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THE RAMBLERS

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In years of dance-going, I have heard and danced to the music of America's finest orchestras, but it is my opinion that your orchestra plays the most danceable musical arrangements I have ever heard. Your "presentations" are the equal of the superior arrangements of Fred Waring's orchestra, which plays fine choral arrangements but does not play dance music. ( Edward F. Kennedy, special advisor of the American Military Service in Bavaria (Germany)) in a leter to Theo Uden Masman, the leader of the band (ca. 1949)

De Ramblers: Recordings from a post-war Brussels

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I wonder if the way this "endorsement" that compares Masman's music to that of FRED WARING is featured prominently here is doing the band much of a favor if SWING/jazz fans are to be attracted to these reissues (Fred Waring, of all band leaders .... shudder .... ) ;) ;) ;)

I have most of the Ramblers LPs released on the PANACHORD label quite a long time ago, and while those with U.S. guest solists stand out, quite a few other recordings on these LPs are very nice too (though these pre-war recordings do include their share of dross that really has dated pretty badly and shows the ability to swing is not something sustained that easily all the time ;)).

Will probably get this new reissue as the track listing sounds rather original (not the umpteenth early post-war re-recording of In The Mood or Chattanooga Choo Choo etc., though yet another version of Americna patrol apparently could not be avoided ;)).

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