Catalogue: JASMCD 2563
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/07/2000
Bar Code: 604988 25632 1
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Wingy MANONEWingy Sings, Manone Plays Isle Of Capri & Other Great Hits
 
Physical disability is no bar to musicianship -
indeed, in some instances such as the blind keyboard players George Shearing and
Ray Charles, the enhanced hearing faculties have actually been an advantage.
Losing limbs is more problematic, but not always insurmountable. Take losing an
arm and playing trumpet: normally one arm gives support (and the hand can be
used for muting effects, etc.), the other facilitates the hand which actually
operates the valves. Playing with only one arm - inconvenient, but not
impossible. Enter Joseph Manone.This compilation is of the ‘happy’ songs Wingy
recorded at the height of his recording success with "Isle Of Capri". If not all
the lyrics were actually happy in content, then Manone made sure that the
overall effect was the desired one at the time of Depression - a lifting of
spirits. Everything received the unique Manone treatment, even (unbelievably?)
"On The Good Ship Lollipop", which owed nothing to that other lifter of spirits
of the time, Miss Shirley Temple. There is little doubt that Louis Prima, also
born in New Orleans but eleven years Wingy’s junior, took a lead from him, and
although unlike Manone, Prima forsook Dixieland-style jazz early in his career,
his vocal styling continued to recall that of the older man.
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