Jimmy Kennedy/Hugh Williams (arr. Bert Read): Red Sails in the Sunset
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2017 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a skilful 1936 arrangement of this famous song by Bert Read, a pianist and arranger for the Bert Ambrose orchestra. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Red Sails in the Sunset' is a 1935 song with music by Hugh Williams (a pseudonym for Wilhelm Grosz) and words by Jimmy Kennedy - inspired by the sails of a yacht Kennedy often saw off the coast of Northern Ireland. You can read much more about the song, and the many famous singers who have covered it here: http://bit.ly/2v44iLO . I have not found much biographical information about Read, except that he started arranging for Ambrose in 1928, and that he apparently only made one solo recording, which you can hear here: One is always in awe of the light-fingered right hand playing of 1930s dance band pianists such as Read. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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