SPOTLIGHT for OCTOBER 26TH...

Entry for October 26th, 2007

SPOTLIGHT for

OCTOBER 26th...

BIRTHDAYS

1913 Charles Daly "Charlie" Barnet
Tenor Sax

b. 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.

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
“Graveyard Dream Blues”
- Josie Miles
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/jo...dream.ram

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

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SPOTLIGHT for
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BIRTHDAYS

1909 Buddy Banks, Tenor Sax
b. Dallas, TX, USA. d. 1991

1907 Edgar W."Puddinghead" Battle
Trumpet/songwriter,
b. Atlanta, GA, USA, d. Feb. 6, 1977, New York, NY, USA.
Bio:
www.geocities.com/Paris/Lef..._edgar.htm


1920 "Blind Jim" Brewer, guitar
b. Brookhaven, MS, USA.
Brewer performed regularly on Maxwell Street singing both blues and religious songs.
INFO:
cowdery.home.netcom.com/maxwel...en.html
More:
www.howardberkman.com/newhowa...wer.html

1908
Johnny Burke, lyricist
b. Antioch, CA, USA

d. Feb. 25, 1964, New York, NY, USA.

Over his career, composer Johnny Burke worked with various lyricists from the mid-1920s through the late '40s, but curiously, only after he had reached his 40th birthday did he have his first "Big" hit -"Yearning" (1925). The lyricist was Benny Davis and, in 1928, this team had another hit in "Carolina Moon". Johnny next teamed with lyricist Al Dubin, and among their big successes were "Tip Toe Through the Tulips With Me" (1929), "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes" (1930) and their greatest success, "For You," which was also a "hit" recording for the Casa Loma Orchestra with vocalist Kenny Sargent. The mid-30s found Burke next teamed with lyricist Edgar Leslie in the mid-'30s. This new team was responsible for such popular hits as "On Treasure Island," "Moon Over Miami" and 1937's "It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane," among others. Burke's final hit came in 1948 with "Ramblin' ose,". This time, the lyricist was Joseph McCarthy, Jr.

MORE:
www.riverwalk.org/proglist/.../burke.htm
Wikipedia Bio:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John...(lyricist)
MORE:
www.btinternet.com/~radical...burke.htm

1941 "Chubby Checker", vocals
b. Spring Gulley, SC, USA. né: Ernest Evans.
This singer is best known for popularizing the dance "The Twist" with his 1960 single "The Twist". né: Ernest Evans.
Chubby Checker Online
www.chubbychecker.com/
Chubby Checker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubby_Checker

1922 Von Freeman
Tenor Sax
b. Chicago, IL, USA.
Von Freeman Home Page
www.members.tripod.com/go5432...an.html

1930 Nancy Harrow
(bop) vocals
b. New York, NY, USA.
At age seven, she began to study the Classical piano, before first deciding to become a dancer, and then to be a singer
MORE:
www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesi...0/Harrow.html
Web-Site: Nancy Harrow
www.nancyharrow.com/

1912 Gabriel Julian, Piano
b: Newark, NJ, USA
d: Sept. 29, 2002, Age 89.
Born in Newark, NJ, Gabriel Julian lived in East Orange, NJ before relocating to Mountainside, NJ in 1955. He earned his bachelors degree in chemistry from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1935. While in school, he was one of the founders of the University of Alabama Cavalers Jazz Ensemble ( here's a photo of the Cavaliers on the Bandstand, ), and was a member of that group from 1931 through 1935.
During World War II, he was the chief warrant officer with the 100th Infantry Division from 1941 through 1946 and received the Bronze Star. He also played in the 100th Infantry Division band. For 56 years, Julian was a self-employed musician before retiring in 1985. During his career, he arranged music for Glenn Miller as well as for the CBS and NBC television networks. He is also well remembered as the original piano player for the Bobby Byrne dance band. He and vocalist Dorothy Claire were with the band during 1940-'41, when they played at New York's Glen Island Casino and Meadowbrook clubs.

1889 Manuel Manetta, Piano
b. New Orleans, LA, USA. d. Oct. 10, 1969

1909 Booker Pitman, Alto Sax
b. Fairmont Heights, MD, USA. d. Oct. 13, 1969.

1877 Fiddlin' Cowan Powers
champion (C&W) Fiddler
b. Russell County, VA, USA.
INFO:
www.well.com/user/rachel.../powers.html
MORE + *LISTEN!!:
www.1001tunes.com/fiddlers/...owers.html

1911 John Roberts, vocals
b. Small Hope, Andros Island, BWI.

1925 George Theodore Wein
Piano/Impresario/vocals
b. Boston, MA, USA.
Studied with Margaret Chaloff (mother of Serge Chaloff), and later with Sam Saxe and Teddy Wilson. He was playing in local clubs even while attending Boston University. In 1946 played with Max Kaminsky; 1947 with Edmund Hall; 1949 with "Wild" Bill Davison; and from the 1950s on, he played with such Jazzmen as Jimmy McPartland, Pee Wee Russell, Vic Dickenson, and Jo Jones - all mostly at his own Clubs in Bostonl and mainly at his club Storyville. In 1954, he started promoting the Newport Jazz Festival (Newport RI), now expanded to include the Newport Fest in French Lick, IN; Toronto, Canada and Boston, MA. Also toured Europe with the Newport Festival Orch.
MORE:
www.oldies.com/artist/bio...d_3461.html
MORE:
wiki.killuglyradio.com/index....ge_Wein

Notable Events
on this date include:

1901.

The Victor Talking Machine Company
was incorporated and later merged with
Radio Corporation of America.
The new "RCA-Victor" would become a
leader in phonographs and recordings.

The famous "Victrola" brand trademark,
-a picture of "Nipper" the dog, and the
words "His Master's Voice", appeared on all
RCA-Victor phonographs and record labels.

1946.
James "Tim" Brymn
bandleader/songwriter
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 64

1967.
Woody Guthrie
guitar/songwriter
died in Queens, NY, USA.
Age: 55


1969.
"Skip" James, guitar/piano
died in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Age: 67

1975.
Dean Upson
C&W vocals
died.
(b. Nov. 12, 1900, Chicago, IL, USA).
Member (and co-founder) group: "The Vagabonds"

1976.
"Queen" Victoria Spivey
piano/singer-songwriter
died in New York, NY, USA.
Age: 69

Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:

1927
"St. Louis Cyclone Blues"
~Lonnie Johnson
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/lj...blues.ram

**1928
"Crazy Rhythm"
~Sammy Stewart and his Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/mi...hythm.ram

1928
"Wob-a-ly Walk"'
~Sammy Stewart and his Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/mi...ywalk.ram

1928
"Stack O' Lee"
~Cliff Edwards "Ukulele Ike"
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ik...kolee.ram

MORE ABOUT
STACK O'LEE
aka
STAGGER LEE:
ml.islandnet.com/pipermail...15490.html
Stagger Lee:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_O'Lee
MORE:
www.answers.com/topic/stagger-lee
MORE:
www.geocities.com/blueskat2...e_home.htm

1929
"Jonestown Blues"
~Cannon's Jug Stompers
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...blues.ram

1929
"Noah's Blues"
~Cannon's Jug Stompers
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...blues.ram

1929
"Pretty Mama Blues"
~Cannon's Jug Stompers
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...ymama.ram

1929
"The Rooster's Crowing Blues"
~Cannon's Jug Stompers
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...owing.ram

1929
"Whoa Mule! Get Up In The Alley"
~Cannon's Jug Stompers
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...getup.ram

1929
"She's Driving Me Wild"
~Wilton Crawley
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cr...ewild.ram

1929
"Snake Hip Dance"
~Wilton Crawley
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cr...dance.ram

1929
"Taking Your Place"
~Memphis Jug Band
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/mj...place.ram

1930
"Chinatown, My Chinatown"
~Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/he...atown.ram

1930
"Somebody Loves Me"
~Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/he...vesme.ram

1930
"Homemade Sunshine"
~Ted Lewis and his Band
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/le...emade.ram

1935
"I'm In The Mood For Love"
~Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Lo...RLOVE.ram

1935
"La Cucaracha"
~Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Lo...racha.ram

1935
"You Are My Lucky Star"
~Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
*LISTEN!!:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Lo...yStar.ram

1941 "Elmer's Tune"~Dick Jurgens Orch
1941 "Jim ", - Dinah Shore voc.
1947 "Near You ", - Andrews Sisters

**1928
Crazy Rhythm

Crazy rhythm, here's the doorway
I'll go my way, you'll go your way
Crazy rhythm, from now on

We're through.
Here is where we have a showdown
I'm too high-hat, you're too low-down
Crazy rhythm, here's goodbye to you!
They say that when a high-brow meets a low-brow
Walkin' along Broadway
Soon the high-brow
He has no brow
Ain't it a shame?
And you're to blame
What's the use of prohibition?
You produce the same condition
Crazy rhythm, from now on, we're through
Crazy rhythm, I've gone crazy
rhythm too

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