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...been overshadowed by his virtuoso performances of other people's work, though he has written several hundred pieces, among the better known being Gate Mouth Blues, Brother Bill and Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Hackett proves to have a real feeling for the Armstrong style, and his cornet solos, backed by authentic-sounding tuba, saxophone, banjo, trombone, piano and drums, are incisive and bouncy. Pick of the lot: Someday You'll Be Sorry, with Hackett's cornet and Sonny Russo's trombone taking turns playing obbligato to each other...
FUNNY GIRL (Capitol) is actually a fourth album triumph for Barbra Streisand. She sings nearly all the Jule Slyne-Bob Merrill songs, from the ragtime Cornet Man and up-tempo Don't Rain on My Parade to the ballads that are a fever chart of her love affair, from its first tender moments (People) to the dawn of doubt (Who Are You Now?). Danny Meehan is a lively musical addition as a vaudeville hoofer, but Sydney Chaplin sounds as if he needs to be wound...
...other hand, the sizeable musical score composed by Doris Schwerin is inept beyond belief, despite the announced research into foreign musical styles. The instrumentation calls for recorder, cornet, sackbut (ancestor of the trombone), 'cello, percussion, and piano (if there's any instrument ill-suited to the out-of-doors and to travel, it's the piano). One easily grasps that this score is meant to be satirical. But satirical music, like any other kind, can be good or bad. This is bad. (Having myself composed the score for the 1954 production of Marco, I know well what the problems...
...Wheeling airport, Sonny Day's six-piece combo-the same outfit that had blatted out High Hopes and Happy Days for Kennedy in 1960-struggled manfully on electric accordion, tuba, cornet, saxophone, trumpet and trombone to render Hail to the Chief. Rain was falling steadily when Kennedy arrived at the high school football stadium for the political rally. But 7,500 persons were nonetheless on hand to hear and cheer him. Coatless, Kennedy strode through the rain to the covered platform. "When I come back to West Virginia," he declared. "I feel as if I was coming home...
...mother worked as a maid in the mansion of ex-Governor Ichabod Goodwin. Both of his parents were members of the Salvation Army, and young Wes tooted the cornet while his father pounded the big bass drum...