Lou Busch Aka Joe Fingers Carr The Lou Busch - Joe Fingers Carr Collection 1940-

This is the latest in Acrobats series featuring the great arranger/conductor/composers of the golden era of popular music during the 1940s and 50s, which so far encompassed the likes of Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Hugo Winterhalter, Ray Conniff and others. Lou Busch was a pianist, producer, composer and arranger who, as well as working with other artists, made records himself both as Lou Busch and in the zany persona of bowler-hatted ragtime pianist Joe Fingers Carr, and under those guises had big hits with records like Zambesi, 11th Hour Melody, Portuguese Washerwoman, Sams Song and Down Yonder.\n\nJoining Capitol Records soon after it was founded in 1942, he worked with many major artists over the next two decades, and this collection features his arrangements, productions and accompaniments for Lena Horne, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Kay Starr, Margaret Whiting, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Janet Blair, Pee Wee Hunt, Dorothy Provine and others. This greate