Michel Legrand Orchestra - Three Coins in a Fountain

Memories of Frank Sinatra (and Victor Young) all over this sunshiney song which set the world alight in mid 1950s. I would settle for an album in this Legrand style Three Coins a tribute to music of 1950s radio days -- a vintage Legrand sound. on some tracks ~ others strict recreations sidestepping free interpretations. The Legrand approach is locked in here but Walter Shumann voices did an alternative take "of David Rose Holiday for Strings ". Radio Days album is hardly no holds barred but console yourself Isn't life full, of helpful souls telling you how things should be done A nostalgia trip of sorts . Some songs Peanut Vendor a strict 1940s approach ~ not in the Lalo Schifrin Peanut Vendor class Holiday for Strings at one time the essence of light orchestral music Walter Shumann voices ~ a melody you can't really mess about though Legrand inserts a French accordion ~David Rose orchestral classic dates from 1940s ~ I've cherry picked ~ novelty stuff is less interesting ~ but the mainly strings stuff is mainly good like track kicking off.~ Three coins in the Fountain. A virtue of Legrand tethered to a strict regime he finds interesting ways of reshaping a melody~ tuba laden September Song . But with best will songs like Tico Tico will not darken my doorstep ~ . The extended spiel on Holiday for Strings needed quick check of Schumans arrangement which once seemed so novel ~ now not . Aside from opening Schumans take on Holiday for Strings sounds worse for wear~ a bit flabby voices whirling about aimlessly At least in internet era everything can be verified. Didnt Ethel Smith do a sort of dancing organ version of Tico Tico Yes check it out on U
Tube fun colour performance from the 1940s

[@annaluciaisolani8747]

wonderful, Lovely. Thank u so much for sharing. This is the most beautiful era ever!

[@thesalome]

its favourite song of my father,he has got memory from his young years,THANKS