Vintage 1964 SEALED Harpo Marx MONO LP - NEW VINYL - Mercury Wing Hi Fidelity

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Vintage 1964 SEALED Harpo Marx MONO LP - NEW VINYL - Mercury Wing Hi Fidelity

Still Sealed - vinyl has never been out of the original packaging.

Please see photos.  Record will be shipped in special LP mailer.  We can combine 2 LPs in one shipment if requested prior to payment.  We do not ship Media Mail as it is not insured.

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Harpo Marx created this Mercury Long Play album with a two-pronged purpose. Because he himself has become a hi-fi bug during the past four years, he stresses music that will prove a tweeter-and-woofer tester. Because he's a veteran harpist with years of entertaining every kind of an audience, he stresses beautifully melodic themes and contagious rhythms. Here you'll find his high-register harp reproduced as you might hear him in person, accompanied by a group of Hollywood's finest musicians.

HARPO MARX - Strictly Personal

Despite the ever increasing competition in the ranks of show business, Harpo Marx has made his mark year after year by being unorthodox. No other comedian would ever have thought to make a success of a deaf mute performance, garbed in a mop-like wig, a ragged gabardine coat, a battered silk hat and a honk-honk cane. Harpo's harpistics are just as original because he never had a music lesson. Harpo even tunes his harp differently than the standard harp.

Today he has graduated from a $40 antique harp to a $12,000 instrument. Yet, he works out new numbers by having a teacher-pianist play them on the piano while he transposes on the harp. In the grooves of HARPO, you will find again a very distinctive and individual treatment of the harp and background orchestra. Few realize that Harpo's pantomime presentation also is a complete reversal of form in that he worked until World War II with his brothers, singing bass in a quartet and doing verbal banter with them. Harpo currently spends much time in social and charity work which he started heavily during World War II, touring camps and hospitals throughout the United States. He still manages about four hours a day of practice on the harp.

PERSONNEL PROFILES

The intriguing background for HARPO is provided by the Freddy Katz Orchestra. Katz, while musical director for the Seventh Army Headquarters in Europe, backed touring artists such as Lena Horne, Vic Damone, Mindy Carson and other luminaries. As a cellist, he worked with the National Symphony, the Acolian String Quartet, and even the Chico Hamilton Progressive Jazz group.

Co-featured is Harpo's son Bill Marx. Young Marx arranged and conducted That's All and scored Lullaby Doll and They Say It's Wonderful. His work here predicts a brilliant future. The remainder of the arrangements were artfully written by Katz.

The eight piece orchestra includes drums, one reed man doubling flute, clarinet and piccolo; bass; guitar; cello; vibraharp; and two pianos doubling celeste.