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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12      Non-Film Score Discussion: Gleasonian Orchestral Melancholia    FIRST   PRIOR   5 6 7 8 9    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Dec 4, 2019 - 6:42 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) His artwork is on the same high level as John Lennon's    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 7:21 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Jackie Gleason "The Decent One."    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 9:07 AM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) Jackie Gleason "The Decent One." Now you know why I feel the way I do!    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 3:48 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Gleason, consummate artist that he was, also painted the cover of his album, Jackie Gleason Presents Lush Musical Interludes For That Moment (1959)    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 3:53 PM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) Looking at Gleasons girth,he could" stamp.out.obscenity and filth" with.one foot!    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 4:23 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) It's always nice to see this thread bumped up again. The Great One's rendition of "Jingle Bells" sure hangs "heavy" over the room in which it's played! It wouldn't sound out of place as the underscore in The Twilight Zone episode, "The Night of the Meek." (Of all the episodes that suffer for having been shot on friggin' videotape, that one suffers the most). The whole album is great. It's the kind of album you put on in the late afternoon with a bump or two of a good scotch. The original had 14 tracks; later reissues whittled it down to 10 and eliminated some the more interesting tunes. The version of "Snowfall" is stunning: Was thinking of Mr. Thornhill's "Snowfall" this afternoon, the original and this one. Have played it for 40 years and for so many times it's a wonder there's still a groove.    Posted:   Dec 5, 2019 - 4:57 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) In another thread, I asked Stu Phillips about an album of his on Capitol, titled "Feels Like Lovin,'" which must be from 1965, based on the song selection. He did not reply. I have a (non-academic) theory that this album had been intended as a Jackie Gleason album but rejected for some reason. All uptempo hits of the day played at lugubrious, suicidal tempos. Gorgeous arrangements with interesting harmonies, all bathed in a warm orange glow of reverb. Essential for Gleason fans, regardless of whether or not it was intended as a Gleason album.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2019 - 4:02 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Stu has been posting recently, so you may want to bump that thread and ask him about the album again. Feels Like Lovin' is exactly the kind of album my grandmother used to play on the family furniture stereo console! It's eerily familiar to me. I'll have a (hopefully) more eloquent and expressive review of it later, after I've "digested" more of the music and passed it through my uneducated musical "guts."    Posted:   Dec 6, 2019 - 3:33 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) The Ron Hicklin Singers are great. They pack more pathos, mythos, and ethos into "Stop! In the Name of Love" than the song ever got when The Bouffanted Supremes performed it.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2019 - 3:58 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) My parents had "Music, Martinis, and Memories." I should seek out a clean copy in their honor. I used to have "The Now Sound for Today's Lovers" but foolishly unloaded it. I got excited by the sitar, but it wasn't wild enough for me then. I would probably love it now.    Posted:   Dec 6, 2019 - 6:51 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) My parents had "Music, Martinis, and Memories." I should seek out a clean copy in their honor. In your honor I just pulled out m'vintage LP. Am listening to I Remember You. No need to confirm, 's gotta be Hackett on the trumpet. Oh, my.    Posted:   Dec 7, 2019 - 4:00 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) I used to have "The Now Sound for Today's Lovers" but foolishly unloaded it. I got excited by the sitar, but it wasn't wild enough for me then. I would probably love it now. As mentioned previously, the sitar heard on The Now Sound is ornamental and adds precious little to the proceedings, but it serves as a reminder of the album's time and place, which may provide the excitement of which you speak. Listening to Mr. Stu's Feels Like Lovin' and I am impressed. The ladies of the Ron Hecklin Singers are especially effective with their vocal contributions. My thanks to you for the introduction and of course thanks to Stu for masterminding this music way back when--it's a refreshing reprieve from the poorly-aging Boomer youth culture--does anyone say "far out", "heavy", or "groovy" anymore sans sarcasm or invective?    Posted:   Dec 7, 2019 - 6:35 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) As mentioned previously, the sitar heard on The Now Sound is ornamental and adds precious little to the proceedings, but it serves as a reminder of the album's time and place, which may provide the excitement of which you speak. I found Martin Denny's "A Taste of India" right around the same time as the Gleason. The sitar and tablas on this album are featured much more prominently, which probably prejudiced my view of the Gleason. I also found just the cover alone, which I kept to store my sleeveless copy of "The Hustler," because of the Jackie Gleason connection.    Posted:   Dec 7, 2019 - 10:41 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) found Martin Denny's "A Taste of India" right around the same time as the Gleason. The sitar and tablas on this album are featured much more prominently, which probably prejudiced my view of the Gleason. A Taste of India is a swell album, and I feel that Martin Denny handled that kind of material more comfortably than Gleason's arrangers. Gleason's sound is Manhattan penthouse whereas Denny's is the Mai Kai. Slightly OT, but a thought related to the sundowner era of easy listening music: One of the great tragedies of the 1960s culture wars is that gritty individualists like Jackie Gleason and Bill Evans fell in line with seemingly every other 1970s middle-aged man in that they either grew a hair helmet and muttonchop sideburns, or if they were balding, like Gleason, a bacon-strip comb over; both in the ill-advised pursuit of "hipness."    Posted:   Dec 8, 2019 - 6:53 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Gleason on The Tonight Show, October 18, 1985. The Great One discusses his albums starting at the 13:10 mark. Snowflake Advisory: Includes chain-smoking, references to alcohol, and a subtle ethnic joke.    Posted:   Dec 8, 2019 - 8:57 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) ...One of the great tragedies of the 1960s culture wars is that gritty individualists like Jackie Gleason and Bill Evans fell in line with seemingly every other 1970s middle-aged man in that they either grew a hair helmet and muttonchop sideburns, or if they were balding, like Gleason, a bacon-strip comb over; both in the ill-advised pursuit of "hipness." Ah, but that is one of the very characteristics of the late-60s to mid-70s that I love. I will often refer to Bill Evans's "leisure suit era" or, as you know, to Mancini's "combover period." This is one of the fascinating, if not slightly insidious, aspects of 70s culture: that everyone was brainwashed into accepting these fashions - the beautiful, the ugly, and the so-ugly-they're-beautiful.    Posted:   Dec 8, 2019 - 10:00 AM     By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member) The Onya Fashionista The Phelpsian Couture    Posted:   Dec 8, 2019 - 10:14 AM     By:   eriknelson   (Member) A unique Gleason album included a 4-movement ballet entitled "Tawny," which was choreographed by June Taylor and presented on one of his variety shows. One of the movements is given below.    Posted:   Dec 9, 2019 - 8:29 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) A unique Gleason album included a 4-movement ballet entitled "Tawny," which was choreographed by June Taylor and presented on one of his variety shows. Thanks for mentioning it. Tawny, while not strictly in line with that Gleasonian Orchestral Melancholia we seek, showcases a loftier, artier aspect of Gleason's musical world. Other Gleason works outside the Melancholy realm (though not completely) would include Silk n' Brass, Velvet Brass, Riff Jazz, and Lazy, Lively Love.    Posted:   Dec 10, 2019 - 5:07 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) Consider these valuable words of wisdom as you put on yet another Gleason album... "The only thing better than one of my albums is one of my albums with a glass of Scotch." "I don't advocate drinking for everyone; it just worked for me."     Non-Film Score Discussion: Gleasonian Orchestral Melancholia    << < 5 6 7 8 9  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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