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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 198562, member: 5841"] [SIZE=7][B]Miranda : Morecambe and Wise and Me ITV[/B][/SIZE] I recorded this and watched part of it this yesterday, very enjoyable. Twenty of their most famous sketches, No1 was the appearance with them, of the late Andre Previn. Greig's Piano Concerto. "I'm playing all the [I]right[/I] notes but not necessarily in the [I]right[/I] order." In my teens the only thing about Andre Previn I really knew, was his performance on a modern jazz album I bought in the late fifties. This was the best selling jazz album at the time made in 1956, of the songs from, "My Fair Lady." The show didn't open in Drury Lane until 1958, and I read somewhere a few years later that no music from it was allowed to be broadcast until after the show opened. However, as this was a jazz album which would only be of appeal to a small audience, it was released. He's part of a trio lead by the jazz drummer Shelly Manne, who was also a producer, with Leroy Vinnegar on bass. Manne made a few show albums, but mostly jazz albums with recognised jazz musicians. This is my favourite track. [MEDIA=youtube]PSn2FiHDTFg[/MEDIA] They made another album together, I bought when it was released, of the songs from "Bells Are Ringing," but with Red Mitchell on bass, rather than *Leroy Vinnegar. I like this one. (This album cover is the first time I saw phones with a curly wire). [MEDIA=youtube]Ovcb-SupyKw[/MEDIA] Previn was a really gifted pianist, with a flair for improvisation. Some time later Leroy Vinnegar complained that he only got a session fee for his contribution, so no royalties. When Shelly Manne was asked about it. He said, to the effect, that, that was the music business, he in turn a year later had accepted a job to play on a pop recording for the standard union rate of $25 and didn't complain afterwards. He plays the drums on Peggy Lee's 1957 record, "Fever." The drums made the record a hit. [/QUOTE]

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