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Saturday, November 20, 2021

The Betty Smith Group • My Foolish Heart

 



Betty Smith was a tenor saxophonist who came up through Britain’s big band circuit in the 1950s. Over the years she became quite an entertainer, often fronting large ensembles by mixing her saxophone solos with jazzy vocals and even raunchy humor. She became known as the girl with “sax appeal”. Her soulful sound on the tenor has been compared to Bud Freeman and Eddie Miller and no matter what style of music she is playing, her roots in swing always come through.

Although Betty came up through the swing band tradition, during the latter part of her career she often paid the bills with instrumental pop recordings. “My Foolish Heart” is one of those classic late 50s/early 60s tenor sax instrumental pop/rock-n-roll ballad records, the kind of music that used to play when radio stations would sign off, or that was used to introduce and close the late night movie on TV. The arrangements on here are spiced up with backing wordless vocals, swanky instrumentation and enough tasteful kitsch to make it appealing to the exotica collector. Like most pop music from this era, there is a doo-wop influence which shows in some of the backing vocals as well as the subtle repeating triplets on the piano. The recording quality and production on “My Foolish Heart” is excellent, if you like this sort of retro instrumental album, go for it.
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/betty-smith/my-foolish-heart

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Betty Smith fue una saxofonista tenor que ascendió en el circuito de las grandes bandas británicas en la década de 1950. Con el paso de los años se convirtió en toda una artista, a menudo al frente de grandes conjuntos, mezclando sus solos de saxofón con voces jazzísticas e incluso con un humor picante. Llegó a ser conocida como la chica del "atractivo del saxo". Su sonido conmovedor en el tenor ha sido comparado con el de Bud Freeman y Eddie Miller y, sea cual sea el estilo de música que toque, sus raíces en el swing siempre salen a relucir.

Aunque Betty surgió de la tradición de las bandas de swing, durante la última parte de su carrera solía pagar las facturas con grabaciones de música pop instrumental. "My Foolish Heart" es uno de esos clásicos discos de baladas pop/rock-n-roll instrumentales con saxo tenor de finales de los 50 y principios de los 60, el tipo de música que solía sonar cuando las emisoras de radio daban la señal de salida, o que se utilizaba para introducir y cerrar la película nocturna en la televisión. Los arreglos de este disco están aderezados con voces de acompañamiento sin palabras, instrumentación elegante y suficiente kitsch de buen gusto para que resulte atractivo para el coleccionista de música exótica. Al igual que la mayoría de la música pop de esta época, hay una influencia doo-wop que se manifiesta en algunos de los coros, así como en la sutil repetición de los tresillos en el piano. La calidad de la grabación y la producción de "My Foolish Heart" es excelente, si te gusta este tipo de álbumes instrumentales retro, hazte con él.
https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/betty-smith/my-foolish-heart


Tracklist:
1. My Foolish Heart
2. Down Among The Sheltering Palms
3. Sleepy Lagoon
4. The Faithful Hussar
5. Autumn Nights
6. Maria, My Own
7. Indian Summer
8. Song Of The Boulevards
9. Galway Bay
10. Blue Blues
11. Forgotten Dreams
12. Bewitched

Musicians
- Betty Smith / saxophone
- Malcom Lockyer / director of accompniment

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Label: London Records – PS 136
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz
https://www.discogs.com/release/6279489-The-Betty-Smith-Group-My-Foolish-Heart







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4 comments:

  1. Hi Jorge,
    I just told Bob about this Betty Smith album; it has been number one one my Want List for several years. I am a very long time collector of the hits, the pop, charts, and everything else.
    Can you tell me a little about how you got started collecting music; does your collection look like the blog?, what is your favorite music?
    Hit Parade

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    1. Hi Hitparade, sorry for the delay in responding, for personal reasons I would be grateful if you could write to me at the email address you can find in my Blogger profile.
      Regards.

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