Greetings!
I don't have a lot to blather on about today - I just thought I'd go back into the archives and find a Rodd Keith Film City release which doesn't appear to have ever made it onto the internet before. So that's what I did:
Song-Poet John Murynski's name does not show up in the AS/PMA website (and neither does this single), so these could possibly be his only two submissions to such a company. And both of the songs contain the names of women in their titles.
Both of these are sort of Middle-of-the-Road, mid-tempo numbers. Rodd is, of course, heard here is his guise as "Rod Rogers", with his one man Chamberlin band identified, as it so often was, as "The Swinging Strings". First up is "Dorothy". It's pretty standard issue for Rodd, but, as is so often the case, I have great admiration for what Rodd did with the various setting and voicings of the Chamberlin:
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Turning the record over, we encounter "Goodbye Mary", in which a sailor bids his love farewell until some unknown future date (betcha she doesn't know about the flip side, in which he's trying to find "Dorothy"). Rodd really sells this one - summoning as much smarmy sincerity as Paul Anka, only with a much better voice.
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1 comment:
As you say, the material is mediocre, but Rodd gives his all. Good keyboard work too. Thanks!
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