| | |  | Special Interests | Home » » » » Ted Lewis - A Million Memories | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Audio CD Release Date:
| April 25, 2000 | | Studio:
| RKO/Unique | | Number Of Discs:
| 1 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
| | | Track Listing: | | | 1. | I've Got a Million Wondeful Memories | | 2. | When You're Smiling | | 3. | Be Yourself | | 4. | Is It True What They Say About Dixie? | | 5. | Somebody Stole My Gal | | 6. | Music Is Magic | | 7. | My Little Girl | | 8. | Walking Around in a Dream | | 9. | If I Were a Millionaire | | 10. | There'll Be Some Changes Made | | 11. | Baby Face | |
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Ted Lewis Grabs an AudienceNov 04, 2000
By E F Isaacs
From the list of songs, this appears to a duplicate of the new Lewis cassette ( and CD) from the Good Music Co. of Holmes, Pa. Their web site may be yestermusic.com . The album was recorded in Lewis' 67th year (1957); he was still an active performer. The sound quality (on my tape) is superior, like new; the album was expensively produced, with a full orchestra and very professional arrangements. Lewis gives a fine performance in his remarkable style, apparently little changed from the first quarter of the 20th Century. His singing is not as strong as it may once have been, yet his specialty was an enthusiastic, upbeat, carnival barker/medicine show TALKING of his songs -- very much an early 20th century phenomenon, and never done better than by Lewis -- perhaps never equalled. I believe Sophie Tucker is Lewis' feminine counterpart in this technique. Yet Lewis' extremely positive, upbeat themes are somewhat unique to him, or at least the infectious conviction with which he sells them is. Lewis has much to teach any who would stand before an audience and hold them with a song. That is an understatement, I think. He has the "stage presence" -- the attitude toward an audience that wins their full attention -- of Jolson, or Cantor, or early Bob Dylan. He learned it in a lifetime of performance. We may dream of learning it by studying his work. I used to have a better Lewis album, of similar material, recorded (I guessed) maybe ten years earlier, when both his voice and band were punchier. Yet this album is a worthy substitute, I feel...I do not know what else is available.
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