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Saturday, 8 November 2008
Ray Conniff interview
Now Playing: WTIC Radio podcast link
Topic: PODCASTS
Ray recalls his early days in Boston playing trombone with the Society Bands, including Dan Murphy’s Musical Skippers, performing in New York with Bunny Berrigan, Artie Shaw, and Bob Crosby and his eventual glory years at Columbia records...
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  • Posted by BSB, editor at 3:43 PM EST
    Thursday, 6 November 2008

    Topic: CONDUCTORS
    November 6, 2008... Ray would have been 92. In order to commemorate his birthday, watch YOUtube and sing along. Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 - October 12, 2002) was an American musician. He was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, and learned to play the trombone from his father. He studied music arranging from a course book.
    Wiki Bio - WEB - IMAGES - SHOP Ray Conniff

    Posted by BSB, editor at 3:01 PM EST
    Sunday, 2 November 2008
    California Melodies
    Now Playing: episode 44
    Topic: PODCASTS
    David Rose with wife JUDY GARLAND Faust Waltz Amapola I Guess It's Better That Way MAXINE GRAY sings There'll Be Some Changes Made Vienna Waltz OFFENBACH Orpheus In The Underworld MAXINE GRAY sings It All Comes Back to Me Now Indefinate Ryhthm

    Posted by BSB, editor at 9:05 AM EDT
    Sunday, 26 October 2008
    David Rose
    Now Playing: California Melodies 43
    Topic: PODCASTS
    composer, conductor David Rose My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice DELIUS Dance for Harpsichord Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Do I Worry? vocalist Maxine Gray Cari Mia Rhumba RUBINSTEIN Melody in F Come Down To Earth, My Angel Maxine Gray Plantation Moods

    Posted by BSB, editor at 10:34 AM EDT
    David Rose
    Now Playing: California Melodies 43
    Topic: PODCASTS
    composer, conductor David Rose My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice DELIUS Dance for Harpsichord Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Do I Worry? vocalist Maxine Gray Cari Mia Rhumba RUBINSTEIN Melody in F Come Down To Earth, My Angel Maxine Gray Plantation Moods

    Posted by BSB, editor at 10:34 AM EDT
    Monday, 13 October 2008
    Tony Bennett Robert Farnon
    Now Playing: Snowfall
    Topic: SINGERS
    Tony Bennett says it was the genius of the late Toronto-born composer Robert Farnon that led to his long break from producing Christmas albums. Bennett's new record "A Swingin' Christmas," being released this week, is just his second holiday album. The first was 1968's "Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album," and the iconic crooner says the 40-year gap is a result of Farnon's superb orchestrations on that disc...MORE - WEB - IMAGES - Available Here

    Posted by BSB, editor at 3:14 PM EDT
    Sunday, 12 October 2008
    Happy Birthday Nana Mouskouri
    Topic: SINGERS
    NANA MOUSKOURI born 12 or 13 OCTOBER 1934. The pop singer from Greece became an international singing sensation and is credited with selling more records worldwide than any other female singer. She recorded for Philips, Polydor. Nana Mouskouri (in Greek, NUνα Μοyσχουρη), born as Ioanna Mouskhouri, in Chania, Crete, Greece. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. (Note that in Greek her surname is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable rather than the second.) She has recorded in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Welsh, among others.Nana, 1960s
    WEB - Wiki Bio - Shop: NANA MOUSKOURI - IMAGES -
    Nana, today

    Posted by BSB, editor at 5:44 PM EDT
    Sunday, 5 October 2008
    David Rose Orchestra
    Now Playing: California Melodies 42
    Topic: PODCASTS
    Juanita Years From Now SIBELIUS: Valse Triste Cantcha Tell with vocalist Maxine Gray La Paloma Ruby Frenesi with Maxine Gray Opus 6, Number 6 aka Jitterbug Fantasie

    Posted by BSB, editor at 7:29 AM EDT
    Tuesday, 30 September 2008

    Topic: PODCASTS
    George Spink's handy guide to the 12 Juke Box podcast pages he has completed on his Tuxedo Junction Juke Box website:
  • Airmen of Note click here | Available Recordings
  • Benny Carter click here | Available Recordings
  • Variety 3 click here
  • Charlie Barnet click here | Available Recordings
  • Tommy Dorsey click here | Available Recordings
  • Variety 4 click here
  • Count Basie click here | Available Recordings
  • Variety 1 click here
  • Variety 5 click here
  • Les Brown click here | Available Recordings
  • Variety 2 click here
  • Variety 6 click here Simply click on any link to visit that page.

  • Posted by BSB, editor at 4:44 AM EDT
    Monday, 29 September 2008

    Now Playing: The Andre Kostelanetz papers
    Topic: CONDUCTORS
    The papers of legendary conductor, arranger and broadcaster Andre Kostelanetz have been donated to the Library of Congress by his estate. Kostelanetz died in 1980. The gift is a veritable treasure trove for students of 20th century music and broadcasting. The archive of Kostelanetz' personal property, papers, clippings, letters, sound recordings, posters, and photographs spans some 73 crates. It documents in detail the career of one of America's most remarkable men of music. The gift from Kostelanetz' estate will complement the gift of scores and parts for many of his arrangements Kostelanetz made to the Library of Congress. His papers will join those of George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, and Irving Berlin, among others in the Library's collection of material belonging to eminent American musicians.
    MORE - Official Site - WEB - IMAGES - SHOP Andre Kostelanetz

    Posted by BSB, editor at 11:45 PM EDT

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