Johnny Mandel was the arranger of the Hoagy Carmichael album Hoagy Sings Carmichael , a really fantastic album featuring the veteran songwriter performing some of his own well-known tunes. I never noticed. By the mid s, Johnny Mandel was considered to be among the most respected people in the music business, beloved for both his arranging and composing skills.
He had many famous friends, including singer and lyricist Peggy Lee. In , Mandel was tasked with writing the music to the comedy film The Russians Are Coming , and he asked his friend Lee to write the lyrics to the love theme. She painted for him a word picture that included two lovers embracing on a beach. Mandel was amazed because he wrote this particular music for a scene almost exactly like that in the film, and he had never told Peggy Lee about it.
Stay with us. On this album, which also won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Album, he recorded a number of Johnny Mandel originals, including these next two songs. The first was a song that did not come from a film, featuring lyrics by the husband and wife songwriting team of Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Mandel also did the arrangements for this album.
Jazz songwriter Dave Frishberg, of Schoolhouse Rock fame, was also a frequent Johnny Mandel collaborator over the years. That one was also performed by Dave Frishberg. Johnny Mandel continued to arrange and compose well into the 21st century. Mandel passed away at age 94 at his home in California on June 29, The lyrics again are by his old friends Alan and Marilyn Bergman.
The executive producer is John Bailey. Playlists for this and other Afterglow programs are available on our website. Wikimedia Commons. This week on the program, we pay tribute to composer Johnny Mandel , the man behind some of the most well-known film songs from the 20th century.
Mandel passed away last month at age Johnny Mandel was more than a composer: he was also a notable brass player and arranger who found his voice towards the end of the big band era, writing for Artie Shaw , Woody Herman and more. His reputation, especially on the West Coast, allowed him to make the transition into the world of film in That year, he composed a moody, hip jazz-based score to the Robert Wise film I Want To Live , featuring performances from Gerry Mulligan and his jazz combo.
The score earned Mandel a Grammy nomination and the attention of many filmmakers in Hollywood. The studio MGM liked Mandel's main love theme, but they wanted some words. Before he turned his attention fully to songwriting, Johnny Mandel had a respectable career as an arragner and conductor on a number of icon vocal jazz and pop albums.
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