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SPOTLIGHT for NOVEMBER 26TH...
Posted in POETRY on Nov 27, 2007 at 1:05 AM

Spotlight for
November 26, 2007...



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BIRTHDAYS

1908 Trump Davidson, Cornet
b. Sudbury, ONT, Canada
d. May 2, 1978, Sudbury-ONT
Canada Played with Murray Ginsberg; Harvey Silver, and Jack Wachter

1909 Kenny Hollon, tenor sax
b. New York (Brooklyn), NY, USA.
Worked with Buddy Johnson, and Louis Jordan

1885 Rev. Andrew Jenkins, (gospel)
singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
b. Jenkinsburg, GA, USA.
Though blind, he wrote about 800 songs, and recorded over 100 records.

1905
Robert "B.J." Johnson, harmonica
b. Kansas City, MO, USA.

1907 Henry "Hot Lips" Levine, Trumpet
b. London, England. d. May, 1989.
Played
with Sidney Bechet; Original Dixieland Jazz Band; Vincent Lopez; Jelly
Roll Morton, and others. Introduced singer Dinah Shore on the American
Radio show "The Philharmonic, Symphonic, Chamber Music and Jazz Society
of Lower Basin Street"

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1906 McFarland Twins (Arthur & George)
saxophones/leaders (George, died 1997)
First
orchestra in the 1930's. was so-so. The 1942 orch was much better. They
had originally been with Fred Waring and billed as 'the twin
saxophonists'. Later, they started their own band..."Music that Wins
with the McFarland Twins", and recorded for Okeh Records. They also
made a couple of pictures in Hollywood. After WWII, they owned a
restaurant/night club in Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. (USA), and still
later, they went into the real estate business in East Williston, LI.
The above information on the McFarland Twins Orch., was graciously supplied by Mr. Wyn Walshe who was in the orchestra.

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1907
Franklyn Taft "Frank" Melrose
piano/Leader/composer
b. Sumner, IL, USA. d. Sept. 1, 1941, near Hammond, IN, USA. aka: "Kansas City Frank".
Orig.
studied violin, then self taught on piano. Among the men who played in
"Kansas City Frank's" band were Jelly Roll Morton and Pete Daily (n»:
Thaman Pierce Daily. b. May 5, 1911, b. Portland, IN, USA. d. Aug. 23,
1986, Los Angeles, CA, USA. age:75 cornet/leader.)
Frank Melrose
had a piano style that was often quite similar to Jelly Roll Morton's.
He is best-known for his work in the late 1920s.
Melrose spent
nearly all of his working career in Chicago. He began on violin and
then was largely self-taught on piano. Melrose recorded with Junie and
Jimmy Cobb, Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Bertrand, the Beale Street Washboard
Band, the Windy Rhythm Kings, the Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers and the
Cellar Boys; he also recorded 13 titles as a leader from 1929-30, some
under the pseudonyms of Kansas City Frank or Broadway Rustus.
Although
being in Chicago helped him gain some recognition in the late '20s,
Melrose's decision to stay in the Windy City resulted in his obscurity
during most of the 1930s. He worked at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
with Bud Jacobson, taught music, was with Pete Daily briefly in 1940
and occasionally worked outside of music. Melrose worked in local clubs
up until his early death.
~ Scott Yanow

1909 Jimmie Revard, bandleader
b. Pawhuska, OK, USA,
d. April 12, 1991, Texas, USA.
"The Oklahoma Playboys"
Biography
Born
into a musical Oklahoma family that had fiddled for generations, Jimmie
Revard moved to Texas before he became a teenager, but honored his home
state when he named his band Jimmie Revard's Oklahoma Playboys.
Revard's foray into the western swing scene of 1930s Texas began at St.
Mary's University and soon after, he recruited the Hofner brothers,
singer/guitarist Adolph and steel guitarist Emil. The band so impressed
a rep from Bluebird Records who had stopped by San Antonio to hear them
that he decided to record them immediately; "Oh! Swing It" was released
in October 1936.
After traveling around Texas, Revard moved the
band north to play at KOAM in Pittsburgh, but the pay was low, the
weather was cold, and the businessman behind the deal eventually went
bust. Adolph Hofner left first to start his own band in Texas. By
October 1938, Revard returned as well, but by 1939 he had had enough of
the traveling musician's life and quit at 30. After completing his
recording contract in 1940, he become a San Antonio policeman. After
the war, Revard performed locally, but never made another serious
attempt to record.
~ Ron DePasquale

1904 Charles "Gabe" Ward
Clarinet/Saxophone/Fife/Leader
b. Knightstown, IN, USA,
d. Jan. 14, 1992.
ne: Charles Otto "Gabe" Ward.
Member/Leader: "Hoosier Hot Shots".
The
other 'Hotshots' were "Hezzie" Triesch (Whistle, Washboard, Drums, Alto
Sax, n»: Paul Trietsch, b. Arcadia, Indiana, d. April 27, 1980), "Rudy"
Triesch (Banjo, Tenor Guitar, Bass Sax n»: Kenneth Trietsch, b.
Arcadia, Indiana, d. Sept. 17, 1987), Frank Kettering (Banjo, Guitar,
Flute, Piccolo, Bass Fiddle, Piano, n»: Frank Delaney Kettering, b.
Monmouth, Illinois, d. June 1973), and other members included Nathan
Harrison, and Keith Milheim.

Notable Events
on this date include:

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1956.
Tommy Dorsey died at age 51.
His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.

1958.
Myron "Tiny" Bradshaw, vocals
died in Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Age: 53

1986.
Scatman Crothers
piano/guitar/drums
died in Van Nuys, CA, USA.
Age: 76

Songs Recorded/Released
on this date include:

1924 "Terrible Blues"
(Clarence Williams )
- Red Onion Jazz Babies

1926 "Do, Do, Do"
(George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
- Annette Hanshaw

1926 "You Know, I Know Ev'rything Made For Love
(Johnson / Tobias / Sherman)
- Annette Hanshaw

1926 "Brown Sugar"
(Harry Barris)
- Arkansas Travelers

1926 "Take The Sun, Hang Out The Moon"
(Lewis / Young / Woods)
- Arkansas Travelers

1926 "If You See Sally"
(Donaldson / Kahn / Egan)
- Ted Lewis and his Band

1926 "Wistful And Blue"
(Davidson / Etting
- Ted Lewis and his Band
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/le...dblue.ram

1926 "Lonesome, Weary Blues"
(Richard M. Jones - )
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill

1926 "Lovesick Blues"
(Richard M. Jones /Irving Mills )
- Bertha "Chippie" Hill

1928 "Wild Oat Joe"
(From - "The New" American), (Kahn)
- Miff Mole and his (Little) Molers

1928 "You're The Cream In My Coffee"
(From The Musical "Hold Everything")
(Buddy De Sylva / Lew Brown / Ray Henderson)
- Miff Mole and his (Little) Molers
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/mo...offee.ram

1929 "After You've Gone"
(Henry Creamer / J. Turner Layton)
- Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/Songs/Lo...one-c.ram

1930 "Blue Again"
(Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh)
- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/el...again.ram

1930 "What Good Am I Without You"
(Duke Ellington )
- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/el...tyou1.ram

1930 "When A Black Man's Blue"
(Duke Ellington )
- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/el...blue1.ram

1930 "You're Driving Me Crazy!"
(What Did I Do?) (Walter Donaldson)
- Lee Morse and her Bluegrass Boys
LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/mo...ingme.ram

1934 "What's That Thing She's Shaking"
Papa Charlie Jackson

1934 "You Put It In, I'll Take It Out"
(Charlie Jackson)
- Papa Charlie Jackson

LYRICS:

Lovesick Blues
~Irving Mills and Cliff Friend

I got a feelin' called the blues,
Since my baby said good-bye
Lawd I don't know what l'll do
All I do is sit and sigh
That last long day she said goodbye
Well Lawd, I thought I would cry
She'd do me, she'd do you,
She's got that kind of lovin'
Lawd, I love to hear her
When she calls me sweet daddy

Such a beautiful dream
I hate to think it's all over
I lost my heart it seems
I've grown so used to you somehow
But I'm nobody's sugar daddy now
And I'm lonesome, I got the lovesick blues

I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful gal
That's whats the matter with me
I'm in love, I'm in love with a beautiful gal
But she don't care about me

Lawd I tried and tried to keep her satisfied
But she just wouldn't stay
So now that she is leavin'
This is all I say...

©1922 Mills Music, Inc (ASCAP)


"You're Driving Me Crazy!"
~(W. Donaldson)

You, you're driving me crazy!
What did I do? What did I do?
My tears for you make everything hazy, clouding the skies of blue
How true, were the friends who were near me to cheer me
Believe, me they knew, but you
Were the kind who would hurt me, desert me
When I needed you
Yes you, you're driving me crazy!
What did I do to you?




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