Nice And Easy-Maud Hixson

From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Voices- Certain Standards with Arne Fogel
Length: 03:32

Minnesota Voices Certain Standards features Maud Hixson on a Lew Spence and Marilyn & Alan Bergman song entitled "Nice And Easy". Arne Fogel also gives the background of the song. (Week 11-Day 4 when used in a series) Read the full description.

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Playing: Nice And Easy-Maud Hixson
From: KBEM

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Frank Sinatra was a genius…… By the early 1960s, he had developed some finely – honed instincts regarding the type of material he should or shouldn’t record, and what would work best for him. Occasionally, however, his attentions drifted elsewhere, and on one occasion, he initially turned down a song that would later prove to be a real winner for him. When first presented the song “Nice n Easy”, by the team of Lew Spence and Marilyn & Alan Bergman, he rejected it by literally holding the sheet music away from him and letting it drop to the floor, like so much garbage. End Of Story? Hardly! Business partner and friend Hank Sanicola recognized the song’s worth, Played it insistently for Sinatra until Frank, finally, was hooked…. He not only had Nelson Riddle make an arrangement of the tune for his next album, he made this calmly-swinging hymn to relaxed positive thinking the album’s title cut! – In this way, Frank Sinatra glided into the turbulent 1960s on a wave of laid-back optimism that helped to define the coming of the all-too-brief Camelot years….. Here’s “Nice N Easy”, sung by Minnesota’s Voice, Maud Hixson….

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Piece Description

Frank Sinatra was a genius…… By the early 1960s, he had developed some finely – honed instincts regarding the type of material he should or shouldn’t record, and what would work best for him. Occasionally, however, his attentions drifted elsewhere, and on one occasion, he initially turned down a song that would later prove to be a real winner for him. When first presented the song “Nice n Easy”, by the team of Lew Spence and Marilyn & Alan Bergman, he rejected it by literally holding the sheet music away from him and letting it drop to the floor, like so much garbage. End Of Story? Hardly! Business partner and friend Hank Sanicola recognized the song’s worth, Played it insistently for Sinatra until Frank, finally, was hooked…. He not only had Nelson Riddle make an arrangement of the tune for his next album, he made this calmly-swinging hymn to relaxed positive thinking the album’s title cut! – In this way, Frank Sinatra glided into the turbulent 1960s on a wave of laid-back optimism that helped to define the coming of the all-too-brief Camelot years….. Here’s “Nice N Easy”, sung by Minnesota’s Voice, Maud Hixson….