BEAMS Meyer tcc) end THE SONGS OF SAMMY TIMBERG Paton BETTY BOOP, POPEYE, SUPERMAN Pp eOLS: $010.18 ols coh COM Ose I beerShannon Cullem Shannon was awarded her BFA at Souithern Methodist University, after attending The Juilliard Schoo! of Music in Manhattan. She received carly training in dance at The Studio of Santa Cruz in California and further training at the San Francisco Ballet and the Royal Academy of Ballet in Londen, She has sung and performed as Betty Boop, working with Ms, Pat Timberg, at the World Animation Celebration tributes to Sammy Timberg in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center's Real to Reel performances, as well as cabaret events at such venues as the Red Blazer and Don't Tell Mama in New York City. Shannon is the grand-daughter of Sammy Timberg ‘www.ballerinapilot.com Shannon Cullem Richard Halpern Known as "Mister Tin Pan Alley’, Richard carries his audiences back to the genteel musical times beginning in the 1910s through the 1930s. Successful on both coasis, he has entertained in New York City at Lincoln Center and cabarets like The Red Blazer and Don't Teli Mama. In Souther California venues, he has imparted the essence of that wild and witty generation in such places as the RIMS Queen Mary, the Cinegril, The Derby, the exclusive Jonathan Ciub, The Sweet Hot Music Festival and the famed Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. wwaw.mrtinpanalley.com Lichard Falpern Mora's Modern Rhythmists This dance orchestra plays classic jazz and swing tunes of the 1920s and early 1930s. Pianist end bandleader Dean Mora has assembled a top-notch Unit of fine musicians, who have put his band on the swing scene map. Mora's Modem Rhythmists is a thirteen-piece ensemble devoted to using period arrangements and transcriptions from original recordings They are established as one of the foremost interpreters of early big-band music. On the west coast, he has played at The Derby, the Orpheum Theater and at numerous clubs and cabarets. In New York City his band had them all swinging at Lincaln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Concert Series, Dean Mora and his Modern Rhythmists vaww,morasmodern.com~ His music made them sing and dance... If you've ever whistied, “It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day’ the delightful song of the Lilliputians from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, or seen Betty Boop singing, “Don't Take My Boop-Oop-A-Doop Away.” or watched Superman soaring to the strains of the thunderous “Superman March’, you know Sammy Timberg...the man who breathed life into these characters with his music. After fourteen years in vaudoville and composing for Broadway musical in the late Twenties, Sammy produced a steady supply of spirited sones \written for the classic Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s and 1840s Popeye, Clive Oyl, Blimpie, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Little Lulu and Casper the Friendly Ghost are some of the many characters whose callulcid antics ho enlivened with his music. In his book, OF MICE AND MAGIC, Leonard Maltin wrote that Sammy's melodies provided the cartoons "with some of their most endearing moments.” ‘As a composer of popular music, Sammy collaborated with noted lyricists Frank Loesser, Sammy Lerner, ‘Sammy Cahn and Buddy Kaye among others. In his retrospective album, “Sinatra - The Columbia Years 1943-1952", Frank Sinatra included Sammy's song, "Help Yourself To My Heart," which the singer recorded four decades earlier. Eydie Gorme, Mae Questel and Rudy Vallee were among a host of other artists with whom he worked When Sammy Timberg died in 1992, a vast and rich musical catalogue, combined with an amazing history was uncovered. With BOOP-OOP-A-DOOIN’, Pat Timberg has recaptured her father's magical melodies for the enjoyment of his legion of fans and has introduced his music to a new generation. ‘Although Sammy conducted a live, swing bend to accompany those timeless cartoons, much of the jazzy scores were lost behind the screen action, the dialogue and the sound effects, BOOP-OOP-A-DOOIN' compiles and recreates that music, with the help of some of today’s most talented musicians and singers, so it can be heard cn its ov, for the first time and for its own sake. When the proverbial trunk was opened, many tapes and old phonogragh records were found with Sammy's piano playing and song writer’s voice pitching his tunes. One day there will be a CD featuring those. In the meantime, there is a final, bonus track on this CD with Sammy singing and playing one of those songs. Just for the fun of it! waww timbergalley.com