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Shaw, Artie Filmography
- From Shtetl to Swing (2005)
- Sinatra: Dark Star (2005)
- Begin the Beguine (2003)
- Artie Shaw: Quest for Perfection (2003)
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985)
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985)
- Bix: 'Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet' (1981)
- Crash (1978)
- Jazz Ball (1956)
- Second Chorus (1940)
- Second Chorus (1940)
- Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (1939)
- Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
- Symphony of Swing (1939)
- Artie Shaw's Class in Swing (1939)
- From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
- The Yacht Party (1932)
Artie Shaw was the rival of 'Benny Goodman (I)' (qv) in the Swing era. With a different style of playing, his sound on clarinet was more liquid than Goodman's sound. After playing in different orchestras in the late 1920s and '30s, he formed his own orchestra in 1936, and he added a string quartet to the Big Band. In 1938, he had a famous hit with the recording of the 'Cole Porter' (qv) song "Begin the Beguine." After months of success and popularity, he dissolved his band in 1939. The year after, he appeared with a new band. In the 1950s, he went into a semi-retirement and wrote two books: "The trouble with Cinderella" and "I love you, I hate you, drop dead." His last recordings were in 1954 with a small group with 'Hank Jones (II)' (qv) on piano and others. After this, he retired from the music scene, except for a brief appearance for a week in the 1980s.
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- Blues in the Night
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- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Thanks for Ev'rything
- Special Delivery Stomp
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Keepin' Myself for You
- Cross Your Heart
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- When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin
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- The Grabtown Grapple
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- Summit Ridge Drive
- Back Bay Shuffle
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- Serenade to a Savage
- Frenesi
- Special Delivery Stomp
- Temptation
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- The Japanese Sandman
- A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
- I Used to Be Above Love
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- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Begin the Beguine
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- Serenade to a Savage
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- Temptation
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- Night and Day
- The Chant
- The Blues March, Part 1
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- Just You, Just Me
- Free for All
- Begin the Beguine
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Any Old Time
- Nightmare
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- Softly, as in the Morning Sunrise
- Jungle Drums
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Rose Room
- One Foot in the Groove
- Traffic Jam
- Serenade to a Savage
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- Frenesi
- Stardust
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- It's a Long Way to Tipperary
- Indian Love Call
- Begin the Beguine
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Frenesi
- Nightmare
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- Special Delivery Stomp
- My Blue Heaven
- Deep Purple
- I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
- Thou Swell
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- Stardust
- The Blues
- Begin the Beguine
- Nightmare
- Indian Love Call
- Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
- Jungle Drums
- Any Old Time
- Blues From Lennox Avenue Suite
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- They Say
- Traffic Jam
- Summit Ridge Drive
- The Blues
- Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy
- Sweet Lorraine
- Streamline
- Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
- Stardust
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Streamline
- Sweet Lorraine
- Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You
- No More Tears
- Moonlight and Shadows
- Was It Rain
- All Alone
- All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
- It Goes To Your Feet
- Because I Love You
- Night and Day
- I Surrender Dear
- Blue Skies
- Someday Sweetheart
- Afraid To Dream
- If You Should Ever Leave
- Sweet Adeline
- How Dry I Am
- Am I In Love
- Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum
- Please Pardon Us, We're In Love
- The Chant
- The Blues Part 1
- Begin the Beguine
- Any Old Time
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Nightmare
- Say it with a Kiss
- Traffic Jam
- Frenesi
- The Man I Love
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Carioca
- Star Dust
- The Man From Mars
- Evensong
- Suite #8
- Summertime
- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
- Concerto for clarinet, parts 1 and 2
- There'll be some changes made
- The Grabtown grapple
- Everthing is jumpin'
- The Japanese Sandman
- The Chant
- Just You, Just Me
- Sobbin' Blues
- Free Wheeling
- I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
- Sweet Lorraine
- Sugarfoot Stomp
- Let 'er Go
- The Blues, Parts 1 & 2
- Goodnight Angel
- Free for All
- Concerto for Clarinet (Part I and II)
- King for a Day
- Stardust
- Prelude In C Major
- Chantez Les Bas (Sing 'Em Low)
- What Is There to Say
- Who's Excited
- Confessin' (That I Love You)
- Solid Sam
- Take Your Shoes Off Baby (And Start Runnin' Through My Mind)
- Love Me a Little Little
- Blues in the Night
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Deuces Wild
- Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
- Rockin' Chair
- Just Kiddin' Around
- Carnival
- St. James Infirmary Blues
- Needlenose
- Two in One Blues
- Begin the Beguine
- I Cover the Waterfront
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- Stardust
- Indian Love Call
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- Temptation
- Any Old Time
- Frenesi
- Comes Love
- Moonglow
- St. Louis Blues
- Begin the Beguine
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Any Old Time
- Nightmare
- Yesterdays
- They Say
- My Heart Stood Still
- Carioca
- Out of Nowhere
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- Jungle Drums
- I Poured My Heart Out in a Song
- Rose Room
- Rosalie
- The Donkey Serenade
- Deep Purple
- Traffic Jam
- Oh, Lady, Be Good
- I Surrender Dear
- Frenesi
- April in Paris
- Special Delivery Stomp
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Stardust
- I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
- Oh, You Crazy Moon
- I'm Yours
- What's New
- It Had to Be You
- This Can't Be Love
- Everything's Jumpin'
- I Can't Give You Anything but Love
- I Cover the Waterfront
- Over the Rainbow
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Summer Souvenirs
- Ya Got Me
- Got the Mis'ry
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- The Yam
- I Haven't Changed a Thing
- If What You Say Is True
- Maria My Own
- Last Night
- Hold Your Hats
- Nightmare
- Imagination
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- My Funny Valentine
- Too Marvelous for Words
- I Can't Get Started
- The Sad Sack
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Mysterioso
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- I Ain't Coming
- Chant of the Jungle
- You're So Indiff'rent
- Hold Your Hats
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- Rockin' the State
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- Pastel Blue
- Frenesi
- Deep in a Dream
- Non-Stop Flight
- April in Paris
- Oh Lady Be Good
- Serenade to a Savage
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Temptation
- Special Delivery Stomp
- My Blue Heaven
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Concerto for Clarinet
- It Had to Be You
- Dancing in the Dark
- Stardust
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Frenesi
- Traffic Jam
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- Deep Purple
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- Begin the Beguine
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- Sobbin' Blues
- Special Delivery Stomp
- Star Dust
- Shoot the Likker to Me, John Boy
- Begin the Beguine
- Nightmare
- Copenhagen
- Frenesi
- Mysterioso
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- Take Your Shoes Off, Baby
- Concerto for Clarinet
- The Grabtown Grapple
- Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
- Profoundly Blue
- Dancing in the Dark
- Serenade to a Savage
- Day In - Day Out
- Rockin' Chair
- Temptation
- Blues in the Night
- All the Things You Are
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- My Blue Heaven
- Moonglow
- St. James Infirmary, Part 1
- St. James Infirmary, Part 2
- I Don't Want to Walk Without You
- Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
- Chantez les Bas
- Diga Diga Doo
- (Alla En) El Rancho Grande
- Nocturne
- To a Broadway Rose
- Lady Day
- Little Jazz
- A Foggy Day
- The Man I Love
- Lucky Number
- Pied Piper Theme
- Love of My Life
- Rough Ridin'
- Yesterdays
- Lyric
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- Lugubrious
- S'posin'
- Tenderly
- When the Quail Come Back to San Quentin
- Begin the Beguine
- Back Bay Shuffle
- Any Old Time
- Nightmare
- Yesterdays
- Rosalie
- The Donkey Serenade
- Deep Purple
- Traffic Jam
- Oh, Lady Be Good
- I Surrender Dear
- Frenesi
- April in Paris
- Special Delivery Stomp
- Summit Ridge Drive
- Stardust
- Dancing in the Dark
- Moonglow
- St James Infirmary, Parts 1 & 2
- Concerto for Clarinet, Parts 1 & 2
- The Japanese Sandman
- Thou Swell
- Sweet Lorraine
- My Blue Heaven
- All Alone
- Blue Skies
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary
- I'll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time
- Begin the Beguine
- Yesterdays
- Carioca
- Lady Be Good
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was
- Frenesi
- Temptation
- Moonglow
- Begin the Beguine
- Stardust
- I Cover the Waterfront
- Comes Love
- Deep Purple
- Moonglow
- Any Old Time
- Frenesi
- Lover, Come Back to Me
- To a Broadway Rose
- Indian Love Call
- Temptation
- Oh! Lady Be Good
- St. Louis Blues
- A Strange Loneliness
- Absent Minded Moon
- Any Old Time
- Beau Night in Hotchkiss Corner
- Blues in the Night
- Deep Purple
- Don't Fall Asleep
- Don't Take Your Love From Me
- Get Out of Town
- Gloomy Sunday
- Indian Love Call
- It's the Same Old Dream
- I've Got the Sun in the Morning
- Let's Call a Heart a Heart
- Love Me a Little Little
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Shoot the Likker to Me John Boy
- Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
- That's for Me
- There's Frost on the Moon
- They Say
- This Time the Dream's on Me
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- You Do Something to Me
- Nightmare
- Yesterdays
- Stardust
- I Concentrate
- Frenesi
- Moonglow
- September Song
- Could Be
- I Could Write a Book
- Jungle Drums
Born: 1910-05-23
Died: 2004-12-30
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Artie Shaw: Concerto for Clarinet
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 21 Mar 2007
- Updated: 31 May 2012
From the 1940 film Second Chorus
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STARDUST ARTIE SHAW
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- Duration: 3:40
- Published: 03 Dec 2007
- Updated: 31 May 2012
The King of The Clarinet, Mr. Artie Shaw Although this version doesn't have Billy Butterfield's trumpet solo, it does swing more than the original.
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Artie Shaw Begin The Beguine Final
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 20 Sep 2009
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
BEGUINE THE BEGUINE ARTIE SHAW HIGH QUALITY AUDIO
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Artie Shaw - Jeepers Creepers
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 20 Mar 2008
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Part 2/4 of Symphony of Swing. A short from 1939 featuring Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
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Artie Shaw - Frenesi
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 06 Oct 2007
- Updated: 27 May 2012
Artist: Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Title: "Frenesi" Album: Moonglow Label: RCA Victor Cat No: LPM-1244 Release Year: 1956 Country: Canada Format: 12" LP Album Ratings allowed as of June 10, 2011.
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Artie Shaw's Stardust
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- Duration: 3:10
- Published: 20 Sep 2009
- Updated: 31 May 2012
Artie Shaw's classic recording of Hoagy Carmichael's standard "Stardust." Many consider this the top big band recording of alltime. Billy Butterfield on trumpet. For more: www.examiner.com
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Artie Shaw - Nightmare
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- Duration: 2:47
- Published: 22 Jun 2007
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
From 1938.
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Artie Shaw, Moonglow..wmv
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- Duration: 3:13
- Published: 19 Jul 2010
- Updated: 31 May 2012
From the CD 20 Best of Artie Shaw. Madacy Entertainment Group. 2005.
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Begin The Beguine - Artie Shaw
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- Duration: 3:14
- Published: 07 Mar 2009
- Updated: 30 May 2012
Begin The Beguine - Artie Shaw
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Artie Shaw - Where Or When
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 27 Nov 2009
- Updated: 31 May 2012
At the height of his popularity in the late 1930's and early 1940's, Artie Shaw was making $60000 a week (by comparison the comedy act of George Burns & Gracie Allen was making about $5000/wk). Only Benny Goodman would rival Artie as the best jazz clarinetest in the land, and hit after hit and wife after wife would follow him for years. Married 8 times to the likes of Betty Kern (Jerome Kern's daughter), and actresses Ava Gardner and Evelyn Keyes, he was a self-admitted "difficult" man to deal with, and a perfectionist in every sense of the word. In fact, so much so, that his desire to be "perfect" musically led him to retire shortly after this recording of "Where or When" in the early 1950's. He would make a brief comeback 30 years later, but the Artie Shaw most would remember had left his best days far behind.
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Artie Shaw - "Dancing in the Dark" (original 78)
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- Duration: 3:35
- Published: 16 Dec 2009
- Updated: 30 May 2012
Artist: Artie Shaw and His Orchestra Title: "Dancing in the Dark" (Schwartz-Dietz) Label: RCA Victor Cat No: 27335 Release Year: 1941 Country: Canada Format: 10" Shellac Record Ratings allowed as of June 21, 2011.
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Artie Shaw - Frenesi
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- Duration: 3:04
- Published: 13 Oct 2010
- Updated: 31 May 2012
Master of the clarinet!
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Artie Shaw (Clarinet in jazz)
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- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 01 Feb 2007
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Concerto for Clarinet (1940 Second Chorus) bw
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Artie Shaw - Alone Together
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- Duration: 3:11
- Published: 20 Mar 2008
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Part 1/4 of Symphony of Swing. A 1939 short featuring Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
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GLOOMY SUNDAY ~ Artie Shaw & His Orchestra 1940.wmv
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 08 Jun 2010
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
GLOOMY SUNDAY ~ Artie Shaw & His Orchestra ~Pauline Byrne ~1940 ~ Bluebird Records. This is a "deep" song, as the lyrics will tell, but it was just like Artie Shaw to record something like this. Maybe it was because Artie was known to be "gloomy" at times himself and he could possibly relate to the sentiment & sorrow of this song. Artie Shaw's theme song was a song called "NIGHTMARE" and it too, had a "gloomy" sound to it, but whether it was a sad sounding tune or a up-beat number, Artie Shaw & his Orchestra were absolutely great, as were, many of his vocalists. (Links to other Big Band videos) (Here's the link to Frankie Carle's - OH WHAT IT SEEMED TO BE ) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Tommy Dorsey's - I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Tommy Tucker's - I DON'T WANT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE ) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Freddie Slack's - COW COW BOOGIE ) www.youtube.com
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What's my Line? Artie Shaw
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 20 Sep 2010
- Updated: 26 May 2012
What's my Line? Artie Shaw
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Artie Shaw - Nonstop Flight
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- Duration: 2:04
- Published: 06 Jan 2009
- Updated: 25 May 2012
Artie Shaw and his orchestra swing it with Nonstop Flight.
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Artie Shaw
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 11 Aug 2009
- Updated: 09 May 2012
"Everything's Jumping," a tune by Artie Shaw himself, as presented in SECOND CHORUS. Seen in the intro dialogue: Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire, and Burgess Meredith. For more information on how to purchase Fred Astaire movies from the companies issuing them on DVD, please drop me an e-mail.
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Rosalie - Artie Shaw - 78rpm
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- Duration: 2:56
- Published: 19 Nov 2007
- Updated: 29 May 2012
Rosalie (Cole Porter) Artie Shaw & orchestra played with my new General Electric VRII magnetic cartridge, my best by the moment to play 78 records. 1006 Dual record changer
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NIGHTMARE - Artie Shaw - 1938
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 25 Jan 2009
- Updated: 31 May 2012
This is a pretty scary song. Enjoy!
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Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest - Deep Purple
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- Duration: 1:41
- Published: 20 Mar 2008
- Updated: 01 Jun 2012
Part 3/4 of Symphony of Swing. A short from 1939 featuring Artie Shaw and his Orchestra.
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Artie Shaw,Helen Forrest - ANY OLD TIME
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- Duration: 3:20
- Published: 29 Aug 2009
- Updated: 31 May 2012
"ANY OLD TIME" Artie Shaw and his orchestra vocal:Helen Forrest Chuck Peterson, John Best, Bernie Privin,(tp) George Arus, Les Jenkins, Harry Rogers,(tb) Artie Shaw,(cl) Les Robinson, Hank Freeman,(as) Tony Pastor, George Auld,(ts) Bob kitsis,(p) Al Avola(g) Sid Weiss,(b) Buddy Rich,(ds) Helen Forrest,(vo) recorded on March 12, 1939. "ANY OLD TIME" Artie Shaw was first recorded on July 24, 1938 that featuring Billie Holiday. Helen Forrest's this version was recorded on March 12, 1939. But not released until 1945.
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Stardust - Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
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- Duration: 3:40
- Published: 23 Jan 2009
- Updated: 31 May 2012
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| Artie Shaw | |
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 Artie Shaw in Second Chorus (1940) |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Arthur Jacob Arshawsky |
| Born | (1910-05-23)May 23, 1910 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | December 30, 2004(2004-12-30) (aged 94) Thousand Oaks, California, United States |
| Genres | Swing, big band |
| Occupations | Bandleader, composer |
| Instruments | Clarinet |
| Years active | 1925–2004 |
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky (May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004), better known as Artie Shaw, was an American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings.
Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists",[1] Shaw led one of America's most popular big bands of the late 1930s and early '40s. Their signature song, a 1938 version of Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine", was a wildly successful single and one of the era's defining recordings. Musically restless, Shaw was also an early proponent of Third Stream, which blended classical and jazz, and recorded some small-group sessions that flirted with be-bop before retiring from music in 1954.
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Early life[link]
Born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky in New York City, Shaw grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, where, according to his autobiography[2] his natural introversion was deepened by local antisemitism. Shaw began learning the saxophone when he was 13 years old, and by the age of 16, he switched to the clarinet and left home to tour with a band. Returning to New York, he became a session musician through the early 1930s. From 1925 until 1936, Shaw performed with many bands and orchestras, including those of Johnny Caverello and Austin Wylie. In 1929 and 1930 he played with Irving Aaronson's Commanders, where he was exposed to symphonic music, which he would later incorporate in his arrangements.
Shaw first gained critical acclaim with his "Interlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935.[3] During the swing era, his big band was popular with hits like "Begin the Beguine" (1938), "Stardust" (with a trumpet solo by Billy Butterfield), "Back Bay Shuffle", "Moonglow", "Rosalie" and "Frenesi". He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation; "Interlude in B-flat", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.[4]
In addition to hiring Buddy Rich, he signed Billie Holiday as his band's vocalist in 1938, becoming the first white bandleader to hire a full-time black female singer to tour the segregated Southern US.[4] However, after recording "Any Old Time" she left the band due to hostility from audiences in the South, as well as from music company executives who wanted a more "mainstream" singer.[4] His band became enormously successful, and his playing was eventually recognized as equal to that of Benny Goodman: longtime Duke Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard cited Shaw as his favorite clarinet player.[5] In response to Goodman's nickname, the "King of Swing", Shaw's fans dubbed him the "King of the Clarinet." Shaw, however, felt the titles were reversed. "Benny Goodman played clarinet. I played music", he said.[6] In 1938 DownBeat Magazine's readers agreed with Shaw's evaluation and named Artie Shaw as the King of Swing.[7]
Shaw prized innovation and exploration in music more highly than popular success and formulaic dance music, despite a string of hits which sold more than 100 million records.[3] He fused jazz with classical music by adding strings to his arrangements, experimented with bebop, and formed "chamber jazz" groups that utilized such novel sounds as harpsichords or Afro-Cuban music.
The long series of musical groups Shaw formed included such talents as vocalists Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest and, Mel Tormé; drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough, guitarists Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney, and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff, among countless others. He composed the morose "Nightmare", with its Hassidic nuances, for his personal theme, rather than more approachable songs. In a televised interview of the 1970s, Shaw derided the often "asinine" songs that bands were compelled to play night after night. In 1994, he told Frank Prial (The New York Times), "I thought that because I was Artie Shaw I could do what I wanted, but all they wanted was 'Begin the Beguine.' " [8]
Pacific overtures[link]
During World War II, Shaw enlisted in the United States Navy and later formed a band, which served in the Pacific theater (just as Glenn Miller's wartime band served in Europe). After 18 months playing for Navy personnel (sometimes as many as four concerts a day in battle zones, including Guadalcanal), Shaw returned to the U.S. in a state of physical exhaustion, receiving a medical discharge.[9] In the late 1940s, Shaw performed classical music at Carnegie Hall and with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein.
Like Benny Goodman and other leaders of big bands, Shaw fashioned a small group from within the band. He named it the Gramercy Five after his home telephone exchange.[3] Band pianist Johnny Guarneri played a harpsichord on the quintet recordings and Al Hendrickson played an electric guitar, which was unusual in jazz recordings of the time. Trumpeter Roy Eldridge later became part of the group, succeeding Billy Butterfield. The Gramercy Five's biggest hit was "Summit Ridge Drive". A CD of The Complete Gramercy Five sessions was released in 1990.
Throughout his career, Shaw would take sabbaticals from the music business. This included studying advanced mathematics, as cited in Karl Sabbagh's The Riemann Hypothesis. His first interregnum, at the height of his success, was met with disbelief by booking agents. They predicted that Shaw would not only be abandoning a million-dollar enterprise but that nightclub and theater owners would sue him for breach of contract. Shaw's offhand response was, "Tell 'em I'm insane. A nice, young American boy walking away from a million dollars, wouldn't you call that insane?"[citation needed]
In 1954, Shaw stopped playing the clarinet, citing his own perfectionism, which, he later said, would have killed him. He explained to a reporter, "In the world we live in, compulsive perfectionists finish last. You have to be Lawrence Welk, or, on another level, Irving Berlin, and write the same kind of music over and over again. I'm not able to do that."[10] He spent the rest of the 1950s living in Europe.
In 1981, he organized a new Artie Shaw Band with clarinetist Dick Johnson as bandleader and soloist. Shaw himself guest conducted from time to time, ending his self-imposed retirement.
After Canadian filmmaker Brigitte Berman interviewed Shaw, Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham and others for her documentary film Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet (1981) about Bix Beiderbecke, she went on to create an Academy Award-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985), featuring her interviews with Shaw, Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Helen Forrest and others. Later in 2003, along with members of his original bands and other music professionals, Shaw was extensively interviewed by Russell Davies for the BBC Television documentary, Artie Shaw — Quest for Perfection, which became his last major interview.
In 1991, Artie Shaw's band library and manuscript collection was donated to the University of Arizona. In 2004, he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Personal life[link]
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A self-proclaimed "very difficult man,"[11] Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns (1932–33; annulled); Margaret Allen (1934–37; divorced); actress Lana Turner (1940; annulled); Betty Kern (1942–43; divorced), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern; actress Ava Gardner (1945–46; divorced); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor (1946–48; annulled); actress Doris Dowling (1952–56; divorced); and actress Evelyn Keyes (1957–85; divorced).[12] He had one son, Steven Kern, with Betty Kern, and another son, Jonathan Shaw (a well-known tattoo artist who founded Fun City Tattoo), with Doris Dowling.[12] Both Lana Turner and Ava Gardner later described Shaw as being extremely emotionally abusive. His controlling nature and incessant verbal abuse in fact drove Turner to have a nervous breakdown, soon after which she divorced him.[13]
In 1946, Shaw was present at a meeting of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Olivia de Havilland and Ronald Reagan, part of a core group of actors and artists who were trying to sway the organization away from communism, presented an anti-communist declaration which, if signed, was to run in newspapers. There was bedlam as many rose to champion the communist cause, and Artie Shaw began praising the democratic standards of the Soviet constitution.[14] In 1953, Shaw was brought up before the House Un-American Activities Committee for his leftist activities. The committee was investigating a peace activist organization, the World Peace Congress, which it considered a communist front.
He was a precision marksman, ranking fourth in the United States in 1962,[3] as well as an expert fly fisherman. In his later years, Shaw lived and wrote in the Newbury Park section of Thousand Oaks, California. Shaw had long suffered from adult onset diabetes and eventually died of complications of the disease at age 94.[15] In 2005, Shaw's eighth wife, Evelyn Keyes, sued Shaw's estate, claiming that she was entitled to one-half of Shaw's estate pursuant to a contract to make a will between them. In July 2006, a Ventura, California jury unanimously held that Keyes was entitled to almost one-half of Shaw's estate, or $1,420,000.[16]
Radio[link]
Shaw did many big band remotes, and he was often heard from the Blue Room of New York's Hotel Lincoln. It was the location of his only regular radio series as headliner.[3] Sponsored by Old Gold cigarettes, Shaw broadcast on CBS from November 20, 1938 until November 14, 1939.
At the height of his popularity, Shaw reportedly earned $60,000 per week.[3] For a comparison, George Burns and Gracie Allen were each making US $5,000 per week during the year the Artie Shaw Orchestra provided the music for their radio show.[17] He also acted on the show as a love interest for Gracie Allen.[18]
Shaw's recording of "Nightmare" was used as the theme soundtrack for BBC Radio's adaptation of the Philip Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler.
Films, TV and fiction[link]
Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures. He portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film, Second Chorus (1940), which featured Shaw and his orchestra playing "Concerto for Clarinet." The film brought him two Oscar nominations, one for Best Score and one for Best Song ("Love of My Life").[19] He collaborated on the love song "If It's You" sung by Tony Martin in the Marx Brothers' film, The Big Store (1941). In 1950 he was a mystery guest on What's My Line?, and during the 1970s he made appearances on The Mike Douglas Show and The Tonight Show.
Many of his recordings have been used in motion pictures. His recording of "Stardust" was used in its entirety in the closing credits of the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Martin Scorsese also used the Shaw theme song, "Nightmare", in his Academy Award-winning Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator.
He credited his time in the Navy as a period of renewed introspection.[2] He entered psychoanalysis and began to pursue a writing career. His autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity, was published in 1952 (with later reprint editions in 1992 and 2001). Revealing downbeat elements of the music business, Shaw explained that "the trouble with Cinderella" is "nobody ever lives happily ever after."[2] He turned to semi-autobiographical fiction with the three short novels in I Love You, I Hate You, Drop Dead! (1965, reprinted in 1997), which prompted Terry Southern's comment: "Here is a deeply probing examination of the American marital scene. I flipped over it!"[20] Shaw's short stories, including "Snow White in Harlem," were collected in The Best of Intentions and Other Stories (1989). He worked for years on his 1000-page autobiographical novel, The Education of Albie Snow, but the three-volume work remains unpublished. Currently, through Curtis International Associates, the Artie Shaw Orchestra is still active.
References[link]
- ↑ "Artie Shaw". AllMusic. http://allmusic.com/artist/artie-shaw-p7522/discography/compilations. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Shaw, Artie (1952). The Trouble with Cinderella. Farrar, Straus and Young. ISBN 1-56474-020-X
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 White, John. Artie Shaw. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN 0-8264-6915-9
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Greene, Meg. Billie Holiday: A Biography. Greenwood Pres, 2006. ISBN 0-313-33629-6
- ↑ Zwerin, Mike. "Remembering Artie Shaw". 23 January 2005. http://www.culturekiosque.com/jazz/portrait/artie_shaw.html. Accessed 2009-06-30.
- ↑ Jenkins, Todd. "The Last Post: Artie Shaw". 2004. http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost.php3?edit=1104549577. Accessed 2009-06-30.
- ↑ 1938 DownBeat Readers Poll. http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=stories&subsect=story_detail&sid=744.
- ↑ Prial, Frank J. "At Home with: Artie Shaw; Literary Life, After Ending the Beguine", The New York Times, August 18, 1994.
- ↑ Susman, Gary. "Goodbye". Entertainment Weekly, January 3, 2005.
- ↑ Freedland, Michael. "'Jazz is like jumping off a cliff'". Telegraph, 15 March 2001.
- ↑ Wadler, Joyce. "Artie Shaw, Without Music". New York Times, 5 January 2005.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Artie Shaw". Telegraph, 1 January 2005.
- ↑ Turner, Lana (1982). Lana; The Lady, The Legend, The Truth. Dutton Adult; 1st edition. pp. 40–49. ISBN ISBN 978-0525241065.
- ↑ Meroney, John (September 7, 2006). "Olivia de Havilland Recalls Her Role -- in the Cold War". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB115757993223555601-lMyQjAxMDE2NTA3NzUwNzc5Wj.html.
- ↑ "Jazz giant Artie Shaw dies at age 94". Associated Press, 31 December 2004.
- ↑ "Artie Shaw's ex-wife gets half of estate". USA Today, 25 July 2006.
- ↑ "Business & Finance: Nat & Googie". TIME Magazine, 30 January 1933
- ↑ "Dismuke's Hit of the Week". 20 January 2005. http://www.dismuke.org/how/prev1-05.html
- ↑ Wilson, Jeff. "Artie Shaw, 94: Top bandleader of swing era". Toronto Star, 30 December 2004.
- ↑ "Books". The Artie Shaw Foundation. http://web.archive.org/web/20080615221645/http://www.artieshaw.com/books-ily.html via the Wayback Machine. Accessed 2011-2-7.
External links[link]
- Artie Shaw at the Internet Movie Database
- Biography at swingmusic.net
- Swing Bandleader, Clarinetist Artie Shaw Dies, The Washington Post, December 31, 2004
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| Name | Shaw, Artie |
| Alternative names | |
| Short description | American musician |
| Date of birth | May 23, 1910 |
| Place of birth | New York City |
| Date of death | December 30, 2004 |
| Place of death | Thousand Oaks, California |
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GLOOMY SUNDAY ~ Artie Shaw & His Orchestra 1940.wmv
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GLOOMY SUNDAY ~ Artie Shaw & His Orchestra 1940.wmv
GLOOMY SUNDAY ~ Artie Shaw & His Orchestra ~Pauline Byrne ~1940 ~ Bluebird Records. This is a "deep" song, as the lyrics will tell, but it was just like Artie Shaw to record something like this. Maybe it was because Artie was known to be "gloomy" at times himself and he could possibly relate to the sentiment & sorrow of this song. Artie Shaw's theme song was a song called "NIGHTMARE" and it too, had a "gloomy" sound to it, but whether it was a sad sounding tune or a up-beat number, Artie Shaw & his Orchestra were absolutely great, as were, many of his vocalists. (Links to other Big Band videos) (Here's the link to Frankie Carle's - OH WHAT IT SEEMED TO BE ) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Tommy Dorsey's - I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Tommy Tucker's - I DON'T WANT TO SET THE WORLD ON FIRE ) www.youtube.com (Here's the link to Freddie Slack's - COW COW BOOGIE ) www.youtube.com
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Artie Shaw
"Everything's Jumping," a tune by Artie Shaw himself, as presented in SECOND CHORUS. Seen in the intro dialogue: Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire, and Burgess Meredith. For more information on how to purchase Fred Astaire movies from the companies issuing them on DVD, please drop me an e-mail.
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