Harold Arlen sing a medley of his hits 1954

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Anthony DiFlorio

7 жыл бұрын

Harold Arlen sings a brief medley of his hits on live television in 1954.

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@hughmanatee7657 2 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful, charming, endearing composer and musical genius-and cultural treasure!

@paulodelorios8482 3 жыл бұрын

I made sure I remembered your name Mr. Harold Arlen!! Never forget you!!

@johnmitchelljr 7 ай бұрын

Thank you. Rare gift.

@Dylonely42 9 ай бұрын

Timeless music.

@hughmanatee7657 2 жыл бұрын

And let’s not forget Harold’s great lyricists: Yip Harburg, Ted Kohler, Johnny Mercer.

@xylfox Жыл бұрын

Allways interesting when creator and interpreter are same

@dupreeblues4744 Жыл бұрын

young Bob Dylan fave

@davidmackie8552 6 жыл бұрын

Genius

@anthonycaplan1812 7 жыл бұрын

Yes it is raining all the time.

@redinhodaflauta1269 5 жыл бұрын

The "BIG SIX" are Arlen, Porter, Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Kern. That's the top flight - but the second shelf is filled with genius too... (To think that men such as Arlen and Kern lived to see what became of popular music in the sixties. It must have pained them to their core).

@DavidTerrill 3 жыл бұрын

Jerome Kern never saw the 60's - he died in 1945. As for Arlen, he said, when declining an invitation (he was ill) in 1984 to attend a party in his honour given by Paul McCartney - who had just bought the publishing rights to Arlen's songs - "Your work has fascinated and excited me. And I would like you to know that Michelle is one of my favourite songs." Harold Arlen is the one of the big 6 that very few remember. Yet he was also the man that George Gershwin called "the best of us." That's how good he was.

@davidgolann5043 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidTerrill Great anecdote re: Paul McCartney. "Michelle" was also Irving Berlin's favorite Beatles song (Jablonski, 315). Arlen and Berlin were great friends. Cannot argue with the Big Six, whose music will live on and on. For me, Berlin and Rodgers are in the inner circle of this amazing group.

@redinhodaflauta1269 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidTerrill Thank you for correcting me in a most basic error regarding Jerome Kern: I took that idea - that he had lived into "the rock era" from my long ago reading of Alec Wilder's magnificent book "American Popular Song, 1900 to 1950" where he projects that idea as Kern's response to the trends of the day. It is from Wilder, too, that I took the idea of "THE BIG SIX" - he certainly gives due and great value to Arlen {my own personal favorite it so happens} - but, beyond "The 6" he also evaluates the nascent jazz composers, especially Ellington, Strayhorn and James P. Johnson too. I must admit I find myself somewhat at a loss as for Arlen's pronouncement on the Beetles song you mention - but I'm sure you must have a source. Thank you, once again for correcting me on the matter of my Kern gaffe.

@DavidTerrill 3 жыл бұрын

@@redinhodaflauta1269 Hi again and thanks for the message. I also rate Arlen very highly among the 6 although each of them had areas where they shone above the others. The qute about McCartney's Michelle comes from "The Man That Got Away" by Walter Rimler - a biography of Arlen.

@markellman1 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavidTerrill I have a hard time taking Arlen's quote re: Michelle at face value. The circumstances and times may have had more to do with him expressing that sentiment than his actual feelings -- at least I hope so. Otherwise I am mystified. Michelle as a composition certainly has not withstood the test of time. How many artists have chosen to perform it?