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THE ROARING 20'S - Volume 1
Enoch Light and the Charleston City All Stars
Grand Award G.A. 33-327, 1956
LP rip (128 kbps mono) by Dick Baker, October 2014
1. Charleston
2. Hot Lips
3. Who
4. If You Knew Susie
5. Toot Toot Tootsie
6. Somebody Stole My Gal
7. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
8. Charlie My Boy
9. Black Bottom
10. Button Up Your Overcoat
11. Yes, We Have No Bananas
12. Side by Side
"Oh, you kid!" "Twenty-three skidoo." "So's Your Aunt Tillie and a razz-a-ma-tazz!" The time? The Roaring Twenties, of course--those happy, hectic, hilarious days when everybody was having fun, when the girls' skirts and the stock market quotations were vying with one another to see which could soar higher, and when the gol-darndest, peppiest six-cylinder cars were trying like all get-out to go just as fast as some of the music played by the dance bands of the times.
And what sort of music was that? Well, it's right here, right here in this album, played just the way it was played then, only this time recorded with the most modern, up-to-date 1956 electronic devices known to man! Which means that you will be hearing the Music of the Roaring Twenties as you've never heard it on records before--all there, in its glaring, often garish musical nakedness, every note and every rhythmic nuance revealed in its "hotsy-totsiest" naturalness, the most authentic reincarnation of a music which, come to think of it, has never actually died.
And then, too, there were the singers--the soloists and also the various harmony groups, such as the everpresent girl trios, who restricted their work, just as the musicians did, to mere three-part harmonies, as compared with the four and more parts which are commonplace these days.
To help relive this delightful music, conductor Enoch Light and arranger Lew Davies first listened to and assimilated the music of countless recordings of the twenties, made new, original arrangements of the most popular songs--then organized an orchestra comprised of musicians, talented and versatile enough to feel and transmit the musical style of that period. To them they entrusted the task of reliving the past as individuals and as a musical team. The attack was entrusted to a famed trumpeter, the veteran Charlie Margulis. The flourid trombone fill-ins were assigned to the experienced Bobby Byrne. The saxophone trio comprised Milt Vanier, currently playing on Your Hit Parade, and two other radio and TV stalwarts, Ezelle Watson and Paul Ricci. Nick Perito, a pianist with a terrific beat, no matter what style he plays, took care of tickling the ivories. Guitarist George Barnes, bassist Jack Lesberg and Terry Snyder, all prominent for many years on the musical scene, all currently starred on radio and TV shows, completed the rhythm section.
Here are the results--live and at times maybe less intimate and not as lush as some of the music prevalent today--but so definitely happy, exciting, uninhibited music--music that reveals and relives so perfectly the times and the spirit of a never-to-be-forgotten era in American history--the one and only Roaring Twenties!
THE CHARLESTON CITY ALL STARS
"The Roaring 20's"
By Tracy Sugarman
Tracy Sugarman has been in the forefront of the young illustrators who have been giving new diversion to graphic art since the end of World War II. A graduate of the Syracuse University College of Fine Arts in 1943, Mr. Sugarman was the winner of the graduate award in illustration.
For three years he served as a lieutenant in the Navy, seeing action in the European Theater. At the end of hostilities, Mr. Sugarman studied for two years with David Stone Martin at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. His career in illustration has ranged far afield. He has done work for several publications such as Esquire, Colliers, McCalls, the American Magazine and Parents Magazine; has illustrated several juvenile editions for Wm. Morrow Publishers, and has done extensive work for many of the large advertising agencies in the East.
Tracy Sugarman has sold many of his paintings to lovers of modern art. He has constantly sought new forms and explored new media, feeling always that the commercial field of Madison Avenue can be as challenging and creative aa 57th Street around the corner.
This young artist brings to record covers a creative talent rarely utilized in this field. Unlike most artists, he did not receive specific instructions to produce a particular type of cover, but was merely told the subject of the record album, and from there his wonderful creative ability took over to produce the imaginative cover you see. His use of strong blacks and bold splashes of color combine to give a feeling of youth and vitality to his work, and an exciting sense of movement and direction.
Tracy Sugarman was born in Syracuse, New York, and now makes his home in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife and two children. He has an extensive interest in Jazz as well as classical music, and has a very fine collection of records.
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