ANDERSON LEROY Blue Tango

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Leroy Anderson was an American composer and conductor of light orchestral music, who wrote many pieces for the Boston Pops Orchestra before starting to record under his own name.

Highly educated and multi-lingual as well as a classically-trained pianist, for many years he combined his composing with his work in military intelligence at the Pentagon and serving in the Korean War.

He specialised in short pieces with unusual and specific reference points, with his most successful compositions including “The Syncopated Clock”, and “Sleigh Ride” as well as his biggest hits, the US No. 1s “Blue Tango”, The Typewriter” and “A Christmas Festival”.

This great-value 49-track 2-CD collection comprises A and B sides of Decca singles by Leroy Anderson’s Pops Concert Orchestra from this era, and titles from his albums “A Leroy Anderson Pops Concert” and “The New Music Of Leroy Anderson” not otherwise released on singles.

It features the US No. 1 hits “Blue Tango”, “A Christmas Festival” and “The Typewriter”, plus “Syncopated Clock” and the UK hit “Forgotten Dreams”. It includes the titles from his themed work “Irish Suite”, plus several tunes from the musical “Goldilocks” for which he wrote the music.

Film composer John Williams called him “one of the great American masters of light orchestral music”, and this collection demonstrates his unique talents in this genre.

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Anderson, Leroy
Blue Tango

- 1 -
1. The Syncopated Clock
2. The Waltzing Cat
3. Blue Tango
4. Belle of the Ball
5. Horse and Buggy
6. The Penny Whistle Song
7. Serenata
8. Plink, Plank, Plunk!
9. Fiddle Faddle
10. A Trumpeter's Lullaby
11. Sleigh Ride
12. Saraband
13. A Christmas Festival (Part One)
14. A Christmas Festival Concluded)
15. The Phantom Regiment
16. China Doll
17. The Typewriter
18. The Girl In Satin
19. Promenade
20. 1. Jazz Pizzicato
21. 2. Jazz Legato
22. Bugler's Holiday
23. Summer Skies
24. Song of the Bells
25. Sandpaper Ballet

- 2 -
1. Forgotten Dreams
2. The Bluebells of Scotland
3. Lady In Waiting
4. Pyramid Dance (Heart of Stone)
5. Irish Washerwoman
6. The Minstrel Boy
7. The Last Rose of Summer
8. The Rakes of Mallow
9. The Wearing of the Green
10. The Girl I Left Behind Me
11. Turn Ye To Me
12. First Day of Spring
13. Clarinet Candy
14. The Golden Years
15. Lazy Moon
16. I Never Know When
17. Arietta
18. The Pussy Foot
19. Home Stretch
20. Balladette
21. Shall I Take My Heart
22. The Captains and the Kings
23. Town House Maxixe
24. Pirate Dance