I often feature some of my favorite music in this blog, which covers a pretty wide range of artists. I just realized I hadn’t paid homage to one of my longtime favorites, the Mills Brothers. A vocal quartet comprised of four brothers from Ohio, the Mills Brothers performed together for nearly 60 years from the 1920’s through the 1980’s.
I love these guys . I know it’s an older and seemingly dated sound but I have never heard anything from them that wasn’t an absolutely gorgeous sound. Their voices have a richness that you seldom hear and they mesh together so effortlessly that it allows the listener to sink into the music like a soft mattress.
Or to put it in visual terms, their sound has the richness and depth of the colors in the most vivid stained glass windows, the deep reds and blues that glow as though lit from inside. I don’t know if anybody knows what I trying to say with this analogy. All I’m trying to say is that they made beautiful music with an ease and a quality that you seldom see today. If you could sing like this, why would you want to sing in amy other way?
Here’s one of my favorites from them, Paper Doll…
And here’s a 1938 recording of several songs. I mainly wanted to have you hear the first, an English version of the Italian classic Funiculi Funicula, where their voices fill all the parts of the song including horns and strings. Great stuff…
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