There Are No Words

[Mark Stryker]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjbB-QMzA2g

[BERIGAN]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjbB-QMzA2g

Well, they didn't have the budget Nancy got for These Boots are Made for Walkin' clip...

I don't think I have ever seen him sing that young....could be worse....

[Mark Stryker]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjbB-QMzA2g

Well, they didn't have the budget Nancy got for These Boots are Made for Walkin' clip...

I don't think I have ever seen him sing that young....could be worse....

Actually, the vocal sounds pretty good to me. But the video?? What, exactly, is the emotion or feeling being expressed in, say, the opening fake mustache bit and then later on when he's hanging upside down? Also, the flippers crack me up.

[7/4]

Doesn't look like the video had too much to do with the music.

I dig the bouncy chicks. Like crazy man.

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[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes, it doesn't exactly tell a story, does it?

But, if it HAD told a story, it would have been banned.

MG

[JSngry]

Typical Scopitone craziness. The more of those things I see, the more I realize that insanity and inanity are seperated only by the letter "s", and that stands for Scopitone!

I wonder who the arranger was...I dug the chart, more or less.

Edited May 19, 2008 by JSngry

[catesta]

Jr. is no Sr., but still pretty good.

The video though, that's some crazy shit.

[user0815]

thanks for posting this great clip - my life will never be the same.

have not heard frank sinatra jr. singing before. well, to my ears he sounds like ... err... like a sinatra imitator !

in the mid 1960s he must have been in his early 20s - why sing this corny swing music ?

on the plus side ... this 1960s girls

[Mark Stryker]

I wonder who the arranger was...I dug the chart, more or less.

I was at one of our great used record stores today in Ann Arbor and found this cut on Jr.'s first album, "Young Love for Sale." It's on Reprise and the billing is "Frank Sinatra Jr. and the Sam Donahue Orchestra. A line credits Walt Stuart and Chuck Slagle with the arrangements but doesn't say who did which ones. Never heard of these guys before -- anybody know anything about them? Big Band/Studio journeymen?

[DukeCity]

I wonder who the arranger was...I dug the chart, more or less.

I was at one of our great used record stores today in Ann Arbor and found this cut on Jr.'s first album, "Young Love for Sale." It's on Reprise and the billing is "Frank Sinatra Jr. and the Sam Donahue Orchestra. A line credits Walt Stuart and Chuck Slagle with the arrangements but doesn't say who did which ones. Never heard of these guys before -- anybody know anything about them? Big Band/Studio journeymen?

I've seen tons of Walt Stuart charts in various dance bands. Some of them are record lifts that Walt did of other arrangers, some are his arrangements. I remember playing medleys called "Salute to the Mickey Bands #1" etc.

Seems there was a benefit concert in April '08 in Daytona Beach (FL?) to help Walt with medical bills. His website is under construction, but still has a phone number for those interested in purchasing charts.

[Larry Kart]

I know you were asking about those arrangers, but FWIW here's a Donahue bio:

http://www.hepjazz.com/bios/samdon.html

The Hep Donahue collections are definitely worth hearing. Some felt that Donahue's remolded version of the Shaw Orchestra was the best of the service bands.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

My memory may be playing trix but I have some recollection of Chuck Slagle's name coming up on early sixties R&B/Soul singles.

MG

[Mark Stryker]

I know you were asking about those arrangers, but FWIW here's a Donahue bio:

http://www.hepjazz.com/bios/samdon.html

The Hep Donahue collections are definitely worth hearing. Some felt that Donahue's remolded version of the Shaw Orchestra was the best of the service bands.

thanks for this. not a guy I knew anything about at all -- even though he's from Detroit. Bjorn and Gallert's Detroit jazz history "Before Motown" (UMich Press) has a few lines about him. He apparently led a band here from 1933-38.