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they certainly put me in the mood.Mr Awesomer wrote:Well, the Spice Girls were the Glenn Miller Orchestra of the 90's, so kinda. hahaCafeSavoy wrote:Is that another glen miller site?Eyeball wrote:http://www.spicegirlsforever.com
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... iller.htmlSpice Girls' creator looks for another Glenn Miller
By Oliver Poole
Last Updated: 2:08PM BST 15 Jun 2001
THE pop music impresario who launched the Spice Girls is recruiting musicians for a "big band" in the style of Glenn Miller in the hope of taking the sound of 1940s swing to the top of the charts again.
Simon Fuller is hoping to repeat his success at manufacturing pop sensations by reviving the era of the dance hall and the jitterbug. He has teamed up for the project with Nigel Lythgoe, the man behind ITV's Popstars series.
The pair have proven track records in creating artificial pop groups with tailor-made mass teenage appeal. While the Spice Girls have been one of the most commercially successful pop acts ever, Hear'Say, the group created during the Popstars series, reached number one in the charts with the fastest-selling debut single of all time. Mr Fuller and Mr Lythgoe are hoping to pool their talents to create a market for the old-fashioned big band.
Mr Fuller, 38, is combing Britain and America for singers with the right look for the band, which will be launched next year but has yet to be named. It will be backed by an estimated budget of £6 million, and will appear in its own television series.
The decision to promote big band music is a new direction for Mr Fuller, who has also managed the Eurythmics. He believes that teenagers are bored with dancing by themselves to disco and rave music and are ready to take the floor arm in arm with partners again. The popularity of Latin American dances such as the salsa and tango convinced him. Typical big bands include up to 20 musicians, with a large brass section.
Mr Fuller set up a company called 19TV as a launch pad for his future projects, poaching Mr Lythgoe last month to run the business. The big band will be one of the firm's first ventures. It is not the first time Mr Fuller has launched one of his pop groups with its own television show. His chart-topping band S Club 7 had its record releases accompanied by a 13-episode BBC1 series.
Max Beesley, the actor and percussionist who appeared in the BBC's version of Tom Jones, has been approached to join the new big band group. However, his inclusion could anger his girlfriend, Melanie Brown, the Spice Girl known as Mel B, who no longer talks to her former manager. The group sacked him in 1998 when they decided to take control of their own careers.
A spokesman for Mr Fuller said that it was unlikely any music would be heard from the band before the start of next year.
So that's why you've been "studying" up on the Spice Girls.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to look up those recordings. I don't have much of his material, just some of the stuff he did with Venuti and some of the recordings with Teagarden.AlekseyKosygin wrote:Just an FYI, Rollini, although he could play piano was much better known for his bass saxophone playing and it was his playing on that instrument that really made him famous. Rollini along with Otto Hardwick really put the instrument on the map when it comes to Jazz music...
That is quite lovely! All-in-all, a better version of QI than Cab's... Also note the nice reference to Christopher Columbus in the last phrases.Haydn wrote:Lovely short light piano solo by Edgar Hayes at 1m 57s on 'Queen Isabella' by Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra (1937), which is available on this CD