Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Andrews Sisters
Les Paul, Danny Kaye
Dynamic (USA), 2008
1 CD
Catalogue #: DYN 2960
EAN: 0827139296025
UPC: 827139296025
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Andrews Sisters
Modeling their career after the Boswell Sisters, an earlier singing family act, Minnesota's Andrews Sisters--Patty, Maxine, and LaVerne--were one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1940s and are synonymous with America's cultural zeitgeist during World War II. Adept at swing, jazz, and pop, the Andrews Sisters' talents extended beyond the recording studio and concert halls to the big screen, as they appeared in numerous Hollywood features during their career. Tireless supporters of the war effort, the trio were well known for their work with the USO, entertaining troops throughout the 1940s. The sisters performed, as a group and solo, until LaVerne's death in 1967.
Les Paul
A studio pioneer and arguably the most innovative musician of his generation, Waukesha, Wisconsin, native Les Paul created the solid-body guitar that bears his name. He was also a pioneer in the creation of multi-track recording and effects units. As a guitarist, he was an original jazz stylist who incorporated elements of blues, pop, and country. He started out recording with his own trio, but in the early 1950s, the records he made with his wife, Mary Ford, where she overdubbed several tracks of harmonized vocals, became huge pop hits. Enormously influential through both his musical and technological achievements, Paul continued to perform well into his nineties.
Danny Kaye
Although Danny Kaye was a world-class musical comedian, he was also known as a tireless crusader for various charities, particularly UNICEF. The Brooklyn-born Kaye got his start as a Borscht Belt entertainer in the 1920s, drawing on his prodigious gifts for mugging, pratfalls, mimicry, and a patented double-talk method of singing and stage patter. He did the international vaudeville circuit, performing all over the world in variety shows and stage reviews, before ultimately landing more serious stage work. His film career was inaugurated in 1944, and he appeared regularly over the course of the next two decades in comic and musical roles, such as his famous turn opposite Bing Crosby in WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954). The '70s and '80s found him tackling more serious acting roles and conducting orchestras for charity events. He died of a heart attack in 1987.
