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Jack Ross

CINDERELLA

(JACK ROSS, E. Nemeth)

Dot 16333

No. 16   April 28, 1962

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Nearly a year before  Herb Alpert  recorded “The Lonely Bull” and got hip to the commercial potential of

Americanizing sounds from south of the border, Jack Ross cut and released “Happy Jose (Ching Ching)”

(#57, 1962).   Dot Records picked up the novelty instrumental for national distribution from the small Ramal

label, and Jack almost had a top 40 hit on his hands.

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“Cinderella,” the follow-up to “Happy Jose,” was an entirely different animal–a comedy record.  Ross, in this

case, played a beatnik storyteller; in his hands, the familiar fairy tale was transformed into a jive-talkin’,

pig-Latin string of titillating innuendos.   Both disks were produced by Norman Malkin, the husband

of MARGIE RAYBURN and founder of THE SUNNYSIDERS.   Malkin wrote most of  the selections for Ross’

few recordings.   Dot issued Ross’ solitary album later in 1962.

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Jack Ross (b. 1917) had been a trumpeter and orchestra leader throughout the big band era; he performed

for 1 5 years at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, and later, at the Sahara Tahoe.

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Jack Ross died on December 16, 1982.