Soundproof - Ferrante And Teicher

The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!
Soundproof
Ferrante and Teicher

Cover Photo courtesy M.G.M. Pictures producers of "Forbidden Planet"
Westminster Records WP 6014
1956

From Billboard - September 8, 1956: All stops are pulled out to make this the most gimmicky hi-fi piano disk on the market. The highly accomplished team uses multi-tracking, altered tape speeds, gimmicked pianos, 17 microphones of various types, etc. There are many sounds here that have never been heard on a disk before, and most of the 12 selections are naturals for disk jockey variety. Try "Mississippi Boogie" for a sample. Among the selections are "What Is This Thing Called Love," Cumbanchero," etc.

What Is This Thing Called Love?

El Cumbanchero

Greensleeves

Mississippi Boogie

Mermaid Waltz

Man from Mars 

Baia

Breeze and I

Someone to Watch Over Me

African Echoes

Dark Eyes

Lover

Orchids In The Moonlight

The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!

Soundproof

Ferrante and Teicher

Cover Photo courtesy M.G.M. Pictures producers of "Forbidden Planet"

Westminster Records WST 15011

1958

From the back cover: What other duo-pianists can boast that they have played together wince the age of six? Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher were fellow prodigies at New York's famous Juilliard School of Music, and even while students they appeared as a team. After graduation they gave a few joint recitals, then decided to take time out to prepare a really distinctive repertoire. Together they returned to Juilliard, this time as fellow members of the faculty, and spent all their spare hours for the next year or so working over the standard pieces and cleansing them of every last hackneyed cliché. Their professional debut as a team took place quite a distance from eh concert hall, for they bowed in as a popular piano dup at New York's sophisticated penthouse might club, S[ivy's Roof. They were such a hit with the starlight crowd that they went on to more cosmopolitan boîtes like the Blue Angel, the Little Club and the Ritz-Carlton Terrace. Since 1947 they have been criss-crossing the country annually, winning laurels everywhere for what The New York Times called their "prodigious technical feats." Radio and television audiences know them for their guest stints on Piano Playhouse, and the Firestone, Telephone and Carnation courts. They have also appeared with leading symphony orchestra throughout the country. Their gift for blending the classic with the modern and the "heavy" with the "light," their extraordinary sensitivity, their technical perfection– these are just a few of the reason why one stern Manhattan critic, echoing the national consensus, called Ferrante and Teicher "the most exciting piano team of our time."

Peg-Leg Merengue

Brazil

Poinciana

Mama To Quero

Orchids In The Moonlight

Cumana

Tico-Tico

Frenesi

Mexican Hat Dance

Siboney

Loose Ends Merengue

La Cucaracha