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MP3 Randy Kaplan - Songs for Old Lovers
12 MP3 Songs in this album (40:08) !
Related styles: Jazz: Jazz Vocals, Pop: Brill Building Pop, Featuring Piano
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"The title of this album, Songs for Old Lovers, correlates with Frank Sinatra’s first album for Capitol Records, 1954’s Songs For Young Lovers. The cover artwork emulates the iconic cover of Sinatra’s 1955 collaboration with arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle, In the Wee Small Hours (Randy looking even more dejected than Frank, thereby adding a touch of parody to the moodiness of the image). And Randy’s etching on the back panel is based on the back cover of 1958’s Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. Even these liner notes, if I’ve done my job correctly, will conjure the album essays of Pet Welding and even Stan Cornyn. Yes, Songs for Old Lovers is a true concept album which pays tribute to some of the earliest concept albums of American Pop Music and the great American songwriting tradition.
Randy’s original compositions here are responses to American popular songs from the 1930s and 40s and, in one or two cases, the 20s, songs recorded by the likes of Sinatra himself, Peggy Lee, Marilyn Monroe, Chet Baker, Judy Garland, and Nat King Cole. Some of the songs are answers to questions posed by the original, some are variations on themes presented therein, others are retorts, replies, even ripostes. There are also nods to the songwriting styles of the day throughout, both harmonically and lyrically. Mike West, who has been producing Randy’s records for the past five years or so, evinces this homage through his elegant arrangements. Mike usually works with Randy in a bluegrass/country/folk/blues idiom. But, as evidenced here, these guys can do anything! A familiarity with the material Randy references on this record could enhance the listener’s experience but it is not a prerequisite; Songs for Old Lovers stands on its own as a collection of eloquent, subtle, forlorn, poetic, and sometimes wry ballads and saloon songs."
-from the liner notes by Montague Z. Young.
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