Toth, Jerry - The Music Of

Tracks

Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Tell Me Now	02:49
	2	Make Me Rainbows	02:29
	3	To Wait for Love	02:14
	4	Here's That Rainy Day	02:30
	5	The Worst That Could Happen	02:34
	6	But For Love	02:29

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	The Importance of the Rose	02:09
	2	It's a Great Life	02:09
	3	Guitar Concerto: Adagio	04:07
	4	"Odd Couple" Theme	02:46
	5	The Fool On the Hill	02:42
	6	I've Got My Eyes On You	02:42

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Information/Write-up

A young man of medium build, Jerry Toth stands very tall in his native Ontario. With each passing year, his stature throughout the world, continues to grow. 1967, for example, brought Jerry Toth international recognition for his musical score for the Morris/Claman music for the Ontario Government's film, “A Place To Stand”, first exhibited during Canada’s Centennial Celebrations at Montreal’s Expo '67. In 1968, in Hollywood, the picture received a coveted Academy Award. It has now been seen by millions of people, and its music has been inscribed on an LP, also arranged and conducted by Mr. Toth.

If someone were to write “The Jerry Toth Story”, it would probably begin when he was fourteen years of age and just starting to receive plaudits for his prowess as a saxophone and woodwind soloist in high school bands. He would be featured in scores of school assemblies and concert band concerts. He would also be heard on record as a sideman in a number of studio sessions, and in a number of radio and television studio bands. He would become one of the leading woodwind players in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto.

The scenario would also denote the emergence of Jerry Toth as an arranger, composer and conductor, with many great moments spent as a member of the band. Some of the greatest in his school and university days could be paralleled during the studio years with whom Jerry has worked in such national television shows as “Parade”, “Mallets and Brass”, “The Hit Parade” etc. – people like Sammy Davis Jr., Carol Lawrence, Melody Gorce, Julietta Rosa, Maynard Ferguson and Stan Kenton. More memorable men & women, Joe Williams, Julius LaRosa, Maynard Ferguson and Kate Smith.

More credit would be given for his long association with radio-TV commercial production and the writing of film prize scores. His original CTL commercial “Army”, in New York, led to his long and continued receiving musical commissions for CBC shows showing Jerry Toth in Vancouver, Toronto, and once presenting full Canadian big band TV.

In 1969, the picture was more clear and beautiful. Here was Jerry Toth, the man of music, and during the course of one long studio session, surrounded by twenty-five of Canada’s finest musicians, participating in another Canadian Talent Library LP production of the music he loves. With selections drawn from the pop, jazz, vocal and classical music world – and several of Jerry Toth’s own compositions – the result is this present album, THE MUSIC OF JERRY TOTH.

He has provided us in recent years with a full-length LP for CTL. That album was entitled TELL ME NOW and it was recorded at Toronto’s Hallmark Studios, and features his full band and orchestra. Also, in tribute to Jerry’s own career as a writer and orchestrator, there is the arrangement of “The Importance of The Rose”, originally from a French film, and beautifully rendered in a sensitive ballad arrangement by Jerry Toth.

Recording Engineer: Peter Houston
Toth is pronounced to rhyme with moth
Recording Supervision: Johnny Burt
Executive Producer: J. Lyman Potts
Repertoire Consultant: Arthur Godfrey

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