If all you remember of Jackie Gleason is "The Honeymooners" and "smokey And The Bandit" then this may be a surprise: This album still holds the Billboard record for the longest stay on the Top Ten chart - 153 weeks, which is basically three years).
Gleason composed music. He got the idea for this album when he was watching a Clark Gabel movie and had the thought that the film was terrible but the music made it tolerable. He left the theater thinking that if Gabel needed a good music score then what hope does a guy from Brooklyn have? And so he wrote this.
It's pretty good. It's background music for you and your Lady, but that's what he wrote it for. He can set the mood, but you need to do the rest.
I guess Jackie Gleason was a real bastard to work for, but a very talented individual and great comedic sense.
ReplyDeleteThat's some old fashioned romantic music there, all righty.