Saturday, February 22, 2014

Saturday Night Music: Artie Shaw


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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That big band sound and that clarinet? Oh, so great!

8:16 AM
Ron Scheer said...

The sound of Artie Shaw's band is the essence of the 1940s I remember, and this song most of all--just add Astaire and Rogers dancing to it and the gestalt is complete. Thx.

9:37 AM
Anonymous said...

I grew up with this, and it's in my bones. He lived to great age, died just a few years ago. I figure Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were lucky ladies to win one of America's greatest musicians.

8:09 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...

And he didn't do badly with two of the most beautiful women of that era.

10:40 PM
Deb said...

He didn't do badly with, oh, about ten of the most beautiful women of the era. He was a serial proposer, married ten times, but once the novelty wore off, he was outta there.

6:42 AM
Anonymous said...

Wiki informs me that he was more abusive of his many wives than I had realized. But of all the great musicians who formed the voice of the greatest generation, to use Tom Brokaw's designation, Artie Shaw was the most important and most treasured.

9:34 AM

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