Dick Lane Quartet – Swingin' Down The Lane
Released 1958
Recording and Session Information
San Francisco, January 15, 1958
Dick Lane, clarinet, vocals; Jim West, bas, vocals; Don Luciani, accordian, vocals; Patti Richards, cocktail drums, vocals; unknown guitar, drums; Cy Touff, horn arrangement
8403 I married an angel
8404 A-tisket, a-tasket
8405 Stormy weather
8406 Singin' in the rain
8407 Lazy river
8413 Why did you leave me ?
8414 Makin' whoopee
8415 People will say we're in love
8416 Back in your own backyard
8417 Winter wonderland
Swingin' down the lane
Track Listing
| Back In Your Own Backyard | Rose. Jolson, Dryer | January 15 1958 |
| I Married An Angel | Rogers, Hart | January 15 1958 |
| Making Whoopee | Donaldson, Kahn | January 15 1958 |
| People Will Say We're In Love | Rogers, Hammerstein | January 15 1958 |
| Winter Wonderland | Bernard, Smith | January 15 1958 |
| Why Did You Leave Me | Kaye | January 15 1958 |
| A-Tisket A-Tasket | Fitzgerland, Alexander | January 15 1958 |
| Stormy Weather | Arlen, Koehler | January 15 1958 |
| Up A Lazy River | David, Dubin, Raskin | January 15 1958 |
Liner Notes
...AN OPEN LETTER
U.S.A.
1958
Dear Listener:
The Dick lane Quartet is back with our second album, "Swingin' Down the Lane." Our first album, "Without Sauce, " while well received throughout the country (for which we 're so grateful) was recorded early in our life, only five months after we were organized. We're a year older now and in "Swingin' Down the Lane, " we feel that we offer a much better group, based on greater maturity and conception in our efforts.
We've been on tour this past year, singing and playing for many types of audiences. Our road trips took us to the Sands and New Frontier Hotels in Las Vegas, the Chase Hotel in St. Louis, the Olympic Hotel in Seattle and the Riverside Hotel in Reno, as well as countless supper clubs and show bars throughout the Midwest and East.
We've done a few television shows, both national and local, and are currently appearing in the Cirque Room of the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco.
We've tried to present an album that will give you, the listener, variety and color. An album utilizing a greater scope of the group's talent. Again, we're presenting almost entirely the standard tunes that, through the years, have proven to be the best and most popular songs.
To individualize the group for you, we present three solo voices in "Swingin' Down the Lane." Patti Richards, our female lead voice (and easily the prettiest member of the group) does "Stormy Weather, the beautiful ballad of the early '30 's.
The only new song on the album - featuring Dick lane, our leader - is "Why Did You leave Me?" The tune was written (the lyrics, too) by Norman Kaye, of the very famous Mary Kaye Trio, and we feel it's a standard of the future.
"Up a lazy River" is soloed by Jim West, our bass player.
The fourth member of our group, while not featured as a solo voice, is easily our most important member and demonstrates his talents throughout the album - for without Don Lusiani, we would have no group. All of our vocal and musical arrangements are his creations. We feel that Don is one of the best young arrangers in the country (although we may be a bit prejudiced, we hope you'll agree'.) and we hope you listen for his use of chords and passing tones, and his clever and original handling of lyrics. (By the way, he does have one dramatic solo - as the intellect in the introduction to "A Tisket, A Tasket.")
As in our first album, we provide our own musical background - Dick on clarinet, Don on accordion, Jim on bass and Patti on cocktail drums - but augmented on this album by a guitar and full drum set. Arrangements for the tunes featuring horns in the background were scored by the very talented and capable Cy Touffs. And so, listeners, we hope we've achieved our goal: to present an album that will please any discriminating person - and especially you!
Thank you,
The Dick Lane Quartet
