The actual recording of the duet from the Ford 50th anniversary television show (recorded during telecast).as produced by LELAND HAYWARD • staged by JEROME ROBBINS conducted and arranged by JAY BLACKTON. There’s no business like show business…”. And on the night of June 15, 1953, at 10:30 P.M. Ethel Merman and Mary Martin sat on [...]
BILLBOARD, April 1954 noted the release of another Feyer record with this comment: “He plays in an unaffectedly simple manner which is almost a definition of sophisticated taste”. This simplicity — so easy to explain and yet so difficult to imitate is highly deceptive. For under the beguiling surface of this relaxed music making there [...]
His lyrics, his music, his so-called voice, and his piano. About the composer: This recording of the imitable songs of Tom Lehrer has been issued, in spite of widespread popular demand for its suppression, primarily for the benefit of a small but diminishing group of admirers of his dubious talents, talents which have been on [...]
Ballads and folk songs, Vol II. (1949). VOCAL WITH GUITAR AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC SERIES Edited by Alan Lomax The man who has written most frankly about Burl Ives is Burl Ives himself. The fellow whom Carl Sandburg has nominated as “the best ballad singer of them all”‘ has told his own story in “Wayfaring Stranger,” [...]
The actual recording of the duet from the Ford 50th anniversary television show (recorded during telecast).as produced by LELAND HAYWARD • staged by JEROME ROBBINS conducted and arranged by JAY BLACKTON.
There’s no business like show business…”. And on the night of June 15, 1953, at 10:30 P.M. Ethel Merman and Mary Martin sat on a couple of chairs in front of Read more
BILLBOARD, April 1954 noted the release of another Feyer record with this comment: “He plays in an unaffectedly simple manner which is almost a definition of sophisticated taste”.
This simplicity — so easy to explain and yet so difficult to imitate is highly deceptive. For under the beguiling surface of this relaxed music making there is hard work and constant testing. Read more
His lyrics, his music, his so-called voice, and his piano.
About the composer:
This recording of the imitable songs of Tom Lehrer has been issued, in spite of widespread popular demand for its suppression, primarily for the benefit of a small but diminishing group of admirers of his dubious talents, talents which have been on display for several years at functions, orgies, and Read more
VOCAL WITH GUITAR AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC SERIES
Edited by Alan Lomax
The man who has written most frankly about Burl Ives is Burl Ives himself. The fellow whom Carl Sandburg has nominated as “the best ballad singer of them all”‘ has told his own story in “Wayfaring Stranger,” a book which is both a revealing autobiography and a document. Here is his earliest recollection, as Burl tells it: “There was a lonely lane leading up to the house on the hill. Read more
That dashing young man with the fine voice and the keen sense of humor, Roger Miller, offers you here a choice sampling of the type of song styling that has soared him to sensational popularity. This RCA Camden album is made up of a selected group of early Roger Miller performances. These favorites are being released in album form for the first time, and Roger’s enthusiastic fans will be delighted with this entertaining collection. Read more
The danceable, swingable music of the 1930′s burst upon the American scene like a rocket showering the decade with the sparkle of big musical stars to spangle the musical firmament. Tommy Dorsey, Fred Waring, Glenn Miller, Guy Lombardo—superb musicians all, created rhythmic innovations with strong orchestral voicings. Simple, swinging melodies emerged and an enraptured America welcomes the new music you could dance to, and sing with … the big new sound that expressed a new and rollicking musical spirit—the sound of the Big Band Era. Read more
GEORGE FEYER, born in 1908, studied at the Budapest Conservatory under Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Szekely. Being recognized as one of the most promising young concert-pianists in his country, he caused quite a sensation when he suddenly shifted to popular music. In this field he very soon became one of ths best known and best paid en tertainers in Europe. He played in the plushest and most exclusive night clubs and hotels in Paris, Deauville, Nice, Monte Carlo, The Hague, Geneva and St. Moritz. Feyer also had a regular weekly radio program on Radio Paris. Read more
Piano and Harpsichord with Rhythm Accompaniment. For Children from Six to Sixty-Six.
Do you remember when you were a child? Was it fifty years ago, or perhaps just yesterday? Remember the first songs you used to sing like, “Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star” or “London Bridge”? Remember how you practiced on the piano? Was the music, “The Merry Farmer”, “The Minuet in G”or perhaps the “Alia Turca”? Or maybe your mother took you to see Read more
After the sensational success of George Feyer’s ECHOES OF PARIS (VX 500) and ECHOES OF VIENNA (VX 550), Vox is happy to oblige his many friends with another one of his “reminiscing” renditions of Italian melodies. You will find among them your old favorites as well as songs of most recent date which are well on the way to popularity now. Read more
GEORGE FEYER, born in 1908, studied at the BuJapest Conservatory under Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Szekely. Boing recognized as one of the most promising yeng concerT-pianists in his country, he caused quite a sensation when he suddenly shifted to popular music. In this field he very soon became one of the best known and best pa:d entertainers in Europe. Read more