Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) Arranger/composer/vocalist Barbara Moore has died. Her DeWolfe album Vocal Shades and Tones is a library classic. Edited August 28, 2021 by Teasing the Korean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JSngry Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 I like that! Is it still available? How was this record marketed in it's original incarnation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 36 minutes ago, JSngry said: I like that! Is it still available? How was this record marketed in it's original incarnation? Vocal Shades and Tones was a library album, so it was not commercially available. A lot of library albums and composers were rediscovered through a combination of DJ culture and the "lounge" revival. Several tracks, such as "Hot Heels," appeared on comps, and the entire album was released at some point. Voices in Latin was a commercially available album. I have the CD reissue. Moore did lots of behind-the-scenes stuff also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 A confusing thing about those library records is that sometimes the tracks were commercially released with different titles, probably as a way to avoid detection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 That 'Hideaway" thing is especially nice. Are there writer and arranging credits for that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 32 minutes ago, JSngry said: That 'Hideaway" thing is especially nice. Are there writer and arranging credits for that? Yes, she is credited as composer and arranger on that track. Early on in that interview clip I posted above, she discusses her first studio experience as an arranger/conductor, and how the male orchestra was not prepared for this. It's a cool story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 I will look for this, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Both of those albums I posted are worth seeking out. VS&T is on Qobuz as a lossless download, if you can't find a CD or LP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 This is very sad news. She was ubiquitous over here for many years in vocal groups such as the Ladybirds, as well as being featured prominently in the more jazzy De Wolfe library sessions. Very talented arranger as well - RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 2 hours ago, sidewinder said: This is very sad news. She was ubiquitous over here for many years in vocal groups such as the Ladybirds, as well as being featured prominently in the more jazzy De Wolfe library sessions. Very talented arranger as well - RIP. So she is fairly well-known in the UK? In the US, she is very much an underground, cult figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Nelson Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 Barbara Moore was the singer on the Roger Webb Sound's 'Vocal Patterns'. Here's one track which qualifies for entry in TTK's 'Now Sound' or 'Swinging Jet Set': Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said: So she is fairly well-known in the UK? In the US, she is very much an underground, cult figure. Same here - very much a cult figure. Having said that, she appeared on TV in vocal backing groups a fair bit back in the day (60s-70s). The Ladybirds in particular. Edited August 28, 2021 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 This may or may not be a synergy, but that Voices In Latin record was released in America by Pulsar, which was a subsidiary of Mercury, which was where Walter Raim had been a few years before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Bill Nelson said: Barbara Moore was the singer on the Roger Webb Sound's 'Vocal Patterns'. Here's one track which qualifies for entry in TTK's 'Now Sound' or 'Swinging Jet Set': Oh, yes, that has that sound indeed! It makes me want to misbehave and uncork a bottle of wine, something that I shouldn't do tonight, as I've come down with something. (Not COVID, thankfully; I got tested and the results came back negative.) 1 hour ago, JSngry said: This may or may not be a synergy, but that Voices In Latin record was released in America by Pulsar, which was a subsidiary of Mercury, which was where Walter Raim had been a few years before. And the Walter Raim albums on MTA have a black label, like that of Pulsar!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 28, 2021 Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 well, label color is meaningless, but who you network with isn't! So, since Raim was already maybe working in that general area when he was with Mercury, maybe he got her name around that world, or something. It's not like people just call you up and say, hey, we've got a pretty beneath-the-radar sub-sub-sul label here, you want to be on it? Also on Mercury, Spanky & Our Gang, whose more "deep" cuts are would not be out of place here...so something was going onat Mercury in the late-60s, although what it is, don't ask me. Somebody there knew who she was at some point, or else that record would not be on that label. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2021 7 minutes ago, JSngry said: well, label color is meaningless, but who you network with isn't! So, since Raim was already maybe working in that general area when he was with Mercury, maybe he got her name around that world, or something. It's not like people just call you up and say, hey, we've got a pretty beneath-the-radar sub-sub-sul label here, you want to be on it? Also on Mercury, Spanky & Our Gang, whose more "deep" cuts are would not be out of place here...so something was going onat Mercury in the late-60s, although what it is, don't ask me. Somebody there knew who she was at some point, or else that record would not be on that label. Of course, I was just kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Ok, wasn't sure. Saul Goode then. Looking at Pulsar...it doesn't look like something that would have naturally landed there...looks like a R&B label mostly. https://www.discogs.com/label/157960-Pulsar-Records US soul record label located in Los Angeles, California and founded in 1968. The label's president was Irwin Garr, and the label was distributed by Mercury Record Productions, Inc. The label signed the production duo of Mac Rebennack and Harold Battiste (Halmac Productions), who produced King Floyd & The Three Queens for the label. But there was an almost immediate (chronologically) intersection with Morgan Music, the UK label which released the Sounds of Latin record as well as this one (ANY idea what it is?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgcim Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 28 minutes ago, JSngry said: Ok, wasn't sure. Saul Goode then. Looking at Pulsar...it doesn't look like something that would have naturally landed there...looks like a R&B label mostly. https://www.discogs.com/label/157960-Pulsar-Records US soul record label located in Los Angeles, California and founded in 1968. The label's president was Irwin Garr, and the label was distributed by Mercury Record Productions, Inc. The label signed the production duo of Mac Rebennack and Harold Battiste (Halmac Productions), who produced King Floyd & The Three Queens for the label. But there was an almost immediate (chronologically) intersection with Morgan Music, the UK label which released the Sounds of Latin record as well as this one (ANY idea what it is?) That won't do for my bachelor's tomb at all. Some nice things on Vocal Shades and Tones, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 29, 2021 Report Share Posted August 29, 2021 Honestly, I still ahve a hard time buying into "library music" for whatever reason...it all seems like music done on spec, which is what it is, what any "commercial music" is, really. But in the end, it all seems a little amorphous. Like well-arranged and played job music swathed in narcotic reverb. The surface is beautiful, though. But that "Hideaway" thing...I feel that one. They got the whole album on the YouTubes: Like Jackie & Roy's Grass, only....better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sidewinder Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) Mark Myers did a Barbara Moore overview here - https://www.jazzwax.com/2018/02/barbara-moore-swinging-pop.html I’d forgotten that she did all those TV sessions with Dusty Springfield and Sandi Shaw as well. Edited August 30, 2021 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 She also arranged this - which most people of ‘a certain age’ here in the UK will immediately recognise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vc3U1X7co Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted August 30, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 8/29/2021 at 9:20 PM, JSngry said: Honestly, I still ahve a hard time buying into "library music" for whatever reason...it all seems like music done on spec, which is what it is, what any "commercial music" is, really. But in the end, it all seems a little amorphous. Like well-arranged and played job music swathed in narcotic reverb. The surface is beautiful, though. Keep in mind that libraries commissioned all kinds of styles for various moods. Some A-list composers and musicians who were between assignments contributed. There are some fascinating library albums. For example, Morricone and Nicolai did a ten-album set of avant-garde stuff. It is as good as any comparable music in their regular catalogs, perhaps even more interesting than some of the others they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted August 30, 2021 Report Share Posted August 30, 2021 I know, just haven't heard anything yet that "transcends". Tried that Clarke/Boland stuff, didn't really sink in. But I have an admittedly/relatively small sample size of this stuff, which certainly appears to be massive in scope. Did I read the one Discogs page right that John McLaughlin played on the S&T record? Shouldn't be surprised! What about that Chiitra Neogy record? What a trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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