Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Artist: Paul Whiteman Orchestra
Label: Pearl
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 727031971825
EAN: 0727031971825
ASIN: B000000X1Q


Release Date: 1993-11-18

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Tracks:

  1. Southern Rose
  2. Merry Widow Waltz/Suite-Three Shades Of Blue
  3. (A) Indigo
  4. (B) Alice Blue
  5. (C) Heliotrope
  6. I'm A Dreamer
  7. Nola
  8. Deep Purple
  9. Caprice Futuristic
  10. South Sea Isles
  11. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
  12. (B) Chinese
  13. (C) Cuban
  14. (D) Oriental
  15. It All Depends On You
  16. Parade Of The Tin Soldiers
  17. Liebestraum
  18. Park Avenue Fantasy
  19. When You're In Love
  20. A Night With Paul Whiteman At The Biltmore
  21. Signature Tune

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars "Concert" treasures by Paul Whiteman!.......2001-01-13

This outstanding Paul Whiteman collection consists mainly of "concert" pieces and arrangements from the 1920s and 1930s, all of them excellent and wholly deserving of reissue. Most noteworthy are Matty Malneck's wonderfully charming "Caprice Futuristic" from 1928, and Victor Herbert's "Suite of Serenades," originally written for Whiteman's 1924 "An Experiment in Modern Music," the famous concert that featured the premiere of George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue." Like "Rhapsody," these two pieces were orchestrated by "Grand Canyon Suite" composer Ferde Grofe.

Future "Some Like It Hot" song supervisor Matty Malneck is also represented by "Park Avenue Fantasy," the concert piece that yielded the popular song "Stairway To the Stars." And there is Peter DeRose's pre-pop-song concert version of "Deep Purple," another Whiteman commission.

The non-concert sides include "South Sea Isles," a very early George Gershwin tune in a very early Grofe arrangement, complete with musical quotes from Grieg and a great Dixieland-style ending, plus a joyous version of the DeSylva-Brown-Henderson classic, "It All Depends On You."

The label is to be praised for retaining the dynamic range of the original recordings through conservative noise suppression. The trade-off is a moderate level of surface noise, but the result more than justifies the means. These recordings sound great.

A "Volume II" is in order. Concert sides like "Soliloquy," "O Ya Ya," "Tchaikowskiana," and a host of others would make up a fine follow-up track list. Meanwhile, seriously consider this one!

4 out of 5 stars Whiteman is under-rated.......2000-08-02

Paul Whiteman is no Jelly Roll Morton but his orchestra was huge in the 1920's, playing every night at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. Amazingly, Whiteman's music has held up beautifully through the years and the musicianship displayed here is excellent. Whiteman is best known today as the man who gave Bing Crosby (then with the Rhythm Boys) his first big break, but the songs on this album don't feature Bing, just joyous Whiteman orchestral music. This is a time warp if there ever was one. For those of us born forty years after Whiteman was a hit, this gives us a taste of the Roaring 20's.

4 out of 5 stars Why he is forgotten today?.......2000-08-02

Paul Whiteman is no Jelly Roll Morton but his orchestra was huge in the 1920's, playing every night at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles. Amazingly, Whiteman's music has held up beautifully through the years and the musicianship displayed here is excellent. Whiteman is best known today as the man who gave Bing Crosby (then with the Rhythm Boys) his first big break, but the songs on this album don't feature Bing, just joyous Whiteman orchestral music. This is a time warp if there ever was one. For those of us born forty years after Whiteman was a hit, this gives us a taste of the Roaring 20's.

4 out of 5 stars This music by bandleader Paul Whiteman is excellent........1999-02-04

This music, brought into the future, seems like today those who enjoy Mr. Whiteman's music are in a wonderful journey through time. Such hits as 'Whispering,''The Japanese Sandman,'and 'Nola' deserve high regards today (probably even more) than they were praised seventy years ago. I would even go beyond the 'four star'catagory, but yes, there is at least one or two songs that maybe could been avoided on the album's release. Thanks again for the great music Paul Whiteman.

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  6. Doing Their Own Thing
  7. Musical Massage: In Tune
  8. James Street ~ Jimmy Ponder
  9. Sax for Christmas ~ Michael Paulo
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