What are you listening to? February 2024

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Radu Lupu & Murray Perahia - Mozart: Sonata For Two Pianos / Schubert: Fantasia For Piano, 4 Hands (1985)

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The only thing better than an outstanding pianist is a brace of them. This "Masterworks Expanded Edition" adds Mozart's rarely performed Fantasia In F Minor For Mechanical Organ, K. 608 "An Organ Piece For A Clock" as arranged for two pianos by Busoni. It even includes some sections that Busoni had omitted. as restored by the artists.

:5.0: on the Sam-O-Meter. Look Ma, 4 hands!
 
Bob Hope - On The Road To Vietnam (1965)

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Vinyl Spin of the Day.

This album is a mini-documentary of Hope's 1964 tour of Southeast Asia, with clips from a series of shows between December 18 and 28 from military bases in six different countries. Newsman Alex Dreier supplies a running narration. Joining Bob on stage were Janis Paige, Anita Bryant, Jill St. John and Jerry Colonna (the cast sounds like an old SAT question: "which of these four items doesn't belong?")

Doubtless the routines were edited for this record, but the humor is still pretty racy for the time. Bob was very well received by the soldiers, sailors and airmen, with whom he achieved an obvious rapport.

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1954. Back when record execs could get away with calling grown men "boys". :vic:
Actually, this album title was a tribute to the original billing chosen by the brothers when they began performing professionally. At the time they were between ten and fifteen years old. The “guitar” referred to the fact that the boys imitated all of the other instruments.

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