Post Av6I2QUjgJZSkvbL28 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Av6Ea4AgmmqlYC0ffk by sk76@mastodon.ie
2024-06-13T19:53:21Z
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Cover for the sheet music for "And Away We Go" by Charles and Henry Tobias (1952)Image: National Museum of American History
(DIR) Post #Av6Ea5XlgSuBo3ocHg by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T20:48:31Z
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@sk76 If you don’t know offhand I can always google.Do you know more about Jackie Gleason’s direct involvement with music? I know he had a series of LPs, and a wife was often a model on their covers. But did he compose arrange, or merely help market, ala Ed Sullivan show cultural curation? Did he hum melodies to a copyist, or…?
(DIR) Post #Av6Ea6d7e2mZAxKPGi by mazigazi@dobbs.town
2025-06-13T21:03:38Z
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@Chancerubbage @sk76 this has some good info https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Lovers_Only
(DIR) Post #Av6F8CV4KIRTE9opDE by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:10:15Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 I googled but it did not surface this, which might go into more detail. Thanks! His actual level of authorship gets skirted around as a passing aside in many articles.But it looks like my last guess, humming a lead line to a copyist, was probably pretty close.
(DIR) Post #Av6G1PTJnbvdNyKGDQ by mazigazi@dobbs.town
2025-06-13T21:20:19Z
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@Chancerubbage @sk76 that’s what I think… it seems to me the albums were sort of a vanity project. Anyone know if he even played any instruments?
(DIR) Post #Av6H7EWvUeLt8rM18i by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:32:32Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 He could play a little piano and a little trumpet apparently.Many of the albums he ‘presented’ were full of known songs composed by others. The musicians looked the other way as his name and clout brought in the checks.I once heard this cover girl was his wife, but I don’t think so. His marriages were rife with infidelity.
(DIR) Post #Av6I2QUjgJZSkvbL28 by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T21:42:53Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 As a vanity project they were extremely lucrative. Mood music. Makeout records. Still easy to find in thrift stores and collectors shops. He sold a -lot -of records.The records apparently started as part of his Capitol contract which took him from hosting Calvacade of Stars to creating his own eponymous TV show.
(DIR) Post #Av6JHCGowwkUwBhRCK by mazigazi@dobbs.town
2025-06-13T21:56:47Z
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@Chancerubbage @sk76 yeah, he seemed a bit full of himself! Still… those records aren’t all bad. I see them cheap in used bins all the time…. Weird they haven’t become “cool” with collectors!
(DIR) Post #Av6LcNyIq6ldDaGl7o by Chancerubbage@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T22:23:00Z
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@mazigazi @sk76 Oh they are cool with collectors. Be it ‘lounge music’ or merely as a cultural artifact. But it’s sort of like finding a copy of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack- they are almost so ubiquitous as to go unnoticed. That doesn’t mean there isn’t someone picking one up for the first time and enjoying it. I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve heard- they work great as ambient mood, they elicit an era.
(DIR) Post #Av6OjJjLJ4PZxBGiY4 by mazigazi@dobbs.town
2025-06-13T22:57:52Z
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@Chancerubbage @sk76 right! I got a few as a laugh and ended up really liking the, especially late night