Showing posts with label Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show. Show all posts

November 29, 2021

Al Jolson articles/mentions


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Al Jolson - 1920
photographer unknown
     
     
mentions:      
     
Al Jarreau ~ Breakin' Away & scat     
Peggy Lee ~ Is That All There Is?     
     
      
      
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

January 31, 2021

Sammy Cahn articles/mentions

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Doris Day - Love Me or Leave Me     
Guy Lombardo ~ Auld Lang Syne     
Frank Sinatra ~ September of My Years 
      
     
     
      
     
Sammy Cahn - ca 1958    
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January 16, 2019

20,000 vinyl LPs 165: Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show

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10" vinyl LP
album cover photographer unknown 
photo of album by Styrous®


This is a recording of the 1953 television special celebrating the Ford Motor Company's 50th anniversary which brought together two of the greatest leading ladies Broadway has ever known Ethyl Merman (link below) and Mary Martin (link below). The highlight of the program is Merman and Martin's 13-minute duet medley, where they sing the songs that made them famous. Martin performs a brilliantly comic routine about changes in fashion over the first half of the 20th century; it was staged by director Jerome Robbins (link below).           


10" vinyl LP detail
album cover photographer unknown 
detail photo of album by Styrous®


The TV Special was broadcast on June 15, 1953, and featured a stunning array of music and movie talent: Marian Anderson, Wally Cox (Mr. Peepers), Bing Crosby, Eddie Fisher, Oscar Hammerstein II, Anna Held, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Sinatra, Lowell Thomas, Rudy Vallee, and many other stars!      


10" vinyl LP detail
detail photo of album by Styrous®


The recording is listed in the United States Library of Congress (link below) as an historical recording in the Performing Arts Encyclopedia as part of the Show Music on Record category. The original film was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on May 3 & 4 of 1963 (link below).     


10" vinyl LP detail
album cover photographer unknown 
detail photo of album by Styrous®


Merman sings “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and “Mademoiselle from Armetières” and Martin & Merman perform a Vaudeville Pantomime, “ Your Folks and My Folks” by (Fields, Hall; Carlin America) which was recorded in 1925 by Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (“The Happiness Boys”).      

Together, Martin & Merman perform a medley:  

1. There’s No Business Like Show Business (Berlin)
2. A Wonderful Guy (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
3. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (Edwards, Madden)
4. Wait ‘Till the Sun Shines Nellie (Sterling, Von Tilzer)
5. I’m the Sheik of Araby (Smith, Snyder, Wheeler)
6. When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along (Woods)
7. Melancholy Baby (Burnett, Norton)
8. You Made Me Love You (McCarthy, Monaco)
9. Mississippi Mud (Barris, Cavanaugh)
10. I Cried For You (Arnheim, Freed, Lyman)
11. I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles (Kenbrovin, Kellette)
12. I’m Always Chasing Rainbows (Mc Carthy, Carroll)
13. I’m in the Mood for Love (Fields, McHugh)
14. I Love a Parade (Arlen, Kohler)
15. I’d Climb the Highest Mountain (Clare, Brown)
16. I’m Sitting on Top of the World (Henderson, Lewis, Young)
17. I Got a Feeling You’re Fooling (Brown)
18. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (Fields, McHugh)
19. I’ll Get By (Turk, Ahlert)
20. You’re Just in Love (Berlin)
21. I’m Gonna Wash that Man Right Outa My Hair (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
22. I Get a Kick Out of You (Porter)
23. I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Porter)
24. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Porter)
25. I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)
26. Indian Love Call (Friml)
27. Tea For Two (Caesar, Youmans)
28. Stormy Weather (Arlen, Koehler)
29. Isn’t it Romantic? (Rodgers & Hart)
30. I Got Rhythm (Gershwin)
31. There’s No Business Like Show Business     




10" vinyl LP label, side 2
photo by Styrous®     
     
   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A – Ethel Merman And Mary Martin - The Actual Recording Of The Duet From The Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show, Conductor, Arranged By [Orchestra] – Jay Blackton, Producer – Leland Hayward, Stage Manager [Staged By] – Jerome Robbins

Side 2:
   
B1 – Mary Martin - Mountain High, Valley Low, Directed By [Orchestra] – Raymond Scott, written by Bernard Hanighen*, Raymond Scott
   
B2 – Ethel Merman - Eadie Was A Lady, Directed By [Orchestra] – Jay Blackton, written by B. G. De Sylva, R. Whiting, written by Herb B. Nacio*
   
B3 – Mary Martin - I’ll Walk Alone, Directed By [Orchestra] – Camarata*, written by Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
   
Notes:

A - Recorded During Telecast

Ethel Merman And Mary Martin ‎– The Actual Recording Of The Duet From The Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show
Label: Decca ‎– DL 7027
Format: Vinyl, 10", LP
Country: US
Released: 1953
Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Music Hall, Soundtrack, Vocal



Viewfinder links:
   
Bing Crosby            
Mary Martin     
Ethel Merman       
Jerome Robbins     
Raymond Scott     
Frank Sinatra          
    
   
Net links:
      
MOMA screening       
   
YouTube links:              
    
Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show  
     Mary Martin & Ethel Merman Medley (11 min., 30 sec.)   
     Mary Martin & Ethel Merman Medley (3 min. video)   
     Mary Martin - Fashion Show (6 min. 40 sec. video)     
     1953 Ford 50th Anniversary - original commercial        



Styrous® ~  Wednesday, January 16. 2019   


           






Marian Anderson articles/mentions

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Marian Anderson ~ Sings   
    


mentions:    
Ford 50th Anniversary Televsion Show    
Carl Van Vechten ~ The Harlem Renaissance 
    
    
     
     
     
    
Marian Anderson       
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Eddie Fisher articles/mentions

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Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show         
Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba      
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Eddie Fisher - Jan. 27, 1964 
Desert Inn 
photographer unknown 
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
    







Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata articles/mentions

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Leonard Bernstein ~ On the Town   
Ford 50th Anniversary Television Show  
  


Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata     
date & photographer unknown    

  


  










January 15, 2019

Jule Styne articles/mentions

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mentions:        
Gypsy ~        
     Ethel Merman & the Hungry i        
     Jule Styne ~ Gypsy (reel - reel tape)        
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits (reel - reel tape)       
        
 
    
date & photographer unknown