Cinderella Blues and Sunny Vegas Nights
Music CD Program
Nov-Dec 2006
Part 1
Before You Accuse Me / Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992)
Tears in Heaven / Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992)
Sonata No. 3, mv1(adagio) /JS Bach / Hilary Hahn, violin / Partitas 2 & 3 , and Sonata No. 3 (CD) / Sony (1997)
Here’s That Rainy Day / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Live at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
Without a Song / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
In the Still of the Night/ Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
Loneliness Of Evening / Stuart Damon / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella [1965 Television Cast] (CD) / Sony (1993), recorded 1964
In My Own Little Corner /Lesley Ann Warren / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella [1965 Television Cast] (CD) / Sony (1993), recorded 1964
The Prince Is Giving A Ball / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella [1965 Television Cast] (CD) / Sony (1993), recorded 1964
Impossible: It's Possible / Julie Andrews and Edith Adams / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
Royal Dressing Room Scene / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
Waltz for a Ball / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella [1965 Television Cast] (CD) / Sony (1993), recorded 1964
Stepsisters' Lament /Jessica Molaskey / Make Believe (CD) [Broadway songs] / PS Classics (2004)
Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful/ Stuart Damon and Lesley Ann Warren / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella [1965 Television Cast] (CD) / Sony (1993), recorded 1964
Monologue / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
You Make Me Feel So Young / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
The Second Time Around / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
Sinatra Speaks on Segregation / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
Moonlight in Vermont / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc1: Recorded at the Sands, November 1961 / Reprise (2006)
Layla / Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992), live concert on MTV, video version of concert also produced
Violin Concerto, mv2 (andante) / Samuel Barber / Hilary Hahn, violin / Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos (CD) / Sony (2000)
Running On Faith / Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992), live concert on MTV, video version of concert also produced
Part 2
Boulevard of Broken Dreams / Tony Bennett - duet with Sting / Duets: An American Classic (CD) / Sony–BMG (2006)
Everything Is Moving Too Fast / Jessica Molaskey / by Peggy Lee and Dave Barbour / A Good Day (CD) / PS Classics (2003)
Violin Concerto, mv3 (presto in moto) / Samuel Barber / Hilary Hahn, violin / Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos (CD) / Sony (2000)
A Lovely Night/ Julie Andrews / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Frank Sinatra / Count Basie and his Orchestra / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc2: Recorded at the Sands, January-February 1966 / Reprise (2006)
La Noche de la Encantamiento (mv4 – 1st half) / La Noche de los Mayas / Enrique Batiz, conductor / Musica Mexicana, Vol. 2 (CD) / ASV (1993)
Rollin’ & Tumblin’/ Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992), live concert on MTV, video version of concert also produced
Old Love / Eric Clapton / Unplugged (CD) / Reprise (1992), live concert on MTV, video version of concert also produced
Smile / Tony Bennett - duet with Barbra Streisand / Duets: An American Classic (CD) / Sony–BMG (2006)
Cinderella Blues / Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra / Herb Wiedoeft & Jesse Stafford Orchestras, 1922-1930 (CD) / Timeless Records (2002), CBC, this track originally recorded in 1923 on Brunswick label, website is
Maybe You’ll Be the One [Who’ll Be the One To Care] / Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra / Herb Wiedoeft & Jesse Stafford Orchestras, 1922-1930 (CD) / Timeless Records (2002), CBC, this track originally recorded in 1928 on Brunswick label, website is
I Can’t Get Started / by Cole Porter / Frank Sinatra / Count Basie and his Orchestra / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc3: Recorded at Caesar’s Palace, March 1982 / Reprise (2006)
My Heart Stood Still / by Rodgers and Hart / Frank Sinatra / Count Basie and his Orchestra / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc4: Recorded at the Sands, January-February 1987 / Reprise (2006)
The Search / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
Just in Time / Tony Bennett - duet with Barbra Streisand / Duets: An American Classic (CD) / Sony–BMG (2006)
Mother and Daughter March / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
The Wedding / Julie Andrews / Rodgers & Hammerstein / Cinderella (1957 Television Cast) (CD) / Sony 1990
You Make Me Feel So Young / Frank Sinatra / Count Basie and his Orchestra / Sinatra – Vegas, Disc2: Recorded at the Sands, January-February 1966 / Reprise (2006)
Keep On Growing / Derek & the Dominos—includes Eric Clapton and guest Duane Allman / Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (CD) / Polydor-A&M (1970)
NOTES
I made the program Cinderella Blues because, during our vacation on Cape Cod this year, I became aware of several very special recordings of live music performances that had historic significance. These experiences were from:
FM Radio (listening to Jonathan Schwartz making people aware that the Sinatra family had produced a 4-CD set called Sinatra-Vegas, spanning the period 1961-1987
Public Television (the original CBS 1957 live TV production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella musical, written for TV)
A friend telling me about the song, Tears in Heaven, by Eric Clapton, who lost his four-year-old son in a fall from their high-rise apartment in New York. The song was part of his live concert album, Unplugged, made years later in the early 1990s.
Mexican symphonic film music (La Noche de los Mayas) by Silvestra Revueltas that I heard this season at Avery Fisher Hall, performed by the remarkable American Symphony Orchestra (ASO)
Also, beautiful and dramatic violin studio recordings I have been increasing listening to lately/ played by Hilary Hahn -- CDs of Bach Solo Violin, Barber Concerto, and the Ponce Concerto (another Mexican composer featured on the ASO concert). These seem to extend outward both the dramatic and introspective aspects of music described above.
Much of the music portrays unreal or bizarre environments, in which something beautiful or striking emerges in the midst of the chaos or pain or insensitivity.
It was also interesting to find unexpected song titles during my Amazon and Internet searches.
One concept and phrase I created for myself was that of a "Cinderella Blues." this came from my listening to all the Eric Clapton blues numbers and then coming back to the Cinderella story. But it turns out that a very good jazz orchestra (Herb Wiedoeft) in Los Angeles in 1923 had composed and recorded a song by that name, because they had become the jazz orchestra of a hotel featuring the Cinderella Roof Ballroom. This song is included here in Part 2, along with another of their tracks, very different in style. The Cinderella song was also recorded again in 1928, after another band member, Jesse Stafford, took over when Herb Wiedoeft died in a car accident. But this version has much more of Dixieland style, which is livelier, certainly, but lacking the haunting blues feeling and the unity and intensity of the orchestra in wandering and sliding forward together.
“Say goodnight, Dino”
“Yes, Frank”
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