http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/ Alec Wilder Group Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:12:24 GMT Robert Levy http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/340 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/340 I wonder if we can get a copy of this and have it posted on this site. There was great confusion about some of the Octets, how many AW actually wrote, and the Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:55:18 GMT James Harrod http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/339 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/339 The January 2010 issue of Names & Numbers, the Dutch discography journal, features a "Discography of the Alec Wilder Octet" by Björn Englund. I had been Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:35:32 GMT ronprather2004 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/338 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/338 'ALICE' PERFORMANCE BLENDS WORDS, MUSIC By Margaret Harper (mharper@...) Published Wednesday, December 2, 2009 When John Kuehn was a college Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:42:27 GMT Glenn & Wini Bowen http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/337 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/337 IUP Department of Music & Indiana Free Library Present ALICE?S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND By Lewis Carroll Musical Score by Alec Wilder Read and Sung by Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:45 GMT songscout@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/336 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/336 In a message dated 11/18/2009 11:51:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, john@... writes: Quite right about Dick Haymes recording "The Sounds Around Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:11:29 GMT songscout@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/335 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/335 The Mercer-MacGregor "Moon Dreams" has been recorded as a vocal by Meredith d'Ambrosio, Martha Tilton and Johnny Desmond. I have the sheet music to this 1941 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:08:58 GMT songscout@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/334 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/334 The Mercer-Wilder song "Sounds Around the House" is certainly unjustly neglected, overlooked, seldom embraced and all those unfortunate terms. Although I Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:03:16 GMT Phil Poulos http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/333 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/333 John Biderman writes: Quite right about Dick Haymes recording "The Sounds Around the House." I don't know where the original may be found, but the track was Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:59:25 GMT Reschore@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/332 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/332 It's a nice, well crafted lyric, but not particularly memorable when compared to Mercer's best and most famous lyrics. It's been recorded by Meredith Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:51:56 GMT Dflahm@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/331 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/331 If anyone has Miles Davis' BIRTH OF THE COOL recording, you'll note that "Moon Dreams" is credited to Chummy MacGregor and Johnny Mercer. Has anyone ever Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:51:47 GMT Phil Poulos http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/330 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/330 You may already know this, but "The Sounds Around the House" was indeed recorded by Dick Haymes, with Loonis McGlohon on piano. It should still be available Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:51:39 GMT john@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/329 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/329 Quite right about Dick Haymes recording "The Sounds Around the House." I don't know where the original may be found, but the track was included on the Wilder Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:55:32 GMT leslieorofino@... http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/328 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/328 Thank you Ron. Great article. Happy Birthday to a fabulous man, Johnny Mercer! Leslie Orofino www.Leslieorofino.com Tomorrow is the 100th birthday of Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:54:06 GMT Robert Levy http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/327 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/327 And don't forget the two songs Wilder wrote with Mercer -- *The Sounds Around the House* and *If Someday Comes Ever Again*. The latter was recorded by Nat Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:33:28 GMT ronprather2004 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/326 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/awilder/message/326 Tomorrow is the 100th birthday of songwriter-lyricist Johnny Mercer. Among the tributes to be found in the media, an article by Michael Anthony: