Word: gloamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finian's Rainbow; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif. Broadway lit up the instant Ella sang How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, but success was a long time coming-32 years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement in the 1950s...
Roamin' in the Gloamin', one of his most popular tunes, and a 1911 track by that "loud, cheerful noise," Sophie Tucker, in which she belts out Some of These Days in a voice already impressively seamed and corrugated. The piano selections by Rachmaninoff (Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, recorded in 1919) and Moriz Rosenthal (various Chopin Preludes, recorded in 1929) are less successful, chiefly because the early acoustical method of recording tended to blur the percussive piano sound. But Rachmaninoff's glittering technique is there, and so is a remarkable and ornate cadenza that is preserved...