Commercial and radio recordings of the Johnny Green Orchestra, featuring Marjory Logan, 1935-1936. 
William Paley, the president of the Columbia Broadcasting System and an investor in New York's St. Regis Hotel, encouraged John W. Green to form what became known as Johnny Green, His Piano and Orchestra. (Green added, "My arm didn't need much twisting.")  His orchestra made dance records for the Columbia and Brunswick companies, in a depressed era when record sales were inconsequential to a song's popularity.
In 1935 Green starred on the Socony Sketchbook, sponsored by Socony -Vacuum Oil Co. He lured the young California songstress Virginia Verrill to headline with him on the Friday evening broadcasts.  His "regular" cast of vocalists included former debutante Marjory Logan, Jimmy Farrell, and the four Eton Boys, all of whom appeared in films and on stage. 
In 1935, the practice of preserving broadcasts was expensive and impractical. We are fortunate that any radio recordings survive at all.  Green's piano playing is intricate, and his musical ideas are exceedingly clever. Green was at the top of his field in New York, and he continued conducting on radio and in theatres into the '40s, until he decided to move to Hollywood and make his mark in the film business.
The ability to cleverly orchestrate and attractively present seven new songs per week is nearly unfathomable today. Green's imaginative orchestrations, made with the assistance of Conrad Salinger, Dave Terry (second piano) and others, elevated popular songs to their most sophisticated form.


Johnny Green Orchestra with Marjory Logan

May 26 2014

Johnny Green and His Orchestra, radio broadcast, 1934

Not Bad (No. 2) Vocal by Jimmy Farrell & Marjory Logan

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Love, Come Take Me, Vocal Marjory Logan

Not Bad (No. 3) Vocal Jimmy Farrell & Marjory Logan

Taken from the forthcoming album PLEASE. 
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BAD LAW

My baby surrendered to fate
And I couldn’t even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer’s aide was in vain 
Cause I knew they were out to get me

Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

En route to my cell I retraced every step
and found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely

A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall 

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
 
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded, mixed and produced by Kato Ådland at Studio 5071, Bergen July/Dec 2013. 
Drums recorded by Henning Vatne Svoren at Ocean Sound, Giske July 2012.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, guitars.
Kato Ådland: bass, keyboards.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion.

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Sondre Lerche - Bad Law

Dieter Moebius charted new "Krautronik" ground as one half of Cluster (with Hans-Joachim Roedelius) for many years. The Americans Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two electronic musicians who could not be more different to one another. Story is known for his warm soundscapes whilst Leidecker has made an name for himself, or rather for his "Wobbly" pseudonym, with experimental adventures in sound. "Snowghost pieces" features harmonious, electronic improvisations of the highest order. Hypnotic rhythms embellished with sometimes bizarre, always surprising sounds and noises. On CD / LP+CD / DL

Not Bad (No. 3) Vocal Jimmy Farrell & Marjory Logan

Peter Mintun