medjuck Posted October 11, 2018 Report Posted October 11, 2018 I've been listening to a lot of the AFRS Jubilee shows (I've downloaded about 150 of them) while I work out or drive to LA. This morning I listened to one from May 1948 featuring "The Neal Hefti Quartet": Hefti on trumpet, Joe Mondragon bass, Blnky Garner drums and Jimmy Rowles piano. They back a couple of singers (including Hefti's wife Fran Warren) during which Hefti plays some nice obbilgates (sp?) and Rowles, of course is great. They also play two numbers on their own. Hefti introduces the first one as "untitled" and claims it's from a Woody Herman arrangement that was introduced on "The ramp of the Burbank Theater". It turns out to be "I'm Looking Over a 4 Leaf Clover" which they play cornily and during which Hefti vocalizes by repeating the fiirst line over and over. It's hard to listen to and not funny. The second number is introduced as "Channel One" supposedly in homage to a local radio station but what they then play is Moose the Mooche and they play it well. A lot of the humor on these shows is dated (though some of it's pretty funny still) but this is some of the of the worst attempts at humor I've heard on the entire series. Maybe they were all stoned. Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted October 11, 2018 Report Posted October 11, 2018 How big was Spike Jones popularity-wise in 1948? And wasn't Red Ingle's spoof of "Nature Boy" a hit the same year? An attempt at jumping on the bandwagon, maybe? Quote
JSngry Posted October 11, 2018 Report Posted October 11, 2018 Was Hefti married to Fran Warren or Francis Wayne? Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted October 11, 2018 Report Posted October 11, 2018 Frances Wayne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Wayne Quote
medjuck Posted October 11, 2018 Author Report Posted October 11, 2018 Yes. Brain fart on my part and Frances Wayne is the singer on the program. Quote
Ken Dryden Posted October 24, 2018 Report Posted October 24, 2018 I had a good laugh when l learned that my friend Scott Yanow was unaware of the joke behind Hefti's "Flight of the Foo Birds." Quote
Ted O'Reilly Posted October 24, 2018 Report Posted October 24, 2018 8 hours ago, Ken Dryden said: I had a good laugh when l learned that my friend Scott Yanow was unaware of the joke behind Hefti's "Flight of the Foo Birds." Is the punch line "...wear it!"? Quote
Ken Dryden Posted October 24, 2018 Report Posted October 24, 2018 When you are older than dirt, you should know it. Scott Yanow is one day younger than me but didn't... Quote
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