Sun & Moon
Please
click here or on image above to listen to the music
Once
upon a time, long before FlyingTypers, I worked at KXEO Radio
in Mexico, Missouri, running specialized programming at KWWR- FM.
The best part of my job was creating original studio
productions and scheduling block programming of old-time radio shows
of the 1930s & 1940s, including The Lone Ranger, Gangbusters,
The Shadow, and others.
From programming and sales at a radio station, I moved
to New York City, where I worked as a club reviewer and music critic
for The Hollywood Reporter while also starting up a monthly
tabloid at JFK International Airport called Airport Times, The Cargo
Paper.
While working for The Hollywood Reporter,
I interviewed Elvis, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, and many others.
During the early years of publishing Air Cargo
News, my passion for music and programming continued, as Air
Cargo News created a 27-hour anthology of music and interviews
with survivors of The Hal Kemp Orchestra, an anthology featured on public
radio stations in New York and elsewhere.
The music was recorded and transcribed from two hundred
78 rpm phonograph records that Kemp created from 1928 until 1940, when
he died tragically and the band went out of business.
Today one way I enjoy relaxing is by creating playlists
that are shared with family and friends, although I listen to mostly
classical music on a daily basis.
This playlist was created after looking at a wonderful
picture of a full moon and a United Airlines airplane that ran in FlyingTypers
in July 2013.
You will note that some songs are repeated by different
artists.
Audrey Hepburn’s reading of “Moon River,”
for example, is entirely different from Henry Mancini’s full orchestra
treatment (Johnnie Mercer wrote the lyrics). Mancini’s full orchestra
version of “Moon River” topped the hit parade charts in
the Americas when “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” played
in the movies, although I have always felt the Hepburn reading is better,
more personal, and quite sweet.
My view of music is less about style and generation,
and has always been informed by something Duke Ellington said:
“If it sounds good, it is good;” that’s
what the great “Edward A” proclaimed.
Sun & Moon works nicely from track to
track, but for me the most enjoyable listening happens when you can
hit “random” and allow the playlist to change every cycle—if
you own a Spotify account, the link to open Sun
& Moon in your own music library, where you can randomize
and resort the list, is here:
Geoffrey
