Re: Artie Shaw

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Thanks for the post, Robert. I heard the segment but haven't yet checked out
the expanded version of the interview on the NPR site.

Just one thing: Artie Shaw recorded "Begin the Beguine" but Cole Porter
wrote it, no?

Does he talk more about the perfectionism proclivity in the interview? Now,
that's one thing I can maybe understand...

Sandra
who never even *dreamed* of being picked up by Ava Gardner
;-)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:39 AM
Subject: Re: Artie Shaw


> For those whom it interests, NPR's Morning Edition on Friday, 3/8 had a
> segment with Artie Shaw (still very much alive and kicking at 91 or 2),
> which is not only available on the web (so they advised) but available in
an
> expanded form.
>
[snip]
> Of course, you can do that when one of your compositions ("Begin the
> Beguine") has sold, cumulatively, some twenty *million* copies, I think
the
> segment said, to date.
>
> I really identified with one thing Shaw said about himself that *did*,
> maybe, play a role in his not doing the above:  viz., his unforgiving
> perfectionism.  (Of course, I also identified completely with his being
> picked up by Ava Gardner--could've been me!  Just too young!)
>
> --Robert Cohen, whose sister has a friend named ... Artie Shaw.


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