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Jazz Variations on a Strip Cartoon

A selection of the best in jazz music.

Shelly Manne and his friends who made an LP months after the My Fair Lady jazz hit in 1956. This second one was based on the Broadway show Li'l Abner which in turn was the result of the daily strip cartoon which at one time had 40 million readers worldwide. It wasn't the success of the first LP but the sound is similar with Andre Previn and Leroy Vinegar. There's also an Ella comparison, two tunes sung by Ella Fitzgerald just eighteen months apart and yet such a difference in her voice and delivery.

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Wed 29 Aug 2012 19:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio Shropshire, 蜜芽传媒 Hereford & Worcester & 蜜芽传媒 Radio Stoke

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Music Played

  • Shelly Manne

    Jubilation T Cornpone

  • Dr. Michael White

    Crescent City Serenade

  • Carmen McRae/Betty Carter

    Sometimes I'm Happy

  • Louie Bellson

    Basie

  • Sonny Stitt

    I Can't Give You Anything But Love

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Little White Lies

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Taking A Chance On Love

  • Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra

    Purple Porpoise Parkway

  • Phil Woods

    World On A String

  • Grant Green

    Old Folks

  • Blossom Dearie

    Surrey With The Fringe On Top

  • David Newton

    Pacific Heights

  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Georgia On My Mind

  • Piccadilly Dance Orchestra

    Jubilee Stomp

  • Sara Colman

    Autumn Leaves

  • Martin Taylor/Alan Barnes

    Willow Weep For Me

  • Dee daly

    Imagination

  • Eddie Davis/Johnny Griffin

    Gigi

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Aug 2012 19:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio Shropshire, 蜜芽传媒 Hereford & Worcester & 蜜芽传媒 Radio Stoke