My Dad used to play their albums when I was a small child. Never thought I would be listening to them 50 years later! Harmonicats are great!
@josecatez3764
4 жыл бұрын
i never thought i would use shred and harmonica in the same sentence, but holy hell they can shred the ever-loving shit out of those harmonicas
@aaronberns8485
5 ай бұрын
My god! The Harmonicats basically invented techno and house music without electricity. The Fantasie Impromptu sounds unnaturally fast and upbeat for the music of its era.
@phitoerocks
13 жыл бұрын
i can't get enough of this!!!
@left_Dane_right_Dane
13 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this. Another person had this up and then removed it. It is one of my absolute favorite videos.
@coravisser727
11 жыл бұрын
this is fantasticcccc real good and great to hear this.
@TheChordplayer
12 жыл бұрын
Fantasy Impromptu really is more difficult for all three players. The lead part of Gallop has one passage that is mostly muscle memory, and not that demanding at slow speed. Fantasy lead part is full of moves that just aren't natural on the 64. And Fantasy demands smoothness that Gallop doesn't. Gallops is certainly showier. My old trio did both of these numbers on stage for many years. We played Gallop as a fun number. Fantasy took months of rehearsal and was always a real piece of work
@harkrum
8 жыл бұрын
Great!!!! We need More of this in USA!!!
@Georgeth-kb6rg
5 жыл бұрын
Brilliant !
@scootersalih
14 жыл бұрын
great! thanks for sharing!
@guidomano
13 жыл бұрын
Al Fiore, possibly the best chord harmonica player that ever played!
@jeffr40
5 жыл бұрын
What a great family the Fiore's, or the real last name Fiorentino's .. Loved them all!!! I was a friend of Al Jr. and what a great friend.Think of him often... Al Sr took both of us to McCormick Place in Chicago circa 1964 to watch Buddy Hackett and the Harmonicats play.. What a thrill ..will never forget Jeff Meath
@Tomatohater64
5 жыл бұрын
@@jeffr40 Saw some older interviews with Al. What a fabulous personality! Friendly and funny as can be.
@RobertCoulter
3 жыл бұрын
He's amazing in this, not that any of them aren't.
@carlossoria1783
9 жыл бұрын
Imposible hacerlo mejor super maravillosos.
@louswire
10 жыл бұрын
TO Joe Postove... Johnny Carson took over the Tonight Show FROM Jack Parr. So this show was Kine-scoped in the early 60's.
@TomPauls007
5 жыл бұрын
Saw this live when it aired. I was just riveted to them. Stunning feat, what these guys are doing!
@ajwindmeyer2272
3 жыл бұрын
what year was this? About 1948 if i had to guess?
@TomPauls007
3 жыл бұрын
Recall mid ‘50’s+
@marksanctuary
13 жыл бұрын
Why did that guy close his youtube account... I love this video and thought it was lost. These guys are amazing! I love watching the movements that they have to do to get to the right holes in the harmonicas.
@TimeForChimes
12 жыл бұрын
Jerry, Al, & Dom were personal friends, & great players. However, did you know that the greatest chord player of them all was a fellow by the name of Alan Pogson. Alan was the chord player who created the "Peg 'O My Heart" chord solo which the Harmonicats took & made the hit record with.
@Tomatohater64
5 жыл бұрын
Didn't know that at all. Great input.
@theharmonicaarchivist1630
3 жыл бұрын
While Alan did technically create the Peg solo, listen to him play it. Very choppy, not smooth at all. Fiore had the tone and the smoothness well ahead of Pogson.
@PaZaTz55
6 жыл бұрын
love
@MrJoeybabe25
10 жыл бұрын
Looks like the Tonight Show. Does anyone have a date on this? Fabulous!
@cannonballblues
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you...reminds me of my favorite group OK-Dreamband. CD "Clarinet-Dreams" is available for download (iTunes, amazon).
@bingerz237
10 жыл бұрын
and thank you for telling me about these guys, Tom Waits
@jerrymurad2254
10 жыл бұрын
Tom Waits?
@jerrymurad2254
10 жыл бұрын
Thats pretty cool, Jerry Murad is my grandfather. Kinda awesome that Tom Waits listens to him. We are talking about the same Tom Waits, right?
@bingerz237
10 жыл бұрын
Jerry Muradian Sure, we’re talking about Tom Waites, the screen actor from The Warriors and John Carpenter’s The Thing. Oh, but you mean the used office furniture salesman down on San Fernando Road, right? Nah, I’m just pulling your bat chain. We’re both talking the one and only constant curator and convoluted connoisseur, husband to co-writer and producer Kathleen Brennan, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall-of-Famer, Thomas Alan Waits. Kathleen’s contribution clearly improved his work considerably, not just by her professional arrangement abilities, but also thanks to her highly influential record collection that Tom inherited when they got married, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Ms Brennan who was the first one listening to your grand-pop. It truly is kind of awesome that Tom Waits listens to him, and completely awesome he shares his interest the way he does, so Joes like me get to discover such awesomeness. It’s been only a few months now but I can confidently say I’m already a name-remembering fan of your grandfather’s, his rendition of Mack the Knife being my current favorite. The atmosphere on it is just perfect for that melody. Tom had brought him up by way of a rotational drawing he did for International Record Store Day a couple years back; a wheel made up of artists names like One String Sam, The Cramps, and Freddy Fender. I think The Harmonicats was somewhere in between Maria Callas and Washington Phillips. It was actually quite the relief when I followed up the tip and found this wonderful performance, because at first I wasn’t sure if it was a real group or not. You see Mr. Waits has this hobby of occasionally making up names of musicians and bands that don’t exist and throwing them in with names of real ones. I guess he thinks it funny the idea of going into a record shop and asking, “Do you have anything by Mr. Eastside and the Skeletons, or perhaps Bill Brassiere? What about Sheba and the Babylonians?” I’ll admit, it’s a pretty good laugh, but damn Tom if it doesn’t make putting together a playlist of the recommendations more of a task than it already is. There are times when he honestly gets the spelling wrong, so I end up always having to try out a variety of different spelling possibilities before finally accepting that he’s done it again.
@paulmeentemeyer622
9 жыл бұрын
Jerry Muradian Jerry, fyi, my family and I saw them live when they performed at the Hillside Shopping Center. Also, my late father did carpentry work for Al when he lived in Westchester. Still listen to their records, including the double disk album autographed by them with Dick Gardner on the Bass.
@victorhugomendozaarroyo2756
7 жыл бұрын
Los mejores del mundo.
@GabrielMoinetharmo
9 жыл бұрын
Très beau
@TheChordplayer
11 жыл бұрын
both are demanding tracks, to be sure. as i said before, my trio played them both, at the same tempos as the 'cats, and the chopin is definitely the more difficult. once you get the moves down for gallop, its a lot of fun to play. fantasy was fun but a LOT of work, even with a lot of rehearsal. and i was even lucky enough to play gallop with jerry a few times. quite an honor.
@TheJetbirdsChicago
12 жыл бұрын
my grandpa
@ajwindmeyer2272
11 жыл бұрын
Great to see Al playing chord in this video. not to many videos of him in it.
@RobertCoulter
3 жыл бұрын
He kills it! Just amazing.
@biggestr0n
12 жыл бұрын
Hi Gil, I know it's you in there. I thank you very much for the inside info! Ron
@FretboardVisualization
14 жыл бұрын
sick!
@louswire
12 жыл бұрын
I don't know about the merits of the discussion of which piece is harder to play... but I;ve played a chromatic, and either of these pieces are a stone bitch to play at the pace Jerry sets... In my mind he'll always be King.
@louswire
11 жыл бұрын
Is there a version of this track with full orchestra backing the trio available?
@landztranz
12 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this! It's stupendous! But why do you say that the Chopin piece is more difficult than the other one? It seems mighty hard to me!
@jamesaquino9341
3 жыл бұрын
@Aquinocustomarmory
@Tomatohater64
8 жыл бұрын
Although he was unquestionably one of the best bass harp players ever, Don Les hated playing it and apparently, was none too fond of bass harmonicas period.
@BoazKimMusic
7 жыл бұрын
Stephen Pruszenski I've heard about this from other sources. I wonder if it was because of the double deck design making legato playing more difficult, or the overall tone.
@Tomatohater64
7 жыл бұрын
My guess is that the the three pound monster was just too unwieldy and, as you said, legato playing on this harmonica is, at best, challenging.
@ajwindmeyer2272
3 жыл бұрын
@@BoazKimMusic to quote Joe, "Jerry and Don both hated the bass, Jerry even said it sounded like a mother cow backing over her own teat". I remember joking about this all the time.
@BoazKimMusic
3 жыл бұрын
@@ajwindmeyer2272 That kind of makes sense. I think the acoustic double bass harmonica tone has a unique tone that doesn’t really sound like a contrabass instrument unless with good microphone technique. The single reed bass harmonica is much closer acoustically to what we would think a bass-ranged harmonica would sound, acoustically.
@andrewgillis8572
9 жыл бұрын
sick sick sick - the Chopin is Cho-stopper. A makes-you-want-to quit kind of performance. (Next would be multiple Adlers, Stevie on Burt Bacharach's TV show with the bentwood chairs). Comedians looks like two simpler positions vis a vis Hohner design despite Parr's threatening intro.
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