Search - Vincent Lopez :: Musically Speaking

Vincent Lopez
Musically Speaking
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Introduction/You Were Meant For Me
2. Ring On My Finger
3. Trees
4. Cha Cha Medley
5. Twixt Twelve And Twenty
6. Everytime I Get Some Money
7. Star Dust
8. Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
9. Mack The Knife
10. That's A Plenty

CD Details

All Artists: Vincent Lopez
Title: Musically Speaking
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Collector's Choice
Release Date: 6/8/2004
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Styles: Swing Jazz, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 617742105728, 0617742105728

Synopsis

Album Description

Right from the dawn of the Swing Era, Vincent Lopez?s band was big news; in fact, his orchestra made history in 1921 when it was the first to be featured on a remote radio broadcast (which also marked the first appearance of the catchphrase "Lopez speaking"). So the fact that this is the first CD to feature his band is a real head-scratcher, especially when you consider that Lopez kept his band together for 40 years! And we?ve caught them right in their prime, in the midst of their 20-year engagement at the Taft Hotel.

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CD Reviews

A forgotten legend of the "sweet band" era

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 01/25/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Genteel dance music from the bandleader who discovered the Hutton Sisters, Marion Hutton (who sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra) and actress-comedienne Betty Hutton, who he hired as singers in the mid-'30s edition of his band. Lopez was a relic of the 1920s "sweet band" era, where he shared the limelight with the likes of Paul Whiteman and Isham Jones, though he kept his band up and running for decades to come. Starting in 1941, he held a twenty year residency at the Taft Hotel -- these late '50s recordings came towards the end of that stint, with Lopez's well-polished showmanship much in evidence. The material was antiquated even when he was performing it here, in the heart of the rock'n'roll/pop vocals era -- although for many, that fustiness will definitely be part of the appeal. Cute stuff, even if he was a little long in the tooth at the time..."