Thursday, March 22, 2012

Toonerville Trolly : 1940 - 1944 - Raymond Scott

Toonerville Trolly : 1940 - 1944 - Raymond Scott

Biography

Born: September 10, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s

Composer, bandleader, and contriver Raymond Scott was among the unheralded pioneers of contemporary experimental music, a figure whose mother-wit and influence have seeped almost subliminally into the mass cultural consciousness. As a air-built whose name is largely unknown yet whose music is immediately recognizable, Scott's was a course of conduct stuffed with contradictions: though his at daybreak work anticipated the breathless invention of bebop, his obsession with perfectionism and memorization was the to a high degree antithesis...

Track list

Theme; Pretty Little Peticoat
At each Arabian House Party
Bird Seed Special
A Million Dreams Ago
The Peanut Vendor
The Toy Trumpet
Christmas Night in Harlem
Tiajuana
Catepiller Creep
Four Beat Shuffle
Eagle Beak
When Cootie Left the Duke
On the Jersey Side
An American in Russia
Mocassin Glide
Pop Goes the Weasle
The Lark Leaped In
T'ain't Me
Shoo Shoo Baby
People Will Say We're in Love
In a 18th Century Drawing Room
Toonerville Trolley
Two Way Stretch
A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Manhattan Research Inc.
The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Manhattan Research Inc.
The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
The Music of Raymond Scott: Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Manhattan Research Inc.
The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Manhattan Research Inc.
The Music of Raymond Scott - Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights

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