Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2004/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Lilliebolero
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 00:00:13 -0400

At 08:50 PM 7/1/2004 -0700, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
> > "Laroo, Laroo, Lillie Bolero" was a big hit song
> > sometime in the late 40's or early 50's, for
> > reasons I personally cannot understand.
>
>
>
>Yes, that's the song! I had thought that "Laroo, Laroo" was intended
>as an expression of..... well, anticipatory lust.
>
>Perhaps, then, an American composer enjoyed the UK melody and simply
>wrote his or her own lyrics to it?

I have no idea.

>It's easy to forget how well Sinatra sang, by the way.

He was the best in his prime. He always said he learned to breathe and
phrase from listening to Tommy Dorsey's trombone playing while he was with
Tommy's band.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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