Gray, Glen: Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra
Gray, Glen: Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra
Format: CD
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Artist: Gray, Glen
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046911225
Genre: Rock
The Casa Loma Orchestra, a co-operative enterprise led for most of it's existence by saxophonist Glen Gray, was one of the most popular and successful of the "sweet" orchestras who rose to fame during the 1930s. They played middle-of-the-road dance music and the latest songs of the day, often from Broadway and Hollywood as well as Tin Pan Alley, although their music was very much rooted in the hot orchestral jazz of the 1920s, which was particularly reflected in their early recordings. During a career which lasted into the 1960s, the orchestra enjoyed a stellar period of chart success as they racked up no less than 60 hits between 1931 and 1945, including five No. 1s. This 68-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from their releases on the Okeh, Brunswick, Victor and Decca labels during this time, and features all those sixty hits, among them the No. 1s "Blue Moon", "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", "Heaven Can Wait", "Sunrise Serenade" and "My Heart Tells Me". There are some noted names among the band's featured vocalists whose performances are included here, that list comprising Pee Wee Hunt, Kenny Sargent, Mildred Bailey, Lee Wiley, Clyde Burke, Louis Armstrong, LeBrun Sisters, Eugenie Baird and Fats Daniel. Including as it does some of the first commercial recordings of standards of the Great American Songbook, it's not only a fine musical tribute to the Casa Loma orchestra but an evocative window on the music of the era.
Tracks:
1.1 Happy Days Are Here Again
1.2 Casa Loma Stomp
1.3 White Jazz
1.4 Do the New York
1.5 Blue Jazz
1.6 Sophisticated Lady
1.7 Under a Blanket of Blue
1.8 Wild Goose Chase
1.9 Trouble in Paradise
1.10 It's the Talk of the Town
1.11 Weep No More, My Baby
1.12 Heat Wave
1.13 You're Gonna Lose Your Gal
1.14 Dixie Lee
1.15 You Have Taken My Heart
1.16 A Hundred Years from Today
1.17 Infatuation
1.18 Love Me
1.19 The Champagne Waltz
1.20 The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)
1.21 Limehouse Blues
1.22 Spellbound
1.23 I Never Had a Chance
2.1 Moon Glow
2.2 Pardon My Southern Accent
2.3 Two Cigarettes in the Dark
2.4 Learning
2.5 Out in the Cold Again
2.6 You're a Builder Upper
2.7 The Object of My Affection
2.8 Blue Moon
2.9 When I Grow Too Old to Dream
2.10 The Night Is Young
2.11 Fare Thee Well, Annabelle
2.12 Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie
2.13 My Heart Is An Open Book
2.14 With All My Heart
2.15 I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
2.16 Never in a Million Years
2.17 Smoke Rings
2.18 I've Got My Heart Set on You
2.19 Sweet As a Song
2.20 I See Your Face Before Me
2.21 You Go to My Head
2.22 I Cried for You
2.23 You Never Know
3.1 Song of India
3.2 Gotta Get Some Shut Eye
3.3 This Night (Will Be My Souvenir)
3.4 Heaven Can Wait
3.5 Sunrise Serenade
3.6 Tears from My Inkwell
3.7 Rockin' Chair
3.8 If I Had My Way
3.9 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
3.10 Yours Is My Heart Alone
3.11 A Lover's Lullaby
3.12 No Name Jive
3.13 One Dozen Roses
3.14 Don't Do It, Darling
3.15 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3.16 Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
3.17 My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart)
3.18 My Shining Hour
3.19 Suddenly It's Spring
3.20 Don't Take Your Love from Me
3.21 Gotta Be This or That
3.22 Blue Rhapsody
Audio Sample:
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