Meyer Davis -- Meyer Davis Plays Cole Porter (1973 LP)

Selections

"Just One of Those Things"
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
"It's All Right With Me"
"Why Can't You Behave?"
"From This Moment On"
"All of You"
"You Do Something to Me"
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
"Wunderbar"
"After You"
"So in Love"
"In the Still of the Night"


from NYTimes obit:

Meyer Davis, for half a century the Toscanini - and J.P. Morgan - of society band leaders...Davis, whose sensitivity to the musical tastes of gilt edged society was matched by an acute business sense, played for the rich and well connected at debutante and White House balls when the bunny hug and turkey trot were the latest rage.

Having started out as a student of business who played the violin for pleasure in a family quartet, he headed a musical empire that at times had as many as 80 bands with more than 1,000 musicians on its payroll

while all those bands performed at fashionable hotels and resorts, on Broadway and on ships at seas, Davis himself provided his distinctive "society beat" for the weddings and debuts of the Astors, Du Ponts, Rockefellers, Fords, Dukes, Drexels and Firestones. He also led the band at seven inaugural Balls for Presidents from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.

Meyer Davis Plays Cole Porter. Conducted by Emery Davis. LP, 1973 [Monmouth Evergreen MES 6813]


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