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Rufus and Nick Leftbank 2. Wayne Hill, as performed by “Lance Gambit Trio” (arr. Hinchcliffe in the Browning/Yells edition). A musical comfort blanket for all of a certain age. A regular feature of TV Presenter (and artist) Tony Hart's TV shows was 'The Gallery', which displayed artworks sent in by young viewers. One of the pieces of easy-listening vibraphone music accompanying this feature, "Leftbank 2”, has passed into British TV theme lore. Hart also created the original design for the Blue Peter badge. Crazy Rhythm. Music: Joseph Meyer & Roger Wolfe Kahn. Lyrics: Irving Caesar. "Crazy Rhythm" is a swing show tune written in 1928 for the Broadway musical “Here's Howe”. It has since become a jazz standard, inspiring at least 15 jazz albums named Crazy Rhythm. The lyrics of "Crazy Rhythm", written in the year before the Great Crash, both partake of the frenetic pace of the Roaring Twenties and foreshadow the doom to come: I feel like the Emperor Nero when Rome was a very hot town. // Father Knickerbocker, forgive me, I play while your city burns down. |
