Artie Shaw gone wrong - 1950
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:29 pm
Speak To Me Of Love 10-inch album (Decca 1950)
Someone sent this to me. It's a big Shaw band with strings playing classic standards, quite syrupy.
The worst part is that they have a man and a woman speaking the song lyrics as Shaw and the band play in the background.
When they stop talking, it's listenable as over-blown easy listening or even lounge music.
I'm playing it now and it is fairly unbearable.
If the original session tapes still exist, they could re-issue it w/o the 'vocals'. Or not.
It's rare, too, I suppose b/c very few people bought it.
One of the few mis-fires of Shaw's musical career.
Someone sent this to me. It's a big Shaw band with strings playing classic standards, quite syrupy.
The worst part is that they have a man and a woman speaking the song lyrics as Shaw and the band play in the background.
When they stop talking, it's listenable as over-blown easy listening or even lounge music.
I'm playing it now and it is fairly unbearable.
If the original session tapes still exist, they could re-issue it w/o the 'vocals'. Or not.
It's rare, too, I suppose b/c very few people bought it.
One of the few mis-fires of Shaw's musical career.
