Dick Hyman Trio

This guy was a keyboard whiz, who stayed more or less on the fringes of pop music, doing albums that were somewhere between avant garde and kitch. In the late 60s he resurfaced as Dick Hyman & His Electric Eclectics, and we will consider them separately.

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Dick Hyman Trio:

• Theme From Threepenny Opera – The Threepenny Opera was a German operetta written by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, and it was translated into English and it hit the stage in 1956, and the theme song hit the charts in about a dozen different versions. There was this one, one by Richard Hayman & Jan August, Lawrence Welk, Louis Armstrong, Billy Vaughn, and Les Paul. Bobby Darin sang words and revived it in 1959, and Ella Fitzgerald put it back on the charts in 1960. This version is whistful - harpsichord and whistling...