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More Player-Piano Tunes To Hear on the Web
By Karl Ellison

I put up more tunes recorded from my piano onto my web site today
(URL below):

 ~~~ Dance Music ~~~

  o "All By Myself" QRS #1456 - p/b Max Kortlander
    - Nice tune, but with a dissonant base.
      Why'd Max do this? (A: Because he could)
  o "Humming" QRS #1376
     - Snappy tune that'll put pep in your step!
  o "You Ought To Be In Pictures" PlayRite #201 - p/b Adam Carroll
     - ... with that typical Carroll lush-sounding orchestration.
  o "My Blue Bird Was Caught In The Rain" Atlas # 4090
    - Great danceable/singable '20's tune
  o "Bees Knees"  Jewel #4140
    - Did this song kick-off this popular phrase, or vice versa?
     This quirky novelty tune is evocative of the 1920's ...
     back-to-back rich chords and constant progressive modulation (or
     so it seems).
  o "Thank Your Father" Klavier #2220 - p/b Adam Carroll
     - Picture Adam playing this for you at your next cocktail party!
  o "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" QRS #2027
     - p/b Pete Wendling - 'Gotta love that Wendling bass!
     This tune also reissued note-for-note on QRS Q-316.
  o "Ukulele Lady" Pianostyle # 24096
     - Takes you back to the Hawaiian Craze of the early '20's without
     overdosing the listener with a heavy mandolin orchestration
  o "Hallelujah (from 'Hit the Deck')" US #44389
    - *Very* upbeat and tasteful dance tune.
  o "Charleston Rag" Ampico #54174E  pb Eubie Blake
    - Played by Eubie as only a Eubie Blake song can be played.  Don't
      confuse this with "The Charleston" or you'll be disappointed.
  o "Black Bottom" PlayRite # 402-A
     - A rich ragtime 2-step about the color of a river's bottom.
  o "So Beats Me Heart" (I think) Atlas #07608
     - Unmarked roll, but a winner fox-trot. Great orchestration!
  o "Lights and Shadows" QRS # 80628  pb Lee S. Roberts
    - Another piece from L.S. Roberts full of harmonics, split
     bass chords and modulation you'll feel up your spine.

 ~~~ Classical Music ~~~

  o "Chopin's 'Black Key' Etude" 88-Note # 2042
    - Got the big applause when I heard it performed at Boston Symphony
      Hall. I play it at the tempo I heard it performed .. wow!
  o "Dinner Music #8" Ampico # 67653-H  pb Milton Delcamp
     - Includes: "The Love Nest", "Gypsy Love Song", "Wildflower",
     "Peg 'o My Heart", "If Love Were All", "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
     So lively, you'll forget about dinner!

Karl Ellison
Ashland, Massachusetts
http://members.aol.com/kbellison/piano.html


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