Re: [Harp-L] Charlie Leighton

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

Years ago, I bought three Leighton tapes. The box labels are 
copied from typewritten originals. I assumed that Leighton 
himself performed & produced them and offered them for sale 
in the SPAH store.

Title: "Old Standard Songs"
11 songs from "Please" to "I Understand"

Title: "Classical Album #1.....Charles Leighton Harmonica 
and Don Smith Piano"
6 classical pieces from "Violin Sonata" to "Afternoon of a 
Faun"

Title: "Classical Album #2.....Charles Leighton Harmonica 
and Don Smith Piano"
8 classical pieces from "Apres un Reve" to "Mazurka"

These tapes may be the ones that Richard Sleigh and others 
already have. If so, I'll just relax and enjoy them.  If 
they are rare, I will donate them to someone who would 
republish the music on CD.

Vern

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rupert Oysler" <orupert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Richard Sleigh" <rharp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Charlie Leighton


> > .................I bought the tapes that Tom talks about 
> > from Richard Farrell years before I heard Charlie play 
> > live, and although they were amazing,....................

> > .............I do hope that someone collects some 
> > unreleased recordings of Charlie's playing , even 
> > fragments, and makes them available. I would love to see 
> > more of his music out there for people to appreciate.

> From Tom Ellis:
> Years ago, at the urging of Rob P, Joe Filisko and a few 
> others, I made many efforts to search out any recording > 
> by Charlie Leighton, finally getting someone to dupe me a 
> cassette of, as I recall, something he had recorded either 
> in the late '50s or early '60s.