A scintillating efficiency by Buddy Rich and his Orchestra of The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)” has been newly-remastered from the archives of The Ed Sullivan Show.
The clip comes from the version of the long-running selection collection that was broadcast on New Year’s Eve, 1967. The nice jazz drummer and his musicians had been on that episode alongside Pennsylvania pop hitmakers Jay and the Techniques and South African star Miriam Makeba.
The video reveals Rich at stage entrance and in energetic kind, with the orchestra round him in a semi-circle. They had launched their model of the much-loved observe from The Beatles’ Rubber Soul album of virtually precisely two years earlier on the dwell album Big Swing Face. The LP had been recorded by the Buddy Rich Big Band in February and March of 1967 on the Chez Club, Los Angeles. Other tracks on that set included Young-Holt Unlimited’s “Wack Wack,” Cole Porter’s “Love For Sale,” and Sonny & Cher’s “The Beat Goes On.”
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Rich, born in Brooklyn in 1917, was already broadly acknowledged within the pantheon of jazz, having damaged via on the flip of his 20s in Joe Marsala’s band, after which with Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, and numerous others. His first report in his personal identify, in 1946, was The Lester Young Buddy Rich Trio, and he went on to be a significant inspiration not just for jazz drummers however for these within the rock fraternity corresponding to John Bonham and Bill Ward.
“Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown),” principally written by John Lennon, already had many covers to its identify by the point Rich took it on, crossing genres as The Beatles’ music at all times did. Among these to sort out it in 1966 had been Waylon Jennings, Brian Hyland, Nina & Frederick, and Jan & Dean. It has gone on to draw greater than 500 renditions.
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