Maynard Ferguson – Gonna fly now
An evening pause: Performed live on television in 1977. Better known as the theme from the 1976 movie Rocky, which believe or not was made more than a half century ago.
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What he did to the Star Trek/Star Wars themes….
ugh….I had to wash my ears out by listening to more wholesome, innocent sounds–you know…like the Bennings shriek from THE THING or the screaming bear from ANNIHILATION.
Furgeson’s popularity coincided with my high school years playing trumpet. While I listened to the greats like Gillespie, Baker, and Armstrong, Ferguson was the one I wanted to emulate. I bought the albums and the sheet music, and spent time developing my high register. Still just OK, though.
Trumpets are fine….as part of a complete breakfast–I mean ensemble.
By itself?
A gateway drug that leads to soul-rotting Muzak -ificatoon.
I think the Mossad extracts information by lashing insurgents to chairs and having them listen to Pat Boone’s “In a Metal Mood”
I heard him when he played at my high school at about the time the video was made. I thought I got a great seat, right up in the front row. However, where he chose to stand put him right behind a large speaker and all I saw was the end of his trumpet. He sounded great, though.
I first heard of Maynard Ferguson while I was a university undergraduate more than 50 years ago. My next-door neighbour in the residence I was living in played a recording of Ferguson’s arrangement of the song MacArthur Park.
Ferguson gained national attention in Canada when he played during the closing ceremonies for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. His rendition of Gonna Fly Now was given a lot of air play on Canadian radio stations, but there was an earlier cover version that I heard by a group called Current (I can’t find much information about it).
There’s an interesting twist to Ferguson’s version.
While that recording was on radio station playlists here in Canada, I could hear the original on a number of Seattle stations that I could receive in northern British Columbia.
I think that was because of federal government policy that restricted the amount of foreign content that could be broadcast on Canadian stations. One could buy the recordings in stores here in the Great White North, but one wasn’t allowed to hear them on the radio.
Fortunately, radio signals don’t recognize political boundaries.
I love how you included the word “ALLOWED” by your government in your comment.
Faint aint free.
“Can’t stop the signal, Mal”
If you want beauty in music….
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