You can't make this shit up! Say you are in charge of administering the music catalog of American Songbook Master "Hoagy Carmichael":http://hoagy.com/ . Aw heck, say you are his son,and you are working at spreading the message of Hoagy's huge songbook. It's 1970, you are working your day job at WGBH (PBS station in Boston)after ending your career as a stockbroker, and you say to yourself, "Self, How do I let the new generation know about the genius of my dad." You think and think about bringing the music to the kids..you gotta speak their language, their language is Rock and Roll.So the Son of Hoagy got together with a musician who worked at the station and asked if he would put some lyrics to Hoagy tunes for a kids music workshop.Monty Stark said yes and this strange and wonderful record was born (Hoagy approved and even co-wrote tunes with Stark).Kinda jazz, kinda rock, kinda funk, vibes, drums,guitar, distortion,wah-wah, just your average 70's kid's Album! Hoagy Carmichael said this about the record:"This is children's music!?..I say,Stark Mad." On Monty's voice he said,"somewhere between the filings on the edge of a pie pan, and the singing of a guru during one of his most exalted moments." Hoagy loved it.The record was re-issued, with a ton of cool notes, by Egon at Stones Throw. It is worth a look.
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