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Friday, July 16, 2010

Dances Wild - Russ Case And His Orchestra

The Salior's Dance
Dances Wild
Russ Case And His Orchestra
Arranged by Russ Case
Produced and Directed by Herman Diaz, Jr.
Photograph by Murray Laden
Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, December 4, 12 and 20, 1956
Vik LX-1085
1957

Russ Case, at the time of his death (1964), was handling arranging chores on The Jackie Gleason Show. He was also involved in arranging a number of concept albums Gleason produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Sabre Dance
The Doll House
War Dance For Wooden Indians
Danza Lucumi
Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy
The Kerry Dance
Spanish Dance
The Dagger Dance
Ritual Fire Dance
Gypsy Dance
The Sailor's Dance

4 comments:

  1. VERY unusual tune! I LOVE it!

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  2. Cool! Russ Case was my grandfather and it's nice to see someone take an interest in his music/art. He has a couple songs on the Space Age Pop CD's that came out in the mid-90's (Mallets in Wonderland is one of them). Check amazon for info on them (or try Ebay).

    Scott

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  3. Cool! Russ Case was my grandfather and it's nice to see someone take an interest in his music/art. He has a couple songs on the Space Age Pop CD's that came out in the mid-90's (Mallets in Wonderland is one of them). Check amazon for info on them (or try Ebay).

    Scott

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  4. Thanks Scott! You're grandfather's work ranks right up there with many of the great space age composers!

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