Swing (Feb-Dec 1951)

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170 April, 1931 with ARBOGAST ALORS (apologies to Ransom Sherman) ze spring. The season strictly for the birds and for the happy people — anticipation time for summery baseball days. Music and spring go hand in hand and, whoever you are — and wherever — you're singing or whistling today. You can't help it. You feel great and spring is responsible — spring and music. For, as long as there's music — ah, but let George Shearing tell you about it. As welcome as the proverbial breath of spring air in this era of bombastic music, is Mr. Shearing's version of, "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC." On an M-G-M label from the Shearing album called, "YOU'RE HEARING GEORGE SHEARING," the melodious "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC" is but one of eight great sides available on 78, 4?, or LP's. Written by the team of Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn, "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC," as played by George Shearing and the quintet, gives you the feeling that the composers and the performers are quite serious about music meaning everything. Shearing's marvelous piano impressions are inspiring. Put "AS LONG AS THERE'S MUSIC" down as a "must" for lovers of intrinsically good stuff. And while you're about it, check out on the entire works of Shearing, who, we believe, will be the biggest thing in American popular music before year's end. On to some others. Such as, "AELUNA MEZZUMARE" (The Butcher Boy). Emil Dewan and the Quintones on Mercury. Remember a thing with lyrics like "Mama, dear, come over here and see who's looking in my window"? That was featured as "The Butcher Boy" about 10 or 12 years ago. Now Emil Dewan and five frolicking gentlemen have come out with the straight Italian version under the original folk-songish title of "AELUNA MEZZUMARE." It could well be the sleeper of the season. We've fallen for it and featured it as our candidate for hitdom on both our day and nightime spinning stints. "AELUNA" rocks. The heckling background voices lend to the song the folksy spirit needed to make it authentically Italian. But what sold us on the thing is the joking "bop" wind-up that follows the street scene foldcrol. We bet you'll want it for your own — unless you prefer Ernest Tubb. Us? We're Tubb-Thumpers, we cater to Dewan's "MEZZUMARE." But we digress — let's get outta here. And on to another. IT has been suggested that a song is a song is a song. 'Tis so, possibly. But, when a song is good (and truly so) it is always good. And, since we'll be baseballing it soon, the song we have in mind here fits perfectly. "JOLTING JOE DIMAGGIO" (Les Brown Orchestra . . . Columbia Label). This may be the Yankee Clipper's last year — we are nostalgic enough to hope not — but he has said as much. This tune by Brown is all about Joe and his tremendous exploits as a comparatively new Yankee ballplayer. Now Joe is legendary — and still, to us, the greatest. Musically and historically it gives the Dimag' story a fine treatment. The liberal use of special effects on the disk makes it unique. Let's see, what's next, Herman?