Billy Mayerl playing Marigold
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This video apparently barely scratched the surface of what he could do. Dexterity, musicianship, and a sense of humor - it would appear that we now know where Victor Borge learned some of his tricks. This is a delightful post.
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Have you seen the 1940 clip on WPA Film Library of Billy Mayerl & George Gee? Thanks for this one.
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the original McCartney
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1944 is the definitive date. That's the date given at the British Pathe website featuring this - and other - Mayerl clips.
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"This austerity business" surely refers to post-war austerity measures. Mayerl was only in his mid-fifties when he died, and I suspect this was done around ten years before that.
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It's going back a bit now. but one story I remember was that during WWll my teacher was not fit enough to fight. Dunno why, but he worked in munitions instead. He was a pro musician pre-war and had to stop playing. To keep his fingers in fettle, he praticed scales in downtime at work, on a plywood keyboard, marked out with ''dumb keys'. I tell you, he could really syncopate. I never fully mastered it. I guess the lessons were 'Master-classes' rather than lessons.
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TheStockwell. 1944, An Interesting year for listeners. The Robinson Family ( a precursor of Mrs dale's Diary; Billy Mayerl ( lovely to hear him again): & the V1s ( this is ours - Dad boosting morale). I'm 73 tomorrow & revel in clips like this. Many thanks Popexp & YouTube
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kingsott 1 year ago
@kingsott You are quite welcome, I'm glad so many people have enjoyed this.
popexp 1 year ago
My Piano Teacher took lessons from this guy. I am 71 myself, so work it out. Yes I'd say about 1928-9.
MiCompre 1 year ago
That's amazing. Do you know any stories you could share?
popexp 1 year ago
That's amazing. Do you know any stories you could share?
popexp 1 year ago