Friday 4 January 2019

Love Thene from " the Bad and the Beautiful"  Composer David Raksin wrote the famous song " Laura." Both Irving Berlin and Cole Porter admitted that Laura was the one song they wish that they had written.
For the " Bad and the Beautiful" Raksin wrote a " siren song" that is quite complex in the use of extraordinaarily lush chords which jazz players like Bill Evans like to explore. Evans plays solo piano of the theme plus Michael Feinstein sings the lyrics which I thought were written by Dory Previn. This is a melody of the very highest attainment in popular song.

 https://youtu.be/BgERf0KqX9Q

https://youtu.be/7Gdxw0xSs3o 

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