When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
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I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.Les Baxter
In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
Les Baxter
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
Les Baxter
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
Les Baxter
But Gene Norman has an album out of me.
Les Baxter
Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter
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