High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

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  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 16
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 16 Screen Scores.
    Screen scores and composers from the early days of cinema and sound recording to today. The music of Max Steiner, Erich Korngold, Bernard Hermann to John Williams, Ennio Marricone, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Rachel Portman.
    39 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 15
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 15 Rock crosses the Atlantic.
    Bill Haley and The Comets kick start white rock in 1953 but it quickly spread across the world. This episode criss crosses the Atlantic and give us the story of the Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton and features Chuck Berry, The Doors, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix while closer to home we hear the stories and sound of Phil Lynott, Gary Moore, Van Morrison and Rory Gallagher.
    34 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 14
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 14 Folk to Pop.
    From the 1950s onwards sound recording made it easier to capture and preserve folk music, musicians, songs and singers like the blind Hungarian fiddler Zerkula or Irish sean nos singer Labhras o Cadhla. Its a folk legacy which flows into modern music and composition/performance inspiring the folk music revival led by people like Pete Seeger, Ewan McColl and in Ireland Dominic Behan and Luke Kelly. This episode features Simon and Garfunkel, Peggy Seeger, Roberta Flack, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts and Paul Brady. We Hear Julie singing The Reaper a traditional song she learnt from June Tabor, and we get the story behind the folk song Scarborough Fair.
    32 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 13
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 13 The Leonard Bernstein Score.
    Leonard Bernsteins life and musical output defines the century of recorded song. Bernstein brought together jazz broadway musicals classical opera and even ballet as a composer pianist and conductor. This edition presented as a Julie Feeney special celebrates the man and his art and tells the story of West Side Story Bernsteins composition and how the song Somewhere has become one of the classics of our time.
    26 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 12
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 12 Taping the 50s
    Magnetic tape a legacy of wartime invention changed everything in sound and music recording. We hear from author Greg Milner about the story of sound and how tape recording gave us high fidelity portable recorders and the era of studio production. We hear the voices of Elvis Presley Johnny Cash and the story of Sun Recording Studios and Sam Phillips.
    35 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 11
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 11 Crooners and Divas.
    By 1948 the vinyl LP is born and with it the concept of an album. Vinyl vox celebrates not just the glories of vinyl but the voices it recorded both crooners like Nat King Cole Bobby Darin and Tony Bennett and divas like Nina Simone Judy Garland and Shirley Bassey. A tribute to torchsongs and anthems.
    30 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 10
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 10 Wartime Melodies
    From 1939 music is dominated by a European war which spread across the world. In Britain singers like Vera Lynn and the Andrew Singers come to the fore while band leaders like Glenn Miller in the US play a role in morale boosting. The war sees the use of radio music and cinema as propaganda tools and leads to a break through in magnetic tape recording which changes recording in the post war era. Enjoy performances by Vera Lynn the Andrew Singers Glenn Miller Joe Loss Orchestra and hear the story of the song As Time Goes By performed by Dooley Wilson in the wartime movie Casablanca.
    35 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 9
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 9 The Sound of Music
    Cinema starts talking and singing with Al Jolsons Jazz Singer in 1927 and High Fidelity traces the story of music song and singers on screen from musical extravaganzas from Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady to Mama Mia music films like Amadeus and screen composers like John Williams and Michael Nyman. Episode nine features performances from Julie Andrews, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Rex Harrison amongst others and tells the story of The Sound of Music the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical song and film
    32 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 8
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 8 The Cole Porter Songbook
    Jack L takes down the Cole Porter songbook featuring the life story and voice of Frank Sinatra as well as KD Lang Billie Holiday Ethel Merman Bono Elvis Costello Fred Astaire Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald This episode tells the story of Frank Sinatras Songs for Swinging Lovers album orchestrated and arranged by Nelson Riddle in 1956 and featuring several classic Cole Porter recordings
    26 min
  • High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 7
    High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 7 Sounds Classical
    How sound recording transformed classical performance and composition. Julie Feeney explores opera singers from Maria Callas to Luciano Pavarotti and conductors from Stokowski to Toscanini.
    26 min

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A 26 part radio series presented by Jack L and Julie Feeney - a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X-Factor.