Herman Finck and his Orchestra - 'Sally' Selection (Kern) (1921) скачать в хорошем качестве

Herman Finck and his Orchestra - 'Sally' Selection (Kern) (1921)

Herman Finck and his Orchestra recorded this selection from 'Sally' on 8 September 1921. The selection is well-played, but it was recorded at a time where Columbia's recording philosophy had changed. The full-bodied and immediate sound of a decade earlier had slowly but surely given way to somewhat more recessed sound quality, and in the 1920s the trend continued, producing many records of significantly substandard quality. Here, as is so often the case, the orchestra is clearly a good one, and solo passages can be heard with reasonable clarity, but the general impression is that the performers are playing in an adjacent room. The general sound quality is thin, wiry and intermodulated. Such a shame! From Wikipedia: Sally is a musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Clifford Grey and book by Guy Bolton (inspired by the 19th century show, Sally in our Alley), with additional lyrics by Buddy De Sylva, Anne Caldwell and P. G. Wodehouse. The plot hinges on a mistaken-identity: Sally, a waif, is a dishwasher at the Alley Inn. She poses as a famous foreign ballerina and rises to fame (and finds love) through joining the Ziegfeld Follies. There is a rags to riches story, a ballet as a centrepiece, and a wedding as a finale. 'Look for the Silver Lining' continues to be one of Kern's most familiar songs. The song is lampooned by another song, 'Look for a Sky of Blue,' in Rick Besoyan's satirical 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine. The piece was first produced by Florenz Ziegfeld on Broadway in 1920 and ran for 570 performances, one of the longest runs on Broadway up to that time. The show was designed as a debut star vehicle for Marilyn Miller. It had a successful London run and was revived several times on Broadway and in the West End. Since World War II, it has had few productions. The musical was adapted into a 1925 silent film and a 1929 musical film.