Stanley Black - Film Spectacular III
Wednesday, 10. January 2007, 15:48:07
If you’re into spying atmospheres, big orchestras, musical comedies & choir « a la Bacharach », then this record would probably recorded for you & your aural pleasure…Better than i can do or write, here are precious informations about Stanley Black & writed by the excellent spaceagepop website.
… « A child prodigy, Black was active on the British music scene for over sixty years. He studied piano and attended the Matthay School of Music in London, and one of his first compositions won a competition sponsored by Melody Maker and was performed by the BBC Orchestra when he was just 12 years old. By the time he was 18, he was a working musician, playing with British dance bands such as Joe Orlando, Howard Jacobs, and Lew Stone. He often played with American jazz musicians such as Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins during their visits to England, and recorded a duet version of "Honeysuckle Rose" with Hawkins. Black developed a talent for transcribing music that made him a hot prospect for popular dance band leaders. He could listen to a recording and sit down and transcribe a dozen or more parts by ear, producing a dead-on copy of the original arrangement. Bandleader Harry Roy hired Black and paired him with Norman Yarlett in a double piano feature act, going so far as to change Yarlett's name so he could bill them as "Black and White." The group toured South America in 1937, and the trip made a profound impression on Black. For the rest of his life, Black enjoyed playing and promoting Latin American music. Black enlisted in the RAF early in World War Two, but he was discharged after less than a year due to ill health. He returned to Roy's band for a short time, but left to pursue work as an independent conductor and arranger. By 1944, he had become director of the BBC's house dance band, a job he held for nearly eight years. He became a mainstay of British popular music, appearing nearly every day with the BBC band.
He left the BBC in 1952 to join Decca Records as a staff conductor and arranger, but he remained active with the BBC for the rest of his professional career. He stayed with Decca until 1958, and averaged four albums a year under his own name, in addition to hundreds of uncredited work backing up singers and conducting smaller combos. Many of these albums, including an all-Lecuona album,Cuban Moonlight were released in the US on the London label. He also worked in the British film industry, arranging and composing soundtracks for nearly 200 films between 1946 and 1975. He served as musical director for the Associated British Pictures Corporation between 1958 and 1963. Among Black's credits are the score for Cliff Richards' British beach movie, "Summer Holiday," which won an award, as well as the theme used throughout the 1960s for Pathe newsreels, a staple of British movie-going experiences. He also composed the theme songs for numerous radio and television shows, most notably for "The Goon Show." He spent his last working years as a conductor, leading the BBC's Northern Ireland Orchestra in the late 1960s, and appearing frequently at "Pops" concerts. He was an enthusiastic proponent of popularizing music, commenting once that "Serious music shouldn't be pompous. 'West Side Story' should be in the same program as Beethoven." Although most of his own albums feature popular music, his one Grammaphone Award came in 1965 for his recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.
Black was highly respected by his fellow musicians for his expertise and efficient working habits, even when deafness set in in his late 60s. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1985. He was also a Life Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters, and Life President of the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain. Exotic Percussion is the album Space Age Pops fans are recommended to seek out. It's an expertly produced recording, typical of London's Phase Four period, featuring an excellent selection of such space age pop standards as "Miserlou" and "Caravan" in loud, brassy, percussion-stuffed arrangements »…
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Stanley Black
Film Spectacular III
« Les Plus Belles Musiques De Films n°1 »
© 1966 Decca PFS 4.088
Face 1 :
01. James Bond Medley
02. Chim Chim Cher-ee
03. Charade
04. More
Face 2 :
01. The Sound Of Music Medley
02. Main Title Theme From The Man With The Golden Arm
03. Black Orpheus Themes Carnival
04. Zorba’s Dance
link in the comments
Ripped at 256 kbps + artwork
artwork photos + LP courtesy of Calmos
Be Seeing You !
Now avalaible in (((STEREO))) !
fresh new link on the tail ... from comments
WIDGETIZE
number 6 # 10. January 2007, 15:48
new link fixed...
Anonymous # 10. January 2007, 21:01
Salut,
Dis, pourquoi as-tu laissé le Tiki dans l'image , pour faire une ambiance cinématographique?
Anonymous # 10. January 2007, 21:34
Cool spy grooves :) how can you go wrong, more please.
Thanks for the post, and the artwork.
number 6 # 10. January 2007, 21:49
Double -O- Soul # 10. January 2007, 22:11
Anonymous # 11. January 2007, 00:31
These files seem to be in mono.
number 6 # 11. January 2007, 07:13
Anonymous # 12. January 2007, 17:28
ça doit être la malédiction de Tiki!
De quoi faire une suite à "Ils sont fous, ces sorciers !" (1978, Georges Lautner)
[deux touristes en état d'ébriété urinent sur le socle d'un totem mauricien et sont victimes de son divin courroux]
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J'attends avec impatience, la version stéréo ...
number 6 # 12. January 2007, 20:35
Anonymous # 13. January 2007, 11:08
Bonjour Mr. 06,
Merci pour un autre "poste' excellente.
Anonymous # 15. January 2007, 18:04
bonjours number 06
tres belle mise en scene cinematographique de la pochette
je me calle la musique de suite
merci pour ce post en musicorama
Anonymous # 15. January 2007, 22:20
Merci No6!
Davide # 16. January 2007, 22:39
ciao
Anonymous # 17. January 2007, 17:19
C' est ce que j' aime sur ton blog, de l' éclectisme, un gros brin (voir une branchouille) d' excentricité le tout se mariant parfaitement avec des envies de libertés audacieuses !!! je viens d' écouter et je me suis fait un film tout du long :right: ! (avec une livinus tout de meme) bravo et merci ! voila un disque qui permet de s' évader :left: !!
Anonymous # 18. January 2007, 01:06
Excellent music. Thanks for sharing!
number 6 # 23. January 2007, 15:03
Anonymous # 24. January 2007, 15:39
merci pour ce superbe Phase 4 stereo+ de phase 4
fantastic! pokemi
Anonymous # 25. January 2007, 11:56
Muito bom!!!!
number 6 # 26. January 2007, 10:15
Be Seeing You!
Anonymous # 4. February 2007, 20:32
If you want more Stan Black, check :
oldvinyl.blogspot.com/2007/02/itv-themes.html
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Le G # 15. February 2007, 03:09
Anonymous # 26. October 2007, 20:30
Link isn't working for me
Anonymous # 31. October 2007, 13:40
When I type in the link it sends me here...http://www.stanpost.com/
Please reply...thanks
number 6 # 1. November 2007, 22:30
Sorry about my late, but i was a lot involved with n°2 in the village. Not easy to escape from here, unfortunately ... So here are new credits to Stanley.
hOOp://www.zshare.net/download/4605408702d8e1/
be seeing you !
Anonymous # 22. July 2008, 14:24
Nice blog man!, i love this music stuff.
This link is not working :(
:cry:
Anonymous # 22. July 2008, 14:26
Sorry it's working.......:lol:
Anonymous # 25. July 2008, 09:29
Agent 06, thanks for it, made me really curious. Keep up this cool blog. And thanks for the fish.
beazley