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Come On-a Stan's House (Stan Freeman, harpsichord, with rhythm trio; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Talented Pianist Freeman first tried the harpsichord for background effect in Rosemary Clooney's bestselling Come On-a My House. He now shows that the old instrument sounds just as cheerful in the foreground of such tunes as Just One of Those Things, St. Louis Blues, September Song and Blue Room...
Mitch Miller, director of pop music for Columbia Records, got a telephone call last week that made him pull his beard. Musical bootleggers, said his tipster, were copying Rosemary Clooney's (and Columbia's) fast-selling disk Come on-a My House, then peddling it cut rate to distributors under phony Columbia labels...
...Bagpipes. Miller picks the tunes, picks the singers to record them, sometimes even picks the albums to sheath the records. Latest pickings: offbeat instrumentations, e.g., harpsichord background for Clooney, French horns for Crooner Guy Mitchell. Says Miller: "You've got to work out a gimmick that'll get people's attention and hold it. You need that sense of communication." One senseless communication: a Dinah Shore vocal backed by six caterwauling bagpipes. Admits Miller...
...certain sounds he makes better than others. Frankie Laine is sweat and hard words-he's a guy beating the pillow, a purveyor of basic emotions. Guy Mitchell is better with happy-go-lucky songs; he's a virile young singer, gives people a vicarious lift. Clooney is a barrelhouse dame, a hillbilly at heart...
Come on-a My House. A hectic Armenian Hurry On Down with strange and wonderful words by Wild William Saroyan. (Kay Armen; King), (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia...