Friturday?

[rejectomorph]

Yesterday evening I lost track of the day and thought it was Friday. Today I continued to think it was Saturday until seeing Friday on the newspaper disabused me of my delusion. I suppose it doesn't matter, as one day is pretty much like another for me. Still, it's a bit distressing to have my memory flake out on me. And I was once so good at keeping track of where and when I was.

Whatever day I thought it was, it was at least a bit cooler, and the evening has become very pleasant. All the clouds are gone and the half moon is sharing the sky with a selection of summer stars. The feral kitties have had some supper, and I'm going to get the shower I missed last night when I took an unintentional nap, and then slice open the mango I got for a mere dollar at Safeway.

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I recall Mantovani as a 1950s era purveyor of saccharine music performed by an orchestra with an abundance of violins. A YouTube discovery has revealed that he was fond of violins even in the 1930s, but the sound they made was quite unexpected. Mantovani and his swinging violins, in a 1937 recording of a song for which no name is given.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

wow, mantovani could swing! the accordion mixed in cracks me up. *g*

(he gets played a lot on the geezer station that i listen to as aural prozac. too bad they don't have this tune!)

[rejectomorph]

Ronald Binge, the accordion player, was the Mantovani Orchestra's chief arranger for many years. He was the one who created what became Mantovani's signature sound, the "cascading violins" which debuted on his 1952 recording of "Charmaine" (track two on this YouTube video.)

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

oh, i love "Charmaine"! it turns up on that radio station frequently. music like that makes me feel sort of safe and calm, as a security blanket would!

now i'll go read about Binge. i went to college with a brother and sister whose last name was Binge. it was norwegian, iirc.