Arden-Ohman Dance Orch. 1928 - Will You Remember? Will You Forget?
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Victor Arden / Phil Ohman und Ihre Orchester mit Refraingesang - Kannst du Dich an Mich errinnen? [Will You Remember? Will You Forget?] Slow-Fox (Simon, Grey, Gensler) [from a musical comedy “Ups-A-Daisy”], Electrola 1928 (recorded in USA; German pressing)
NOTE: I’m presenting this forgotten “rainy tune” for it perfectly matches today’s grey skies in Poland. Also, I think there’s nothing so picturesque in photography like a rainy day: there’s everything in it: motion, drama, running away, waiting, love - when the lovers’ couple is waiting in a gate for the sunshine - sadness, contemplation, etc. etc. In my opinion, the well-trained duet of piano-virtuoses Arden and Ohman, does a very good job in this recording. The arrangement is perfect, also the artistic elements, like the emotional fluctuations are present in this lovely rendition. The song was presented in a short-lived Broadway production “Ups-A-Daisy” in 1928 and has not gained any wider popularity, as it seems. The more pleased I feel to recall it today.
Thanks to your post here, the memory is kept alive....
Oh my, is this song lovely. It brings me great nostalgia for some reason.
Thank you for uploading it! It's an absolute treat.
I enjoyed this disc and arrangement before I started school, long long ago. It is among several thousand others, soon to become part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
The covers for the sheet music were also a thing to be treasured. I still buy the odd one when something catches my eye. This is a really nice song, that's for posting it here.
I absolutely second your admiration to the old sheet notes, as - sometimes - the true objets of Art Deco and of the publishing art of past times. In my childhood, dozens of those little masterpieces were scattered in corners of the old bookchests at my home or on the unused pianos of my aged aunts. I feel a heartache when I remember some of them - so well preserved and so-a-beautiful, and probably - thrown away by someone, after their owners' deaths. They emerge from time to time on the web auctions in Poland- usually reaching the enormous prices. So many of them had been destroyed during the 2ndWW in Poland!
Yes, I bought one a couple of weeks ago and another (I'll See You In My Dreams) I have framed and put on my bedroom wall. They are such a treasure from an age when art was such an integral part of selling music.
Absolutely smashing presentation! I love this arrangement for its blend of the contemporary with the more formal, traditional elements -- it has something for all tastes of that time. Arden and Ohman indeed had a fine orchestra, with the twin pianos distinguishing the band from many of its pop music peers. I share your feelings about rain photography -- it lends such atmosphere, both literally and figuratively; in fact, I'm one in the minority, I suppose, in actually enjoying rainy days. Splendid!
I share your liking for this band, although I've never been any sort of a fan of "twin pianos", so-a popular in past times - like Rawicz & Landauer, to mention only the premier league. Arden and Ohman are more restrained in bringing out their solos and in arrangements they make - as you mentioned - a very considerate blend of their pianos with traditional dance band sound. My regards to another rainy-days lover! :-)))
Wonderful, a band I have always loved and great song, enjoying (unfortunately) from my hospital bed, thank you for keeping me sane and entertained.
I love the music you share and you "hook" me on your absolutely wonderful pictures : )
Thank you :-))))
lovely
Thanks! :-)
Thanks.
Arden & Ohman are among my favorites and this one is exactly what one might expect: peppy rhythms, superb orchestration, a lovely vocal... I would have liked to know who is the vocalist, though. Isn't he identifiable?
The vocalist is Lewis James
Thank you for letting me know!
This song was featured in Luchino Visconti's 1969 film, "The Damned", as radio music. The section immediately following the vocal was used in the scene where the character, Martin (Helmut Berger), is in his girlfriend Olga's (Florinda Bolkan) apartment and turns on the radio while waiting for her return. The flip side of this recording called, "Ups-a-Daisy", was used in the same film in a later scene where the character, Martin, has fallen asleep on Olga's bed and she returns to the apartment from her job as a (probable porn) model.
Do you have the lyrics?