air Force bases to lonely pilots. Among the oddities, the pilots pictured have strangely small feet, and it's unclear whether the female model was about to depart or was just arriving. The cover concept must have come from one of the album's songs, A Swingin' Holiday. Not sure how "swingin'" wound up "swinger's." Then again, I'm not sure how a female civilian wound up on the tarmac of an Air Force base.
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