Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (1945 - NBC Radio) The King's Men with Billy Mills Orchestra RESTORED in STEREO
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Gossip, Blabbermouths, Yakety Yak, Gab, Girl Talk - has always been a problem for the guys apparently, and so a song with end lyrics "Though I'd really love to pop you" - was made popular during World War 2 in 1945 by Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, but in this transcription, you get The King's Men singing live on NBC radio about runs in their nylons - with modern sound design in Dyna-Stereo! READ MORE...
Enjoy a look at NBC Radio City Hollywood and inside one of the radio studios - while listening to this special sound design edition featuring AI music stems - done to isolate Ken Darby's vocal harmony group, The King's Men - allowing some isolation to the track (as heard at the end of the video) and more true instrument separation.
The King's Men vocal quartet sings the novelty song written by Jimmy Van Heusen, "Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk), made popular by Bing Crosby and Judy Garland on Decca Records.
Hear a digitally enhanced and restored NBC Orthacoustic Electrical Transcription disc of the musical portion of the "Fibber McGee and Molly Show" as heard on the live OTR broadcast. Billy Mills was the "maestro" - or musical director of the show - and his 18 to 22-piece radio studio orchestra was populated with musical radio stars like Buddy Cole on piano, Perry Botkin on guitar, Phil Stephens on bass, and soloists like Andy Secrest on trumpet and Abram Lincoln on trombone and Matty Matlock on clarinet - as well as NBC staff musicians and 'stars' from the big bands that were disbanding during this time.
Hear these vintage and rare big band swing arrangements as performed live during the 'musical interlude' of the show - never intended to be heard again - with a high-fidelity quality than originally heard on AM radio over 65 years ago. Billy Mills was the orchestra leader for the show from 1938 to 1953, at which point NBC dropped the live orchestra and cut the show to 15 minutes due to viewer competition with television.
At their peak, this top-rated Old Time Radio show, "Fibber McGee and Molly", would have had over 35 million listeners on a typical Tuesday night broadcast (at 9:30p ET) - until television came along, decimating the radio network audiences.
The King's Men, led by the talented Ken Darby, were a renowned vocal quartet known for their captivating performances on the popular radio program "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show."
They are best known as Bing Crosby's backup vocalists on his famous "White Christmas" Decca recording. In the 1950's, Ken Darby wrote the theme and the vocal group provided the musical accompaniment to the syndicated filmed TV show "Jim Bowie".
Formed in the early 1930s, The King's Men consisted of four exceptional vocalists: Bud Linn, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, and Ken Darby himself.
The King's Men are best known for their appearances on "The Fibber McGee and Molly Show," a highly popular radio comedy program.
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Thank you very much for posting this and congratulations on the fantastic job restoring these recordings; I just finished listening to the playlist. This is exactly the type of arrangements I'm fascinated with! A lot of people don't like them and prefer slower or simpler versions of the songs.
I love how cheery, energetic and danceable the songs are: Scatterbrain, Atlanta GA, Evelina, Satuday Date, Comes Love, etc etc etc gotta love those saxophones!!
By the way, today (Sept 6) is Billy Mills' birthday, so cheers for that!
Thanks, my friend. I knew I wasn't the only one who found these 'pop/novelty' arrangements awesome. And to realize these musical performances were never to have been meant to be heard again...The more of these I do (there are many more to come, btw - it's interesting how as those years changed, so did the stylings. Also, when the ad agency had money, the band was biggest by 1945. By 1953, the orchestra was a much smaller combo with a few strings added occasionally when the arrangement justified them. As for the musicians, they all played in the major Big Bands, were recording artists and studio musicians themselves, and 80% of the Billy Mills Orchestra were in John Scott Trotter's Orchestra backing Bing Crosby. Buddy Cole, the virtuoso pianist, gets to play around and have fun (as do all the other musicians) in Billy Mills' group, whereas in Trotter's group, it's all straight stuff. Fun fact, Mills would have each section rehearse independently before a rehearsal or full-playing in the group. I also have studio-recorded Standard Library transcriptions to restore - (another UA-camr has some of them already uploaded archivally). Billy had a great group of studio guys. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REACHING OUT! MORE TO COME!!!!😄
@@musicom67 Those 1939-1941 arrangements (e.g. Are You Having Any Fun, Blue Room, Dark Eyes, etc) with Spike Jones are fantastic, very energetic! I can see how William´s (Billy) style and way of arranging changed through the years, influenced by other artists and the transition to calmer, more danceable pieces one can only assume; I do appreciate the oftentimes more compact recordings from 1946 onwards, though I prefer the "full swing band" one better. Strings are always welcome too!
@1:35 sick breakdown and tempo change. Pay attention metal bands!
You noticed that too :)
High Quality mono sources make all the difference in the world in the end result. The last batch in this series were disappointing as those sources were considerably poor. This is as crisp as was heard in the engineer's booth 80 years or so ago (except not in "stereo", of course)! Think for a minute about the engineer with a couple of dials on his console - and a handful of microphones - creating this mix! I'm just tearing the mono apart and putting it back together with fat pants
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