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Joe Reisman and His Orchestra - Aquarius

"The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously". ------G. Leibniz --- Click below button to find out more about the artist and song performed. JOE REISMAN After studying music at Baylor University and the University of Texas at El Paso, Reisman got jobs playing sax with a variety of big bands, including Bob Crosby, Louis Prima, Jack Teagarden, and Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra. By the late 1940s, he'd decided it was time to give up playing and touring and settle for the security of arranging and producing. He hooked up with singer Patti Page just as she was hitting the big time, and he helped put together a string of hits, including "Tennessee Waltz" and "How Much is That Doggy in the Window?" He also started working in television and provided the music for a number of mid-1950s variety shows such as "The Oldsmobile Hour" and "NBC's Shower of Stars." After Page, he teamed up with the Ames Brothers and eventually became a member of the staff of RCA Victor in Hollywood. While with RCA, he recorded several albums of light easy listening fare, and had a small hit with a cover of Ross Bagdasarian's tune, "Armen's Theme." He moved from RCA to Roulette Records and became one of that label's leading producers, as well as continue to record occasionally himself. He was a classic example of the producer who took all the cares on his back, and acts ranging from Henry Mancini to the Grateful Dead have recalled him as being "always worried." As Roulette's decline became evident in the early 1960s, Reisman took the opportunity to return to RCA. There he replaced Dick Peirce as Mancini's producer, and Reisman produced virtually all of Mancini's recordings from Our Man in Hollywood in 1964 on, for nearly 30 years. Well-respected in his industry, Reisman went on to produce nearly 1,000 recordings and helped create 14 million-selling singles and 8 gold albums. Nominated for the Grammy, he had been recognized by the Disney-sponsored California Institute of the Arts as well as the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. AQUARIUS A song from the 1968 Musical "Hair" with music written by Galt MacDermot. The show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including the 3 million-selling original Broadway cast recording. MHO A well balanced orchestral arrangement of the famous song from the equally famous musical. Moods range from hopeful and happy to serene and thoughtful. The outspoken rhythm - emphasized by drums and bass - gives the song a kind of 'down to earthness' which forms a nice contrast with the "spacial atmosphere" mainly evoked by the strings. I especially like the tempo in which the theme is being played here : not too slow but not too fast either - i.o.w. "just right" :) "Aquarius" being one of those "film themes that became easy listening evergreens" - this title surely could not be forgotten on this channel :) ! Enjoy.