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Author: Katrina
Date: 2011-11-08 17:18
Thanks John! I love early Benny the best...
Edit/add: The "not licensed for radio" label is really intriguing too. Always makes me wonder what prior incident would have caused that to be required!
Post Edited (2011-11-08 17:21)
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Author: Tony M
Date: 2011-11-08 21:52
Licensing music for radio has perhaps been one of the most important struggles in the history of popular recorded music and has certainly been instrumental in carving out the copyright regimes since the 1920s and the structure of the industry since that date.
If you are interested, I recommend Russell Sanjek's 'American Popular Music and its Business: The First Four Hundred Years, Vol. III, from 1900 to 1984' (NY & Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1988). The book was updated from 1984 by his son, another terrific scholar, David Sanjek, but I don't have those details to hand beyond it being called, 'Pennies from Heaven'. Russell Sanjek was at BMI for many years and had a very clear conception of the industry.
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Author: Dharma
Date: 2011-11-08 22:17
It was Benny that made me want to play clarinet. I love a fistful of other clarinetists, but Benny is the one for me. Thanks for the post!
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-11-08 22:19
Really great. Lots of "dirty" New Orleans tone and style, which he moved away from later.
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The "not licensed for radio" line has a strange history. When piano rolls were invented, publishers of sheet music sued for infringement of their copyright. However, courts ruled that there was no infringement because the rolls couldn't be read by humans. The rule was extended to records, for the same reason.
Thus there grew up (and continues to exist) a licensing system for recordings outside of the statutory system.
For too much more information, see http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=272184&t=272137.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Eric V
Date: 2011-11-08 22:33
Wow, I woulda lost $20 betting that was Johnny Dodds. Great stuff!
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Author: Carol Dutcher
Date: 2011-11-08 23:57
Thanks so much for posting this, yes Benny inspired me to play clarinet too. I loved it when he dropped way down into the lower register!
Carol
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Author: Philcoman
Date: 2011-11-15 15:27
Thanks so much for posting this!
"If you want to do something, you do it, and handle the obstacles as they come." --Benny Goodman
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2011-11-15 17:51
Try this on for size, performed in 1960 on television. He was one of the very greatest, without question. And Red Norvo was no ham.
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2011-11-15 17:52
Try this on for size, performed in 1960 on television. He was one of the very greatest, without question. And Red Norvo was no ham.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsItR0J2tPg
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Author: ned
Date: 2011-11-16 00:04
Ken Shaw wrote: ''Really great. Lots of "dirty" New Orleans tone and style, which he moved away from later.''
I totally agree.
Eric V wrote: ''Wow, I woulda lost $20 betting that was Johnny Dodds. Great stuff!''
It certainly didn't sound like the BG that I am familiar with. I'd have said it was some early NO native, and yes possibly, Johnny Dodds, particularly in the low register.
By the way - for you Goodman admirers who also disdain vibrato - what say you?
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2011-11-16 00:25
Paul -
Listen to how BG picks up Red Norvo's licks at 2:15, and they play them together. Shelly Mann also uses the patterns in the following drum solo. Great stuff.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2011-11-16 12:20
I know what you're referring to, Ken. Absolutely wonderful.
I heard BG live a couple of times, even met him briefly once. He was in his later years but the energy and fluidity of his playing was out of this world. But what I remember best was his performance of "Memories of You," the slow ballad that was one of his signature tunes. It was as if he put the entire audience into a trance. His eyes were closed, as I recall, and he just played -- as perfect an example of communication through music as I've ever experienced.
Paul Globus
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Author: Paul Globus
Date: 2011-11-17 14:01
You got it. What I saw, although not at this event, was equally great. Unforgettable.
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