Russ Columbo - You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love
BackTo my surprise, this superb Columbo performance is not available on this site yet, so I decided to upload it. Russ Columbo (né Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolpho Colombo), interpreting the outstanding vocal in this fantastic record, was born in 1908. Despite his early death, he became a famous American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love," and the legend surrounding his premature death. He started playing the violin while still very young, and debuted professionally at the age of 13. He left high school at 17 to travel with various bands around the country. He sang and played violin in numerous nightclubs. By 1928, at the age of 20, Columbo began to participate in motion pictures, including a Vitaphone short in which Columbo appeared with Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra. Eventually, he did obtain some feature work in front of the camera, but he slowed down his activities in cinema to pursue other interests. Columbo tried to run a nightclub for a while, but the venture was unsuccessful. In 1931, he traveled to New York with his manager, songwriter Con Conrad. Conrad secured a late-night radio slot with NBC. This led to numerous engagements, a recording contract with RCA Victor records, and tremendous popularity with legions of mostly female fans. The type of singing that was popularized by the likes of Columbo, Rudy Vallée, and Bing Crosby is called crooning. Columbo disliked the label, but it caught on with the general public. It gained popular credence, despite its initial use as a term of derision for the singers employing their low, soothing voices in romantic songs. On September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown. Columbo was visiting him at the studio one day. In lighting a cigarette, Brown lit the match by striking it against the wooden stock of an antique French dueling pistol. The flame set off a long-forgotten charge in the gun, and a lead pistol ball was fired. The pistol ball ricocheted off a nearby table and hit Columbo in the left eye, killing him almost instantly. Columbo's death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame. Nathaniel (on popular/jazz records credited Nat) Shilkret (1895-1982) was an American composer and conductor. For many years he was "director of light music" for Victor. He conducted the orchestra for the very first recording of George Gershwin's symphonic poem An American in Paris, in 1928. His best-known popular composition was The Lonesome Road, sung by Jules Bledsoe (dubbing Stepin Fetchit) in the final scene of the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat and recorded by more than 100 artists, including Armstrong, Crosby, Sinatra and Robeson. Besides all this, he also was a classical composer. He moved to Los Angeles in 1935 and there contributed music scores to a string of Hollywood films for MGM and RKO, particularly Mary of Scotland (1936), Swing Time (1936), The Plough and the Stars, and Shall We Dance? (1937) and several films of Laurel and Hardy. Shilkret also received an Oscar nomination for his work scoring the film version of Maxwell Anderson's stage drama Winterset (1936). In 1939, he conducted a group of soloists (including tenor Jan Peerce) and the Victor Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor's multi-disc tribute to Victor Herbert, which were recorded following a special NBC radio broadcast. He left the movie business after 1946 to join the CBS radio network as its music director. As for this delicate rendition, so typical for Columbo's refined style, was recorded for Victor on September 3rd, 1931. Piano solo by Nat Shilkret, also conducting the Nat Shilkret Orchestra.
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Uploaded: October 6th, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
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