Hi~Los Swing Low Sweet Chariot

A lacuna in popular music concerned four Hi los.~ granted ~ just a passing pickle. ~ in 1970s HiLos 50s catalogue almost dried up this side of the Atlantic. With your kind indulgence we now Invoke a weather beaten paddy reliable ~ Oh Janey mac ~No HiLos whats a person to do? Cancel your annual subscription to Bob Dylan indigent Indians fund perhaps. Gene Puerling musical brains of the outfit later magicked up son of HiLos ~ Singers Unlimited cooling the vocal quartets blitzing sound . things went swimmingly .The Hi Los underwent the usual personnel changes but paid the price like many a step ahead of their audience ~ stuff sophisticated on a few levels The upshot . contract renewal issues. Don Shelton joined early 1960s or was that late 1950s but anyway the 1950s was the HiLos decade. Hi ~Los quartet skilled ~ superb vocalists an antidote to burgeoningr 50s rock n roll. Arranger Frank Comstock whose name may be be espied ~on reruns of Happy Days episodes ~ Ifcopod "Happy Days " is that your best shot? What about Comstocks arrangements for Les Brown Band He did most of the best HiLos stuff helping earn their peerless tearaway reputation Hi Los Bloody Mary early 60s Rerprise company South Pacific under maestro Warren Barker is no slouch ~cymbals intro brilliant Another or perhaps Ifcopod just likes a mention ~ Stan Kenton in the wings white boys jazz tut tut racist Ifcopod ~ well we love it~ begetters of on its toes brass ~ therapeutic for jumpy psychological types oscillating along a fear anger continuum . This video resynched from 1957 catches the foursome at their shining optimal best UTube moderator Ifcopod pressganged especially for this HiLos gig and dab hand at Shakespeares English agrees .. Beach Boys Brian Wlison had a thing for The Four Freshmen the big ballad harmony quartet of the 1950s a counterpoint to the blitzing HiLos Four but as stated the Frosh were unfailingly balladic Contrariwise the HiLos did their best work as presto sprinters ~peerless Clark Burroughs doing the stellar high notes.~ The HiLos recorded with George Clooneys aunt ~ Rosemary among finest vocalists in a keenly contested 1950s ~ Don' cha go away mad The Hi los delights are many but on " I could write a book " Gene Puerling writes an unexpected dynamic accent on one word in the opening ~ a touch of genius Most settle for mundane run through on the Richard Rodgers standard suddenly the arrangement has a bouncing ~.zing
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it wrong. The orchestra is not Marty Paich Dektette a different class of sound altogether less brass more subtle interaction between participants. that is unless some omniscient soul deals Ifcopod a
corrective clip across the ear Anyway return with decorum to your seats
content in the knowledge that making a balls of an orchestras name is not a hanging offense . Hi Los efforts on vinyl starting 1953 are legion 'Choose one ~ Chinatown? ~ Shine on your shoes~ thats two anyway who's counting Another? how about Two ladies In de shade of de Banana Tree and that's another thing the group was synonymous with fun Another ~ from their 1950s catalogue Camptown races where the quartet after initial hectic intro slow things down a section ushered in by a glissando harp spiral into an acme of falsetto before returning to base Nothing quite it like it elsewhere? Igor Stravinsky The Spring is Sprung composer was commendatory of Hollywood arrangers and well he might. HiLos discs reinstate joy at the top of the music tree . Have you heard ~THAT~ I Married an angel ~ catching punters on the hop that sort of thing
~~~~~~~~~~~~ The proposition if it smiles it cant be good.applies to deadly serious pop? rock? critics looking for a i'm so smart bon mot ~ worse trying vainly to put Humpty Dumpty together Synthy voices on top supple arioso beautiful voice Ariana Grande I'M PICKING IT UP ~ best of todays bits and pieces pop ~ middle hook makes the song ~ needing undercurrent melody ~ Sure Ifcopod half a billion views any other tips for a hit?. As heavy rockers depart pop in part resembles a looped Row row row your boat ~nursery rhymes for kiddies. I',m pickin it up I'm pickin it up Yippee I've picked it up. .
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Ulike Hi Los ~ Igor Stravinsky your music doesnt swing~ As tenth greatest composer in history~ I'm worried regards Igor the Great .Worse consider Worlds greatest pop rock composer Paul McCartney ~greater than Bob Dylan surely not?~shackled to eminently avoidable James Corden~ Corden pigging out on scintilla of Ricky Gervais talent
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