Jack Sheldon

So that last track was an interesting piece, wasn't it? It was a version of Happy Together, which is the old Turtles pop number.

spliced together with a track called Honey Pie but the guy at the core of it was a guy called Jack Sheldon who was a pretty hot trumpet player also an actor and he played on a lot of West Coast albums actually but he did do a series of sort of offbeat loungy things and that track was coming off the album that is called The Cool World of Jack Sheldon Groovy Also groovy was my man Vince Giraldi.

So he was a keyboard player also on the West Coast there.

That sort of Latin-style work was his forte, but that was his version of The Beat Goes On from the album called The Eclectic Vince Giraldi.

And the radio thing, which I did for 25 years, I kind of look back at just with amazement because while I was doing that, We were still doing.

We made two documentaries, Trying to Get Good, The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon, which we're very proud of.

And that's on Vimeo, by the way.

Most people know Jack Sheldon from Schoolhouse Rock.

He's singing Just a Bill and Conjunction Junction.

But Jack Sheldon was a genius jazz trumpeter.

He was one of the really finest jazz trumpeters ever.

And a hilarious comedian who had his own sitcom in the 60s done by the same people who did Get Smart.

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well he used to play every sunday night at the money tree in toluca lake and we used to go almost every sunday really yeah and sit there and listen to him for hours

And then a friend of mine, Doug McIntyre, did a documentary called Trying to Get Good.

And I don't know if you ever saw that.

It's the documentary on Jack Sheldon.

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Also, I did look it up.

Jack Sheldon, the trumpet or trumpet.

He voiced Bill in I'm just a bill.

Oh, shit.

It's just funny things that are happening, funny observational things about adult life, and Johnny Bravo is kind of the same way.

I think, too, it's interesting to see Johnny Bravo now that it was kind of mocking the pickup artist-type character guys or these alpha dudes who are- You know, the personality is repellent, but are visually, like, they hit the perfect body that they imagined they could give themselves through constant exercise and hating themselves.

And I think it was also a way to be playfully, sorry, just playful about political correctness of the '90s, because you've got this...

He's not like, "I'm gonna fight the wokies." He wasn't saying that.

This is not a singular example of that, but it's very focused on it.

I guess Elvis dies in the '70s, and the version of Elvis Johnny is might be taken from that era, at least in terms of, like, mannerisms and catchphrases and taglines and stuff.

I think w- this reflects, too, the last generation of guys who got in charge of cartoon shows that weren't indoctrinated.

They weren't too young when the first Star Wars movie came out.

That's music by Diane Shore with a song entitled Never Let Me Go.

And the personnel on that cut, Diane Shore on vocals, John Guerin on drums, Peter Cristallet on saxophone, Jack Sheldon trumpet, Richard Todd French horn, John T. Johnson is on tuba.

Now, Diane Shore, this lady has worked with some of the greats in jazz.

Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, and Quincy Jones, among others.

We'll be hearing his 1959 take of You're Driving Me Crazy, which you can find on a record he did with the great Annie Ross.

I'll play one of those vocal cuts down the line for us, but for now, we'll swing it with Zoot, and then he'll pass it off to Lena Horne with a positively in-the-pocket version of I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, which you can find on Lena's beautiful 1962 album, Lena: Lovely and Alive, arranged by Marty Paich and, uh, featuring trumpeter Jack Sheldon.

It also includes Gene DeNovey on piano, a legend here on the Toronto jazz scene.

So here we go.