Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Langlie cover story. Davidson was out to see the state for himself and meet its governor in person. "Oh, no-not again!" cried Langlie as he saw the newsmen. They stayed with him all day, winding up in the study of the governor's mansion, chuckling over album pictures of Langlie as a high-school student and baseball player...
Sometimes a successful one-shotter graduates into an annual or a quarterly, e.g., Screen Album Magazine, Baseball. But that is not the goal of the one-shot specialist, who is always looking for the magazine that will live big even if (unlike James Dean) it lives only once...
...demand for his arranging talents grew, he formed his own combo (tuba, banjo, drums and piano), which he expands to a full orchestra as the need arises. He scored his first big recording success in 1954, when Columbia commissioned him to arrange and do an orchestral recording of an album of schmalzy favorites to be issued under the title I Love Paris...
...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
...lovely days disappear, the planets turn in circles, but you walk straight toward what you cannot see: the dark days, the sagging skin." The lugubrious sentiment is by Poet Raymond Queneau, but the dark caramel voice which murmurs it in throbbing French in a newly released Columbia album belongs to a 29-year-old Parisian chanteuse named Juliette Greco. For U.S. listeners the album offers a fresh view of a singer whose literate, melancholy repertory and haunting voice have made her the musical idol of the existentialists and a reigning favorite along the music hall and nightclub circuit...