CAROUSEL
OF AMERICAN MUSIC: GEORGE M. COHAN, IRVING BERLIN, JEROME KERN, SIGMUND ROMBERG, BERT
KALMAR & OTHER UNFORGETTABLE SONGWRITERS PERFORM THEIR OWN MUSIC - LIVE IN 1940! CD-4971(1)
CAROUSEL
OF AMERICAN MUSIC: GEORGE M. COHAN, IRVING BERLIN, JEROME KERN, SIGMUND ROMBERG, BERT
KALMAR & OTHER UNFORGETTABLE SONGWRITERS PERFORM THEIR OWN MUSIC - LIVE IN 1940!
CD-4971(1)
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"An amazing concert!" raved Philip Elwood, dean of jazz critics on the West Coast in his full-page review of this set in the San Francisco Examiner.
"This is red-hot history in sound, a never-repeated summit of American music-makers that has achieved a deservedly legendary status," wrote John Ardoin in The Dallas Morning News.
In a lengthy essay review in ARSC Journal, critic James Fisher said, "No serious collection of American music should be without this enjoyable set-the listener will find it an endless source of pleasure in its reflection of the glories of a charmingly innocent era."
At the heart of this collection is the evening concert held 24 September 1940
at the California Coliseum in San Francisco in connection with the Golden Gate
International Exposition. The program was called "A Cavalcade of American
Music by Those Who Make America's Music." More than 15,000 persons jammed
the hall (designed to hold only 12,000!). The performers embodied the most important
half-century in the history of American music. From heart song to jitterbug
the era saw the creation of ragtime, jazz and blues as popular art forms.
In those days there were songs for everyone young or old and a song in any style
could be a hit. The music had mass appeal and time and again the concert
audience spontaneously joined in to sing the songs they knew and loved. The
collection is replete with extremely rare appearances by giants of popular entertainment.
To take just one example, in 1911 George M. Cohan (1878-1942) made his only
commercial recordings. They don't do him justice and he didn't record any of
his big hits. With the medley included in this collection, we hear him singing
his greatest songs, "Give My Regards to Broadway" and "Yankee
Doodle Boy" from Little Johnny Jones (1904), "You're a Grand Old Flag"
from George Washington Jr. (1906) and, as an encore, "Over There"
(1917). The great jazz musician W.C. Handy describes this concert as "a
program that was never before nor can ever again be duplicated this side of
kingdom come."
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Intro
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Intro
Caponsacchi: Overture
Caponsacchi: Carnival Music
Intermission Talk
Intro
Intro
Stars & Stripes Forever
Intro (Tribute To Our Founder, Victor Herbert)
Intro
Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf
Intro
Singing In The Rain
Intro
Intro
Deep Purple
Intro/Medley: When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver/Have You Ever Been Lonely?/Somebody Intro
Mark Gordon Medley
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