Jerry Adler, Harmonica Virtuoso, Dies at 91

By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: March 21, 2010
Jerry Adler, a harmonica virtuoso whose pure, open sound can be heard on the soundtracks to “Shane,” “High Noon,” “Mary Poppins” and other films, but who labored in the shadow of his more famous harmonica-playing older brother, Larry, died on March 13 in Ellenton, Fla. He was 91 and lived in Sarasota.

Mr. Adler got off to a flying start in the music business after winning a talent contest at a local theater at 13. It was the same contest, sponsored by The Baltimore Evening Sun, that Larry had won five years earlier, in 1927, and Jerry performed the same piece, Beethoven’s Minuet in G.
“I was a very skinny, scrawny kid who couldn’t make it at all with the girls,” he told The Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 1997. “So I did this as a defense. And it worked.”
First prize was the chance to perform with the theater’s headliner, Red Skelton, for a week. A few years later, looking for work in Manhattan, Jerry talked his way into an audition with Paul Whiteman and soon began appearing with his orchestra at the Palace.
Unlike Larry, who devoted himself to classical music, Jerry stuck with popular tunes. He was highly sought after as a soloist in films from the 1940s through the 1960s. His credits include the soundtracks for “Shane,” “High Noon,” “The Alamo,” “You Can’t Take It With You,” “Mary Poppins” and “My Fair Lady.”
When stars needed to pick up the instrument for a film role, he showed them how to fake it with conviction, secure in the knowledge that he would be recording the notes offstage. He tutored James Stewart in “Pot o’ Gold” (1941) and Van Johnson in “The Romance of Rosy Ridge” (1947). In the 1953 Kirk Douglas film “The Juggler,” he appeared onscreen taking a solo in a campfire scene.
Hilliard Gerald Adler was born on Oct. 30, 1918, in Baltimore. After establishing a solo career, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was assigned to an entertainment unit in Santa Ana, Calif., which cast him in “Winged Victory,” Moss Hart’s star-packed Broadway morale-booster about pilots in training. He also appeared in the film version, directed by George Cukor, which was released in 1944.
Eager to go overseas, Mr. Adler volunteered for a small entertainment unit called the Winged Pigeons, which toured most of the Pacific islands immediately after, and in some cases during, their liberation by American forces.
In 1947 he married Sylvia Gandel, who died in 1990. His second wife, Jean Ruppa, died in 2009. In addition to his son, Michael, of Germantown, Md., he is survived by a daughter, Susan Lantis of Capitola, Calif. Larry, his brother, died in 2001.
Beginning in the 1950s, Mr. Adler found steady work performing on cruise ships, which provided a good living for decades. In the 1980s, when the cruise ships became too onerous, he began performing on the Florida condo circuit. He often appeared with pops orchestras, usually performing the music of George Gershwin.
His autobiography, “Living From Hand to Mouth,” was published in 2005.

RIP Fess Parker

Bert Kaempfert in Concert (1979

Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader and songwriter. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records, and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, such as "Strangers in the Night" (originally recorded by Ivo Robić) and "Spanish Eyes".
He was born in Hamburg, Germany - where he received his lifelong nickname, Fips - and studied at the School of Music there. A multi-instrumentalist, he was hired by Hans Busch to play with his orchestra before serving as a bandsman in the German Navy during World War II. He later formed his own big band, toured with them, then worked as an arranger and producer, making hit records with Freddy Quinn and Ivo Robić. In 1961, he hired The Beatles to back Tony Sheridan on My Bonnie (Lies Over the Ocean), When the Saints Go Marching In, Ain't She Sweet and Cry for a Shadow, in a session for Polydor, the Beatles' first commercial recordings.

Singles and famous songs
* Swingin' Safari
* Afrikaan Beat
* Holiday for Bells

In Concert (with Sylvia Vrethammar, 1979)(also released as a Video)

The goodbye to Bossa Nova from JOHNNIE ALF

SAO PAULO - The singer, composer and pianist Rio Johnny Alf died in marh 4th, aged 80, in Santo André, in São Paulo (Brazil), where he was staying. For more than three years, Alf had been suffering from prostate cancer and his health has worsened since Monday.

Born José Alfredo da Silva, Vila Isabel de Noel Rosa (1910-1937) in Rio de Janeiro on May 19, 1929, Johnny Alf was emphasized through songs like "Eu e a Brisa" (The Breeze And I), "Ilusão a Toa" and "Rapaz do Bem". He was raised by his mother and a family that hired her as a maid after his father's death. Later, around 9 years old, a friend of the family, Geni Borges, encouraged him to learn classical piano.

Studies of classical music ( "more than Chopin Debussy") had little influence after, as the Alf assert years later. What else had an impact on his artistic creation were the movies American music that soundtracks were signed by people of the stature of George Gershwin and Cole Porter. "That's what I lit interior that will create something. So when the movie came back on that impact, I went to the piano and doing things with the influence of what he had heard," he said.



In the movie musical, there was jazz - and especially the trio of fellow pianist and singer Nat King Cole inspired. In Brazilian music, the singers Silvio Caldas, Orlando Silva and Batista Dircinha were among his favorites. He also played Dorival Caymmi and successes of the repertoire of fine singers of the time, as Lucio Alves and Dick Farney. This mixture of influences emerged the embryo of the bossa nova that he pioneered.

The year 1952 was definitive in his career. Until then, Alf hopped out the functions of the Army, during the day, and nightclub singer in the evening. Among his admirers in the audience were singers like Nora Ney and Dick Farney. It was through them that started the career as a pianist at Cantina do César, nightclub owned radio Caesar Alencar. Victor Freire contributed leading him to know the actress and singer Mary Gill, who had just been elected Queen of Radio that year.

Thus it was that had not one but four of his songs recorded for the first time - "What Is Love," "We Are Not Alone," "Listen" and "can talk" - as well as playing piano on the disc from the singer. The very first recording of Alf, falsetto, his own, left on the B side of a 78RPM disc, which had cigarettes in cigarette (Luiz Bonfa) on the A.

Singer - Before instrumentalist, composer and architect bright harmonies amazing movements, Alf did not take long to impress as a singer, also a pioneer in the use of voice as an instrument. First record significant of his career over 50 years and a few titles, "Man of Good" is considered by experts as the first album of bossa nova, a style only adopt this nomenclature in 1958 with the classic "Chega de Saudade" (Tom Jobim / Vinicius de Moraes) for voice and guitar of Joao Gilberto.

The silent revolution of Alf came to the public three years earlier, but had the backing of a privileged audience of shows since 1953: the young bossa nova Joao Gilberto, Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra and Joao Donato, among others, who had how big idol.

Living in São Paulo since 1954 - with a relapse leap in Rio in 1962, when he formed a trio with bassist Tiao Neto and drummer Edison Machado - Alf just released their first LP, "Good Lad" in 1961. Then came the consecration of another of his classics, "Toa of Illusion" and "What Is Love", which will become mandatory in all his shows. His biggest success was "I and the Breeze," 1967. Alf only recorded 13 albums over 40 years and played their last show in August 2009 at Teatro do SESI in Sao Paulo, along with her friend Alaíde Costa.

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YOU SEE THIS ?

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Almost Alice or Alice in Wonderland ?

Because of this i drink ... i drink ...

I drink everyday !!!

Me .. Edmundo Floss ... On right in this picture ... In the brazilian summer i drink ... i drink ... My wife Emengarda don't like this ... But ... i drink ... i drink ...

The soundtrack os the brazilian sitcom

In 1970, the "economic miracle" fulfilled the hopes of Brazilian society and the television started to play an important role in people's lives. Soap operas already gathered Brazilians in the living-room. Some neighbors would gather in the window of the most fortunate families, just to watch Irmãos Coragem. The soap operas soundtracks were well different of the ones produced nowadays. Som Livre (Globo's record company) would soon be created, as a label distributed by Odeon. Until then, Globo's soundtracks were released by Philips.

The tracks that compose the collection presented here were taken from those records. They are all Brazilian instrumental tracks of Globo's soap operas broadcasted in the year of 1970 (Pigmalião 70, Verão Vermelho, Irmãos Coragem, A Próxima Atração e Assim na Terra Como no Céu), all produced by Nelson Motta (the soundtracks). With compositions of Egberto Gismonti, Dory Caymmi, Marcos Valle, José Briamonte and Roberto Menescal, these tracks, created especially for the soap operas, brought many surprising moments, as the interpretation of Joyce for the "Bachiana nº5", of Villa-Lobos, or Elis Regina making vocalisations in the main theme of the soap opera Verão Vermelho, and the band The Youngsters (former The Angels), one of the pioneers of the instrumental rock in Brazil, in a groovy interpretation (that vaguely resembles The Meters) of the music "Tema de Kiko", composed by Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos.
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Carmen Cavallaro e Xavier Cugat - Brazil

In the picture "The Eddie Duchin Story", played by Tyrone Power and Cugat (1957)

The sound of the brazilian orchestras in 70's

One of this :
Johan Dalgas Frisch is the son of Danish immigrant Svend Frisch and Margaret Ellen. Dalgas Frisch who came to reside in Brazil in 1927. Johan was registered at the Consulate of Denmark as he was born. His great-grandfather, Enrico Mylius Dalgas, gained fame in Denmark by transforming the desert region of Jutland in a vast forested area. His father, Svend Frisch, drew the majority of bird species in Brazil.
In 1950, he joined the industrial engineering degree from Mackenzie University, graduating in 1955. His first job was at the factory lines Current. In 1958, he traveled to Scotland, where he stage at the headquarters of empesa and wishes to know ornithologists and European collections of songs of birds recorded in Europe.
On returning to Brazil, Johan design a cardboard megaphone to record the singing of birds. His initial design was refined and Johan then create a dish for the same function. On a trip to the Pantanal, performs several recordings of songs of birds.
In 1962, Johan recorded his first album, Song of the Birds of Brazil, on vinyl LP, which was released simultaneously in Brazil, London and New York. This record remained eighteen weeks in a row for first place in the bestseller list in Brazil. The following year he released his second album, entitled Voices of the Amazon, which contains the song of the wren.
In 1964, launches the book "Birds in Brazil", co-authored with his father Svend. He begins his fight for the creation of Tumucumaque Park (which was created by decree signed by President Costa e Silva, in 1968, and enlarged and turned into Mountains National Park Tumucumaque in 2002), in the Brazilian Amazon. That same year, his son Christian was born Dalgas Frisch.
In 1976, designs and builds wastewater treatment of sewage from the International Airport of Guarulhos. Five years later, launched the second edition of "Brazilian Birds. In 1992, he received the title of Honorary Citizen of Texas, for having rescued and repatriated a peregrine falcon.
In 1994, he launched with his son Christian's book "Garden of hummingbirds. In 2001, launches the book "The 12 Songs of Brazil." His fourth book was released in 2002 entitled "Harmonious corners of America."
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