Rhapsody in Blue- Part One

[767373jae]

This one of the few versions of this song that hold true to the original. The real original also had banjos! Still looking for that online. I have it here but, have no way of transferring to my computer:(

[albertfromvienna]

Wrong notes? Uhm, yes, unfortunately it is necessarily so. Strange way to show how everlasting Gershwin's music is.... But I play wrong notes as well....

[connberkshire]

It's very interesting to hear different interpretations of this dazzling piece of music- I first heard this piece of music over thirty years ago in elementary school and it remains to this day one of my favorite orchestral pieces...

[ryaniscool555]

my high school band is doing this song

[connberkshire]

Wow- what an ambitious project- please post it when complete!

[yiblon]

@ryaniscool555 Of course they are.

[Largo64]

Interesting photos, too. I think I recognized Cole Porter in there. I know you had Jolson, Eddie Cantor, and a young fellow named Harry (Bing) Crosby. There were the Marx Brothers, Rudy Vallee, and Jimmy Durante with his jazz band, too! I'm only 65, but I do remember a lot of those guys.

[LAOPERAMAN]

Lots of wrong notes all over the place in the Orchestra too

[salexlindsay]

Who's on the piano? Lots of wrong notes and rhythmic errors!

[Largo64]

Not necessarily wrong notes. There are several versions of the Rhapsody, all written by Gershwin and some performed by him. It's interesting to me to hear this early version. I have a recording of Whitemans big orchestra, which is quite different from this. I have also heard a Duo-Art piano roll of Gershwin himself playing this, sans orchestra. He was quite a pianist. He sounded like he had four hands.

[Zombieman654]

how does one sound like they have four hands

[Largo64]

Play real fast? Hee hee! If something is played well enough it can sound that way.