In January 2012, Thomas Lauderdale and our trusty audio engineer Dave
Friedlander flew to Los Angeles to visit Thomas’s new friend, Phyllis
Diller. While there, Thomas bought a dozen of Phyllis’s bright colorful
paintings… and they recorded Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile”, which turned out
to be Phyllis Diller’s final recording, and became the soundtrack for
the many tributes to her when she passed away six months later.
Thus began the 18-month odyssey to record Get Happy, the long-awaited studio follow-up to 2009′s Splendor in the Grass,
an odyssey which featured a calvacade of vocal royalty visiting our
Portland studios, including exotic cabaret sensation Meow Meow, sunny
French eccentric Philippe Katerine, the handsome and brilliant radio
superstar Ari Shapiro, warm-hearted wunder-siblings The von Trapps, and a
riveting appearance by the exquisite Rufus Wainwright!
Anchored by our beloved and elegant vocalist China Forbes, alongside
our dazzling co-lead-singer Storm Large, finally making her recording
debut with us, the album features sixteen songs selected and arranged by
Thomas, including songs in German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish,
Farsi, Turkish and Romanian.
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