Sammy Davis My shining Hour

A test ~listen to this Sammy Song ~ NO? ~ sorry this channel not for you. ~ As ever Ifcopod gracious tolerant never dismissive or superior ~ You should be so lucky ~On occasions swinging On many occasions adds Ifcopod
Look out Count Hard swing ~
~ What an opener Basie watching o'er me That ~restive occasionally querulous listener is how I spend an unexceptional in the estimate of some majoring in quotidian matters ~ drab? existence I'll buy that but in midst of existential maunderings space for this rocking dalliance with blasting Sammy
Deadly serious rockers ~ and poncy paddies~ Yes ~ that lot ~ enlightened collective?~ divining significant music ~not cock a hoop over this brash stuff . verily a genteel breed todays aristocrats imparting musical secrets with hushed sincerity . Ooh you are awful~ Would you believe Some dont like musicals ~ lets not shun the little people
Harold Arlens songs Flexible so swingarooney definition hip consummate composer Do I prefer Arlen's My Shining Hour and Out of this World to Irving Berlins best. Yes is the short answer. Risking a clip across the ear You betcha considered response Lets not make a federal case just a contretemps abutting civilised music lovers You say eether I say eyeder Lets not call the whole thing off Everyone loves Irving Berlin Ifcopod~ try Gershwin not Berlin
Nancy Wilson recorded Harold Arlens My Shining Hour on 1960s Hollywood My Way Not a cast of thousands instead a small combo marshalled by self same Jimmy Jones
Theres a good My Shining Hour on U Tube by Stan Kenton singer June Christy who despite unfavourable comments over intonation was one of THE names from Kenton and big band era But Nancy and Sammy are a perfect fit
In summary then a keenly contested field. Ludwig Van the man the greatest of all violin concertos~for suffused lustrous eloquence its Arthur Grumiaux missing perhaps a crucial element ~ majesty ~ then little matter of generously overrated Wolfgang Schneiderhan Give me Grumiaux anyday I'm still pigging out with occasional vinyls What about Furtwangler and Menuhin ? What about them?
Sincerest apologies friends enemies non committed mortals and assorted head the balls I strayed uninvited into a deadly serious male forum on U Tube ~ a A contradistinction no less ~ of Ludwig Van the man ~ if you recall? You dont ? Not to worry even in gender labile times Bob no doubt is still your uncle ~ Hurrah back on the rails As you were before the uninvited interruption.
Continuing our Nancy anecdote~
In late 1980s Nancy went into overdrive strenuous vocal battles with her musical demons~ its the wailing dont ya know~ giving them short shrift~ Ifcopod referred to Nancy and her vocal demons in a parodic piece attempting transferred epithet( at least thats his story) on U Tube not quite making a balls of it but apparently violating community rules. Eiger sanction loomed( good 1975 movie pity about cop out ending) ~anyway upshot Ifcopod was sanctioned losing a valuable Nancy video classic stuff Satin Doll no less We suspect real reason for decline and fall was use of infrequent literary devise hyperbaton
What a plight. I have on accredited authority Nancy did not lose a video on U Tube but lost some from that elusive band ~undecided voters supporters who werent up to her hard swing wailing with inner foes The results worth the protracted vocal battles. Hard swing may well have been invented for Nancy and hero of this piece Whammy Sammy .Please dont make me choose between Sammy and feline Nancy .Thats her on the Ifcopod channel Logo
Sammys finger snapping intro for a blistering if brief account of Harold Arlens classic My Shining Hour From Sammys !964 album a live contemporaneous version with The Basie Orchestra packed to busting brass everywhere Indeed if there is a minus Its a minus on the plus side more beefy bass perhaps. .This is Ifcopods music in spades charts from Quincy Jones and George Rhodes
Two favourite music styles Hard Rock up to Metallica and screaming big bands Seriously IfcopodYou'd need to up your medication A hard rocker doting on big bands? Yes especially when ACDC Queen that lot are otherwise occupied. BBCs Sara Cox Sounds of the 80s conversation with Joe Elliott from Def Leopard
Finished?
Not quite. Someone was befuddled over Harry Connick when his big band was doing the rounds. posing this ~ is the Harry Connick aggregation a flashy show band How dare you? Flashy perhaps but brilliant besides The Harry Connick big band was the best at the time the slip up was over estimating the values of the vulgus ~yes THAT LOT