- Entry for October 26th, 2007
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SPOTLIGHT for
OCTOBER 26th...
BIRTHDAYSb. New York, NY, USA. d. Sept. 4, 1991, USA. Had his first band when he was 16. By age 20 he had formed his first big band. By 26, he had a "smash" hit recording with "Cherokee" (1939) plus a reputation as a fine saxophonist and swing bandleader. In common with Benny Goodman, he racially integrated his band early on, -a band that was extremely popular during the Big Band era, and that also appeared in several films. Charlie had an eye for young talent, and discovered many budding artists, including Lena Horne.
1913 Charles Daly "Charlie" Barnet
Tenor Sax
1900 Sterling Bruce Conaway
banjo/guitar/mandolin, d. 1973, Washington, D.C., USA (Brother of banjoist and guitarist Lincoln M. Conway.)
1894 Henry James "Hank" Duncan, piano
b. Bowling Green, KY, USA. d: July 7, 1968, Long Island, NY, USA. Grad. Fisk Univ.
1942 Ranee Lee, vocals
b. New York (Brooklyn), NY, USA
Ranee's professional stage career started as a dancer. She also played drums and tenor saxophone with various touring groups in the United States and Canada before moving to Montreal, Quebec, (ca. 1970). She subsequently focused on perfecting her exquisite vocal capabilities, and today (2005) is irrefutably one of Canada’s greatest Jazz vocalists.
Biography
Although born and raised in Brooklyn, Ranee Lee has lived in Montreal for most of her adult life, and she is best-known for her fine recordings for the Canadian Justin Time label. Lee performed as a singer while in high school, toured the U.S. with a local group, and, after she moved to Canada, she starred in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The influences of Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington can be felt at times in her singing, but Ranee Lee also has her own sound. A measure of her talent is that Milt Hinton and Oliver Jones performed on her first recording (Deep Song) and Red Mitchell was a major factor on her second (Jazz on Broadway).
~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
1907 Tony Pastor
Tenor Sax/Vocal/Leader
b. Middletown, CT, USA.
d. Oct. 31, 1969, Old Lyme, CT, USA.
Bio:
www.parabrisas.com/d_pastort.php
Notable Events
on this date include:
1934.
Composer Cole Porter
recorded (Victor) his own
composition, "You're the Top".
(From B'way show: 'Anything Goes').1935.
Talented twelve-year-old Frances Gumm sang on Wallace Beery's NBC radio show. MC and comedian George Jessel had given her the name of Judy Garland because he thought it was better than her own.
1952.
Hattie Mcdaniel, actress/vocals
died in Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA, USA.
Age: 57
1970.
"Rounder Records"
was founded in
Somerville, MA, USA.
1989.
Grace Smith, vocals
died in Newark, NJ, USA.
Age: 81
Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:
1923 “He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar”
- Rosa Henderson
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ro...urdog.ram
1923 “I Want My Sweet Daddy Now”
- Rosa Henderson
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ro...daddy.ram
1925 “Squeeze Me”
- Clarence Williams' Blue Five
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/wi...ezeme.ram
1925 “You Can't Shush Katie”
- Clarence Williams' Blue Five
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/wi...katie.ram
1925 “Angry”
-Arcadian Serenaders
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Ar...Angry.ram
1925 “The Co-Ed”
Arcadian Serenaders
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Ar...ecoed.ram
1926 “I'll Fly To Hawaii”
- Gowan's Rhapsody Makers
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/mi...awaii.ram
1926 “One And Two Blues”
- Bessie Smith
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/be...blues.ram
1926 “Young Woman's Blues”
- Bessie Smith
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/be...blues.ram
1927 “The New Twister”
- New Orleans Owls
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ow...ister.ram
1927 “Sugar”
- Red Nichols' Stompers
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ni...sugar.ram
1931 "Time On My Hands"
Leo Reisman Orch., with Lee Wiley on vocal.1933 “It's Only A Paper Moon”
-Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike"
(Billy Rose / Yip Harburg / Harold Arlen)
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ik...rmoon.ram
1944 "How Many Hearts Have You Broken"
- Stan Kenton
1944 "It Had To Be You"
- Artie Shaw Orch.
LYRICS:
Time on my hands
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view
Then if you fall, once and for all
I'll see my dreams come true
Moments to spare
With someone you care to
One love affair for two
And so with time on my hands
And you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you
"It Had To Be You"
Why do I do, just as you say
Why must I just, give you your way
Why do I sigh, why don't I try to forget
It must have been something lovers call fate
Kept me saying: "I have to wait"
I saw them all, just couldn't fall 'til we met
It had to be you, it had to be you
I wandered around, and finally found the somebody who
Could make me be true, could make me be blue
And even be glad, just to be sad thinking of you
Some others I've seen, might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do
For nobody else, gave me a thrill with all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you, wonderful you
It had to be you
Some others I've seen, might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss
But they wouldn't do
For nobody else, gave me a thrill with all your faults, I love you still
It had to be you
It had to be you
It had to be you, woah wonderful you
It had to be you
Al Bowlly
Josephine Baker
Russ Columbo
Lee Morse
October 26, 2007
SPOTLIGHT for OCTOBER 26TH...
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