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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.
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