Dash
Here's a track Barry composed for a dance show created by famed hoofer Wayne Sleep. The words are by famed lyricist Don Black. I think you'll agree it belongs in the 'C - dash-dash-dash-dash -E' section. By the way, nice vocals Baz!
| Dash Barry Booth / Don Black |
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Yesteryear
An excerpt from Friday Night is Music Night, the long running Radio 2 series featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra with which Baz occasionally performs as guest pianist. Here, the presenter is Robin Boyle, now sadly deceased.
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Old Man Ravver
An example of the dangers of singing in a language other than your own. A frenchman has a crack at Old Man River. He must be in Seine.
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Talks for 6th Forms
Believe it or not, these incomplete fragments were taken from a genuine broadcast. For all you budding composers out there, here's an excellent lecture on how to write a best selling foxtrot. One has to be 'friendly' with a publisher, apparently...
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Gorgonzola
No cheese page could be complete without this anthem to the green, white and blue, recorded by The Jack Hilton Orchestra and vocalist Leslie Sarony on 27/10/1930.
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Contagious Music
In the early eighties, Baz and David Palmer, (with their "background of experience in every area of music writing from the glories of the English Madrigal School to the synthetic textures of contemporary sound") decided to create a music production company to provide music for the advertising industry. They got as far as making this demo (which they sent to absoluely no-one) before they got side-tracked by other things. Bill 'the voice' Mitchell provides the voiceover. (cf "infectious rash" in Talks for Sixth Forms)
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Lie to Me
Baz was commissioned by a Saudi princess to compose the music for this fine and cheesy item, a setting of absurd lyrics from her own pen.
It proved to be a most lucrative venture for Baz. However, the dream harboured by the princess, of becoming a recording artiste, remains unrealised.
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Postcards from The Edge
Baz collects unusually boring postcards, often depicting places he has never visited. The following series of views of Primrose Valley is a typical selection. Click on a thumb to see the full postcard.
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