The Roots of Ferrante and Teicher, Part 4: The Neurotic Goldfish

I hope the folks at the hip-a-roony hepster haven Beyond the Roots of Lounge™ are O.K.--they haven't posted a peep since their eight-line "beyond: retro" offering of a few days ago. We hope that no harm has befallen them.

Of course, here at Vintage Lounge, we don't care about hep. We care about music. But we're kind of odd that way. Imagine--the music coming first. So un-lounge-like.

And today's music has been provided by Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, duo-pianists who were tearing up their keyboards in 1960 Ferrante-and-Teicher fashion as early as 1944. The selections are Alec Wilder's 1938 miniature, The Neurotic Goldfish, and Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed's 1933 Misirlou-style classic, Temptation (a massive hit for Perry Como in 1945).

http://box.net/public/lee/files/619448.html The Neurotic Goldfish (Alec Wilder, arr. by Whittemore and Lowe), Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, duo-pianists, 1944 (from Victor 78).


http://box.net/public/lee/files/619852.html Temptation (Freed-Brown, arr. by Whittemore and Lowe), Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, duo-pianists, 1944 (from Victor 78).

Lee