Today my mom had a record sitting on her record player and it was Henry Krips.
I had never heard of Henry Krips!
He is the brother of Josef Krips who was the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1950s. Henry Krips wrote waltzes and that was what was on my mother's record.
"They're nice waltzes," my mom said. As if, they're just OK.
Henry Krips made his fortune in Australia, I have since read.
The picture on the Seraphim album above is kind of flattering but good looks do not appear to have run in that family. In the picture on the back cover Henry Krips does not look nearly as good.
Henry Krips' son Henry leads some band called Wagons. That is he in the middle.
He looks like a genial chap!
I have to say though: I do not know what Henry Krips would have thought of this...
... but being from Buffalo, where Josef Krips is a name still known around town, I know what Josef Krips would have thought of it.
Not very much.
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