Asv Living Era
2006
My Reverie
About This Album
Sometimes compared with Claude Thornhill and Reginald Forsythe, Larry Clinton devised danceable swing music for big band, some of it pleasantly quirky enough to compare favorably with the work of Raymond Scott. He also led a modestly popular dance orchestra that featured warm and personable vocalist Bea Wain. Prior to the time period represented on this compilation (1937-1949), Clinton wrote arrangements and hit songs for Tommy Dorsey like "Satan Takes a Holiday" and the ultra-popular "Dipsy Doodle." Dorsey, whose reputation as a conscienceless cut-throat businessman is legendary, actually pulled strings at RCA Victor to suppress Clinton's own recording (of his own song!) so that Dorsey could rake in maximum profits on his band's version. Among Clinton's best-remembered instrumental compositions, "A Study in Brown" was a hit for Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra in 1937. In addition to Clinton's own 1949 recording of that opus, this compilation is dotted with sequel studies in "Blue," "Green," "Red" and "Scarlet," as well as "Strictly for the Persians" and Clinton's theme song, "The Big Dipper.
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