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September, 2021. Asbury Park. Paul Goldfinger photograph.  Click to enlarge.

 

JOHNNY HARTMAN with a fabulous song from Brigadoon. that you won’t hear at the Festival.

 

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1. on January 17, 2022 at 10:45 pm Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor @Blogfinger.net

   Growing up I knew many Broadway scores, but I think my Mom didn’t care for “Brigadoon.” So I first heard “Almost Like Being in Love” when I played in the sax section of the Fairleigh Dickinson U. Jazz Band. Two of my band-mates were true professionals, and one, a pianist, actually wrote an arrangement of this song for us.

   I was so impressed and I loved this song. What an idea: “Almost like being in love.” Alan Jay Lerner wrote those lyrics in 1947 for “Brigadoon.” I think I experienced that once or twice in my life.

   My advice to young people is don’t settle for “almost.”

   
   
2. on January 17, 2022 at 3:44 pm George Held

   Good to hear the late Johnny again. I saw him live in NYC when he was sapped by his final illness. Hartman & Coltrane was one of my favorite albums.

   
   

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