BIRTHDAYS



GENE AUTREY


1907 Gene Autry
composer/vocals/actor
b. Tioga Springs, TX, USA
d. Oct. 2, 1998, Los Angeles (Studio City), CA, USA
né: Orvon Gene Autry.

While still a youngster, his family moved to a ranch in Oklahoma where Gene learned to play the guitar and to sing. He was educated at Ravia (Oklahoma) High School, after which he first worked as a telegrapher for the Frisco Railroad. Autry made his first recording in 1929. It was Cowboy-humorist Will Rogers who, during a chance encounter, encouraged Autry to pursue his dream of singing professionally, During the next several years, he performed as 'Oklahoma's Yodeling Cowboy' on a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio program. After a stint as star of the 'National Barn Dance' radio show, emanating from Chicago, IL, he signed a recording contract with the Sears-Roebuck department store to record for their own label. The store also marketed a "Gene Autry guitar" through its famous catalog. However, it was the Hollywood studios that brought Autry lasting fame making him became America's favorite singing cowboy. His first movie, 'In Old Santa Fe', was followed by nearly 100 other films. In World War he was a flight officer for the United States Army Air Force. After the war, he became a successful business man when he purchased California Angels baseball team. He joined ASCAP in 1939, and his compositions include: "Here Comes Santa Claus"; "Be Honest With Me"; "Tears on My Pillow"; "Dixie Cannonball"; "Good Old-Fashioned Hoedown"; "You're the Only Star in My Blue Heaven"; and "I Wish I Had Never Met Sunshine". He was perhaps the greatest singing cowboy of all time. He died at the age of 91. YEE HAW!!

MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/gene-autry/a...iography.htmlWEB-SITE:
www.autry.com/BIO:
www.cowboypal.com/genehp.htmlBIO:
www.accomics.com/accomicsw.../autry.htm



WILLIAM BOYD aka HOP-ALONG-CASSIDY
1910 Bill Boyd, (Texas Swing) Leader/guitar
b. Fannin County, TX, USA. : )
AKA HOP ALONG CASSIDY!!
MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/bill-boyd/ar...iography.htmlMORE:
www.surfnetinc.com/chuck/hoppy.htm



JERRY LEE LEWIS








Jerry Lees very first preformance on tv on the Steve Allen show.

1935 Jerry Lee Lewis, R&R vocals/piano
b. Ferriday, LA, USA
(1958 single "Great Balls Of Fire" charted US and UK No.1; 1957 multi million sellers "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential".
MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/jerry-lee-le...iography.html
Jerry Lee Lewis
www.history-of-rock.com/lewis.htm
Jerry Lee Lewis Online:
www.jerryleelewis.de/
Jerry Lee Lewis, Rockabilly history, tour trip through early American music history.
www.rockabillyhall.com/JLL.html
www.jllewis.com/
Jerry Lee Lewis – Wikipedia BIO:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis


1916 Robert "Bob" Loewy
guitar/vocals/arranger
b. Chicago, IL, USA
d. Oct. 2, 2003, Evanston, IN, USA
It is not often recalled, but Loewy, led his own group, "The Three Talents". He was a fine arranger who wrote for both the Al Morgan group (Al Morgan, Bass, b. Aug 19, 1908, New Orleans, LA, USA, d. April 14, 1974, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Age: 65 (one of the great early New Orleans Jazzmen), and for The Fletcher Henderson Band. Bob Loewy's daughter is the wonderful singer Judy Roberts (b. Oct. 3, 1950ish), and the two of them can be heard playing together on one of Judy's releases "My Heart Belongs To Daddy", -with (Judy Roberts (Piano and Vocals), Bob Loewy (Guitar and Vocals), Richie Cole (Alto Sax), bassist Jim Cox (b. January 28, 1955ish), and drummer Phil Gratteau (b. April 1, 1955-ish). Judy currently (2005) also works with saxophonist Greg Fishman (b. January 6, 1967).


1921 Loonis Reeves McGlohon, pianist/songwriter
b. Ayden, NC, USA
d. Jan. 26, 2002, Charlotte, NC, USA
(Age: 80, after an 8 year battle with Lymphoma)
Perhaps best recalled for co-hosting, with songwriter Alec Wilder, the radio program "American Popular Song". Some of the stars with whom he worked include Marlene VerPlanck, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Eileen Farrell, and Judy Garland. He co-composed such songs as "Blackberry Winter" and "Be A Child"


1897 Cecil Norman, piano
b. USA. d. Dec. 31, 1988
(some sources claim d. 1989).
This fine pianist had actually led a band in Connecticut, USA, in 1928, but was to find his greatest fame working in Great Britain. In 1930, Ray Noble took over leadership of 'The New Mayfair Orchestra' (the HMV studios a "house" orchestra), when Carroll Gibbons, accepted a contract from MGM which took him to America (land of his birth) In 1933, Cecil Norman replaced pianist Harry Jacobson in the band. CAUTION: Do not confuse with the American Black (gospel) vocalist Cecil Norman, who has sung with "Arnold Moore and Aged In Harmony" (1977)


1917 Dennis Sandole
guitar/composer
b. Philadelphia, PA, USA. d. 2000.
Self Taught. Worked with Ray McKinley, T.Dorsey, Ch. Barnet, Boyd Raeburn and Gene Krupa -all during the 1940s. Very influential in the Philadelphia PA area, where he also taught a great many guitarists who went onto some fame.
MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/dennis-sando...iography.html


1934 "Chick" Willis, guitar/vocals
b. Cabiness, GA, USA
Self-taught on guitar, - by his teens had already started playing for a living at the 'Old Royal Peacock Club' in Atlanta, GA, USA.. He backed and played on bills with such talent as Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and Big Joe Turner.
MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/chick-willis...iography.html


Notable Events on this date include:


SEGER ELLIS
1995. Seger Ellis, piano/leader, died in Houston, TX, USA. Age: 91

1962. "Bad" Ann Cook, vocals, died in New Orleans, LA, USA. Age: 59

1969. Clarence Hall, sax, died in New Orleans, LA, USA. Age: 66. Worked with "Fats" Domino

1974. Billie Pierce, piano, died in New Orleans, LA, USA. Age: 67

1988. Horace Henderson, piano, died in Denver, CO, USA. Age: 83

1988. Barney Josephson, Club owner (The Cookery), died in New York, NY, USA. Age: 86


Notable Events on this date include:

1911 Oh You Beautiful Doll, -Billy Murray voc. tune: Ayer

1911 Don't Blame Me for Loving You, - Peerless Quartet. tune: Harris

1913 How Long Have You Been Married?, -Billy Murray voc. tune: Cormack

1916 Sweet and Low, -Lyric Quartet. tune: Barnby

1917 Goodbye Broadway, Hello France, -Deiro Pietro's band.
1917 We're Going Over medley, -Deiro Pietro (accordion).

1921 My Sunny Tennesee, -Benson Orch. of Chicago. tune: bert kalmar/harry and herman ruby

1924 Charleston Charlie, -Marion Harris voc. tune: austin-o'hara

1924 Some Other Day, Some Other Girl, -Benson orch. of Chicago.

1925 Don't Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream, -H Lanin's Ben Franklin Hotel Orch. tune: l.gilbert-a.baer-m.wayne

1925 Why Are You Blue?, -Nick Lucas voc. Brown Eyes, tune: Bryan-Meyer

1925 Marble Halls, -Francis Craig and his orch.

1926 Stringing The Blues, -Venuti and Lang.

1926 Jersey Walk, -Ethel Waters voc. tune: Creamer; Dowling; Hanley

1929 Wave The Flag of Old Chicago, -Dan Russo's Oriole Orch.

1929 Please Come Back to Me (v.s.l.), -Regent Club orch (Haring).


1930 Why Have You Forgotten Waikiki? (v.j.c.), - Tom Clines and his Music.
1930 What's the use of Living Without Love?, -Tom Clines and his Music.

1930 Red River Valley, -Carter's orch.
1930 When The Bloom Is On The Sage, - Carter's orch.

1932 Along Came Love, -Don Bestor and his Orch.

1932 I've Got A Right to Sing The Blues, -Ethel Merman voc.
1932 How Deep In The Ocean, -Ethel Merman voc.

1932 Long About Sundown, -Don Bestor and his Orch.

1932 I'll follow you, -Ethel Merman voc.

1936 Steel Guitar Rag, - Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys.
1936 Trouble in mind, -Bob Wills and Texas Playboys tune: Richard M. Jones

1937 I See Your Face Before Me, -Guy Lombardo Royal Canadians

1937 Sweet Georgia Brown, -Eddie South and his Orch. (Rec'd Paris, FR)

1938 You Look Good To Me, -Jan Garber and his Orch.

1939 Iroquois, -Ray noble and his Orch.
1939 Comanche War Dance, -Ray noble and his Orch.

1939 Land Of My Fathers, -Paul Robeson voc. (rec'd London, UK)

1940 The Bad Humor Man, -Kay Kyser and his Orch.
1941 Popocatepetl, -Kay Kyser and his Orch.
1941 Humpty Dumpty Heart, -Kay Kyser and his orch.

1941 I Wish I Had a Sweetheart, -Leo Reisman and his orch.

1947 Golden Cross, -Duke Ellington's orch,
1947 Wildest Gal in Town, -Duke Ellington with Woody Herman.
1947 Put Yourself in My Place Baby , -Duke Ellington's orch

1937 A Fine Romance, - Billie Holiday and Her Orch.
1937 Let's Call a Heart a Heart, - Billie Holiday and Her Orch.

BIRTHDAYS



1906 'Blind Arvella' Gray, guitar
b. Somerville, TX, USA
né: Walter Dixon
Biography
by Jason Ankeny
Chicago bluesman Blind Arvella Gray was born Walter Dixon in Somerville, TX, on January 28, 1906. A world-class raconteur, he vividly embellished the details of his life and never told a particular story the same way twice, meaning the exact circumstance of his formative years are impossible to document with any certainty. But by most accounts Gray began as a stick-up man, reportedly driving a getaway car for Detroit's infamous Purple Gang; during a botched bank robbery attempt -- possibly in Peoria, IL -- he was shot, losing his sight and two of the fingers on his left hand in the process. (During some retellings, the shooter was instead a jealous husband.) Eventually Gray landed in Chicago and picked up the guitar, inspired by the blues and gospel songs he learned in the cotton fields and chain gangs of the rural South. He acquired a National steel guitar but, bereft of two fingers on his fret hand, could play only slide. Sometime around 1946 Gray became a fixture of the legendary Maxwell Street open-air market, standing out from rival bluesmen by virtue of a repertoire comprised of little-known field hollers and work songs; he sometimes performed alongside his sister, who typically appeared under the name Granny Clara Jenkinsbey. Gray also traveled extensively outside of Chicago, regularly playing at the annual Kentucky Derby and making frequent trips to the St. Louis area, where he performed up and down the Mississippi River. The riverboats were another fertile source for Gray's repertoire. There he learned new lyrics to his signature tune, the traditional "John Henry," that "were not in the Library of Congress until he put them there," according to Delmark Records founder Bob Koester. Other staples of the Gray songbook included the country traditional "More Pretty Girls Than One" and the gospel standard "Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There." According to legend, he was even the source of Bob Dylan's 1961 recording "He Was a Friend of Mine." Gray himself first appeared on record on the 1960 compilation Live from Maxwell Street, in 1965 self-releasing three rare singles: "Freedom Riders," "You Are My Dear," and "John Henry." He also appeared in the 1964 documentary And This Is Free. In 1972, a teenaged suburbanite and budding blues devotee named Cary Baker fell under Gray's sway and convinced Dave Wylie, owner of the tiny Wilmette-based label Birch Records, to finance an LP. The Singing Drifter, Gray's lone album, appeared in 1973 in an edition of just 1,000 that quickly sold out but was not repressed. Despite reaching blues fans in Europe and Japan -- some of whom traveled to Chicago just to meet and photograph Gray during his regular Maxwell Street gigs -- The Singing Drifter did little to raise his visibility at home. He remained a Maxwell Street fixture long after most of his peers and rivals abandoned the bazaar, busking there each and every Sunday morning. By 1980 it seemed Gray's career was on the upturn: he and Baker discussed cutting a second LP, and he was in talks with organizers of the University of Chicago Folk Festival to appear in a showcase spotlighting performers who played the inaugural festival 20 years earlier. But before either project could reach fruition, Gray died on September 7, 1980; given his slim body of recorded music and limited fame outside the Midwest, over the years to follow he essentially slipped through the cracks of Chicago's rich blues history. But in 2004 Baker -- now a successful music industry PR exec who operated his own firm, Conqueroo -- tracked down Wylie to inquire about reissuing The Singing Drifter on his fledgling Conjuroo label; an expanded CD edition of the album appeared the following summer, marking its first ever wide release.


1918 Bob Hilliard, lyricist
d. Feb 1, 1971
Biography
by Joslyn Layne
American pop lyricist Bob Hilliard wrote hits from the mid-'40s through the early '60s. Born in N.Y.C. in 1918, Hilliard was 28 years old when he wrote his first successful song, "The Coffe Song." The following year, he penned several more and wrote for the Broadway show Angel in the Wings. Other shows featuring Hilliard's songs were Michael Todd's Peep Show (1950) and Hazel Flagg (1953). He also had musical numbers in Disney's 1952 animated feature Alice in Wonderland -- "I'm Late," "Very Good Advice," and "All in the Golden Afternoon" -- and the 1954 film Living It Up, including "Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket," and "That's What I Like." Other popular songs by Hilliard include "Civilization" (1947), "Careless Hands" (1948), "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" (1949 song written for Bing Crosby), "Be My Life's Companion" (1951 song written for the Mills Brothers), "Bouquet of Roses" (1952), and "Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York" (1953). In 1960, Hilliard shifted styles and focused on composing soft rock hits like "My Little Corner of the World," and the Ruby & the Romantics hit "Our Day Will Come." Over the years, Hilliard collaborated with composers David Mann, Carl Sigman, Jule Styne, Sammy Fain, and more.
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1892 Luke Jordan, guitar
b. Appomattox City, VA, USA.
Biography
by Steve Leggett
One of the most intriguing of the Piedmont blues players, Luke Jordan was born January 28, 1892, in Bluefield, WV. As a teenager he relocated to Lynchburg, VA, which was to remain his home base the rest of his life. Jordan recorded 12 tracks for Victor Records at two sessions in 1927 and 1929, ten of which have survived on 78s, including his classic versions of "Church Bell Blues," "Pick Poor Robin Clean," and "Cocaine Blues." Exhibiting a clean, precise guitar style, Jordan also possessed an elegant-sounding tenor voice that conveyed a sort of wry, good-natured feel, and his material, drawn from a repertoire of ballads, gambling tunes, ragtime, and minstrel tunes, perfectly defines the Piedmont blues. He was immensely influential on the blues players in his region, and he truly deserves to be better known outside the blues community. He died on June 25, 1952.



1885 Louis "Big Eye" Delisle Nelson, Clarinet
b. New Orleans, LA, USA
d. 1949. (Some sources show b. 1880)
Biography
by Scott Yanow
One of the early pioneers of jazz, Big Eye Louis Nelson (no relation to trombonist Louis Nelson, although they sometimes played together) was an early inspiration for Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone and was for a period the teacher of Sidney Bechet. Born Louis Nelson DeLisle -- he eventually dropped his last name -- he played accordion, guitar, banjo, violin and bass early on; he was mostly self-taught on clarinet other than some lessons from Lorenzo Tio Sr. and Luis Tio in 1904.
One of the very first jazz clarinetists (as opposed to ones who merely played preplanned counter-melodies or stuck to reading music), Nelson performed with the who's who of early jazz, including Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton and Oscar Celestin. Nelson spent his early life in New Orleans, leaving for Chicago in 1916 to join Freddie Keppard and the Original Creole Orchestra but returning two years later. He was with many bands including the Imperial Orchestra, the Golden Rule Orchestra, the Imperial Band, the Superior Orchestra and the Eagle Band. Nelson worked with John Robichaux's Orchestra (1918-24) and Sidney Desvigne; from 1939-49 he led his own group at Luthjen's.
Because he did not leave the South, Nelson did not record much. Nelson's career reached back to the beginnings of jazz but fortunately he was documented a bit in 1949, just a short time before his death. He is on the erratic 1940 Kid Rena sessions and was captured in 1949: twice in the studios for American Music (once under the leadership of Wooden Joe Nicholas) and on a live date at Luthjen's that year (which was not released until 1992). All of the 1949 sessions (except a few alternate takes) are included on the American Music CD Big Eye Louis Nelson DeLisle. Fortunately he is in pretty good form on these historic performances that are his recorded legacy.


1899 Zilner Randolph, Trumpet/piano/arranger/composer
b. Dermott, AR, USA
d. Feb. 2, 1994
Randolph studied music at Biddle University in North Carolina, the Kreuger Conservatory in St. Louis, MO, and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee. He subsequently found work in some Milwaukee-based territory bands, including four years with Bernie Young. He next relocated to Chicago, IL, and - interestingly - led a number of orchestras that were fronted by other men. During March 1931 to March 1932, and parts of 1933 and 1935, his band was at times fronted by Louis Armstrong. Randolph may be heard playing trumpet in the band backing Armstrong on some of those '31-'32 recordings. In 1935, Randolph's composition "Old Man Mose" became famous when Armstrong recorded it. (The tune again became popular in the 1960s when singer Teresa Brewer had a huge hit with the song, --and the royalties were greatly appreciated by Zilner.) In 1934, Zilner also played with Carroll Dickerson and Dave Peyton, and led From 1935 - 1937. Zilneer led his "WPA Concert and Swing band", in Chicago, this time with Huey Long serving as guitarist, assistant arranger, and conductor. (WPA, Works Projects Administration, a U. S. A. governmental agency helping men to find employment during the great economic depression of the 1930s.) He was also contributing arrangements to many of the popular big bands including the Earl Hines, Woody Herman, Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington orchestra. In the 1940s, he led his own quartet. From the later 1940's on, Randolph worked primarily as a teacher although in 1951 he did record on piano. Zilner Randolph never recorded as a leader. He lived to be 95, -one of the last of the 1930s Louis Armstrong alumni. His involvement with Louis Armstrong during that 1930s brief period has insured him a place in the history of Jazz.


1907 Bobby Sands, Tenor Saxophone
b. New York, NY, USA
Biography
by Eugene Chadbourne
An outfit known as the Strand Roof Orchestra under the direction of bandleader Billy Fowler has been identified by swinging archaeologists as the earliest professional affiliation of Bobby Sands, a tenor and baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn early in the 20th century. Fowler's group was active in 1927, but it is Sands' performances in the following decade that are flesh around the bone of this classic jazz performer's discography. Sands was more than just a grain in the operation of classy pianist and bandleader Claude Hopkins, sharing star soloing duties with the leader as well as clarinetist Edmond Hall in his early years.
Vintage jazz reissue collections such as Claude Hopkins: 1934-1935 feature a program of both high-spirited novelty songs and so-called "serious" jazz repertoire canons. "I Can't Dance, I've Got Ants in My Pants" and "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" were the type of recordings Hopkins made in order to stay attractive to label producers throughout the '30s; a superb arrangement of Jelly Roll Morton's "King Porter Stomp" joins with Hopkins' own "Minor Mania" in the short list of highlights for traces of Sands in both section and solo capacity. The saxophonist also worked with bandleader Charlie Skeets in the late '20s. Sands retired from music in the '40s and became a printer.



1916 Charles Henry "Baby" Tate, Blues singer/guitarist
b. Elberton, GA, USA
d. August 17, 1972, Columbia, SC, USA
When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Greenville, SC, where the young Tate became friends with Bluesman "Blind Boy" Fuller, who taught him guitar and Blues singing. Later, Tate partnered with Pink Anderson for some years. In 1962, he recorded an album of traditional Blues. 10 years later, he again recorded, this time with a harmonica player named "Peg Leg" Sam.
facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/.../tate.html


Notable Events occuring this date include:


1950.
"Kansas" Joe McCoy, guitar, died in Chicago, IL, USA.
Age: 44. Worked with 'Memphis Minnie'

1974.
Ed Allen, trumpet, died in New York, NY, USA. Age: 76

1981.
Ray "Remo" Biondi, guitar/violin, died in Chicago, IL, USA.
Age: 75


1983.
"Sweet" Emma Barrett, piano, died in New Orleans, LA, USA.
Age: 85

1984.
Al Dexter, C&W vocals, died (heart attack) in Lewisville, TX, USA.
Age 78: (Best recalled release: "Pistol Packin' Mama")

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINY WINTERS!

BIRTHDAYS

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1924 Joe Albany, Piano, b. Atlantic City, NJ, USA. d. Jan. 12, 1988
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1904 Will Batts, (Blues and Jug Band style) violin, b. Michigan, MS, USA, d. April 16, 1954. Recorded for the Banner, Melotone, and Vocalion labels. The lives of Will Batts, Dan Sane (b. Michigan, MI, USA. d. Feb. 18, 1956, Memphis, TN, USA, -see below), Jack Kelly (b. ca. 1905, Mississippi, USA, d. ca. 1960, Memphis, TN, USA), and Frank Stokes (b. Jan. 1, 1888, Whitehaven (near Memphis), TN, USA, d. Sept. 12, 1955, Memphis, TN, USA -Stroke) are intertwined. Fiddler Will Batts was the primary instrumentalist in (singer-guitarist) Jack Kelly's 'South Memphis Jug Band'.
Biography
by Jason Ankeny

Fiddler Will Batts was the primary instrumentalist in Jack Kelly's South Memphis Jug Band, a popular string band whose music owed a heavy debt to the blues as well as minstrel songs, vaudeville numbers, reels and rags. Born January 24, 1904 in Michigan, Mississippi, Batts was working as a farm hand when he decided to pursue a career in music full-time; he sooned joined Kelly's band, a fixture of the Beale Street area, and in 1933 they made their first recordings, followed in 1939 by a second and final session. Batts also backed a variety of other Memphis performers, including minstrel singer Frank Stokes; a 1952 session with harpist Big Walter Horton was his last known recording date -- he died on April 16, 1954.

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1920 Jimmy Forrest, Tenor Saxophone, b. St. Louis, MO, USA. d. August 26, 1980, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. né: James Robert Forrest, Jr.
Biography
by Scott Yanow

A fine all-round tenor player, Jimmy Forrest is best-known for recording "Night Train," a song that he "borrowed" from the last part of Duke Ellington's "Happy Go Lucky Local." While in high school in St. Louis, Forrest worked with pianist Eddie Johnson, the legendary Fate Marable, and the Jeter-Pillars Orchestra. In 1938, he went on the road with Don Albert and then was with Jay McShann's Orchestra (1940-1942). In New York, Forrest played with Andy Kirk (1942-1948) and Duke Ellington (1949) before returning to St. Louis. After recording "Night Train," Forrest became a popular attraction and recorded a series of jazz-oriented R&B singles. Among his most important later associations were with Harry "Sweets" Edison (1958-1963), Count Basie's Orchestra (1972-1977), and Al Grey, with whom he co-led a quintet until his death. Forrest recorded for United (reissued by Delmark), Prestige/New Jazz (1960-1962), and Palo Alto (1978).

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1923 'Guitar Shorty', guitar, b. Belhaven, NC, USA, d. May 26, 1976, USA. né: John Henry Fortescue. CAUTION: Do Not Confuse with another 'Guitar Shorty' whose real name is David William Kearney (b. Sept. 8, 1939, Houston, TX, USA. -raised in Kissimee, FL, USA), and who is currently (2006) still very active. (Exercise caution because many websites confuse BOTH their Year of birth, and their place of birth.)

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1911 Les Houck, vocalist, b. Cisna Park, IL, USA, d. Sept. 4, 1992, Roseburg, OR, USA. né: Lester Franklin Houck. Les is perhaps best remembered for his days as a member of the Biltmore Trio vocal group (the other two were Don Dorsey and Ned Hewitt). Named for one of the venues where they appeared, Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, they sang with the Earl Burtnett Band (with whom they also recorded) and with the Ted Fio Rito orchestra too. Les married another entertainer (vocals and banjo), Dottie, whom he met when they were both appearing at Denver's Elitch's Gardens. (Later, Dottie would take a position at Paramount Pictures where she was a head seamstress working under famed costume designer Edith Head.) When the Big Band era closed, the couple settled in Burbank, CA, USA, where Les found work with the Prudential Insurance Company. He remained with Prudential until his retirement 30 years later, after which be briefly worked with another insurance firm (Security Life) and even sold cars for awhile. Very sadly, the couple divorced, although Dottie remained in touch with Les and also with Don Dorsey and his wife. Les did re-marry and continued to play the organ and write music in his spare time. (The Big Bands Database Plus thanks Ms. Pam Houch Shriver for this information on her father, Les Houck.)

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***1902 James Kok, leader/Violin, b. Czernowitz, Bukovina. d: Oct. 18, 1976, Berlin, Germany. né: James Arthur Kok.

Between 1929 and 1932 Rumanian James Kok founded one of the hottest big bands in Germany. The orchestra consisted mainly of German musicians (e.g. Fritz Schulze: piano, Erhard Bauschke:clarinet, Piano, Scat-vocal and Kurt Wege: Saxophon, Clarinet). Bandleader Kok attracted negative attention from the "Reichsmusikkammer" (Reichs-music-board) because of his outspoken public support of the British Jack Hylton Orchestra, which was rather unpopular with the Nazis. This incident led to the discovery of his "half-Jewish" origin and resulted in his work ban. Kok escaped to England, survived the war and afterwards lived in Switzerland. Eberhardt Bauschke continued his work leading the "Aryanized" band from summer 1935 on.
***SOME SOURCES GIVE JAN. 26TH as his DATE of BIRTH.
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1917 Avery Parrish, Piano, b. Birmingham, Al, USA, d. Dec. 10, 1959, New York, NY. Besides his great piano playing, he will always be recalled as the composer of "After Hours".
Biography
by Scott Yanow

Avery Parrish will always be most famous for his 1940 recording of "After Hours" with Erskine Hawkins' Orchestra but his playing career was actually tragically brief. Parris attended Alabama State Teachers College where he became a member of the 'Bama Street Collegians in 1934, which in time became the Erskine Hawkins Big Band. Parrish was with Hawkins through the glory years, staying until 1941 and appearing on all of the band's early recordings. His "After Hours," a classic blues solo, would become a standard in future years. Parrish left Hawkins in 1941 to work in California but a year later he was in a bar fight, suffered partial paralysis and his playing career was over; he was only 24. Avery Parrish, who never recorded under his own name, spent the rest of his life working day jobs and when he was 42 he died mysteriously.

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***1904 Dan Sane, guitar/vocals, b. Michigan, MI, USA. d. Feb. 18, 1956, Memphis, TN, USA. The lives of Bluesmen Dan Sane, Will Batts (b. Jan. 24, 1904, Memphis, TN, USA - see above entry), Jack Kelly (b. ca. 1905, Mississippi, USA, d. ca. 1960, Memphis, TN, USA), and Frank Stokes (b. Jan. 1, 1888, Whitehaven (near Memphis), TN, USA, d. Sept. 12, 1955, Memphis, TN, USA (Stroke) are intertwined. (Sane and Batts have the same birthdate.) Dan Sane may be best known for his long collaboration with guitarist Frank Stokes. During the 1920s, Sane relocated to Memphis where he played in the string band led by violinist Will Batts, and where he first began playing with Frank Stokes. A little later, the two guitarists again worked together, this time in Jack Kelly's Memphis Jug Band. In 1927, the duo made their own first recordings for the Paramount label. In 1928, they moved to Victor but returned to Paramount the following year. Their 1929 Paramount sides were their last as a team, although Sane continued performing with Frank Stokes until 1952 when Stokes retired.
Biography
by Jason Ankeny

Best known for his work in collaboration with guitar partner Frank Stokes, Dan Sane was born in Michigan, Mississippi on January 24, 1904. Upon relocating to Memphis during the 1920s, he played in the string band led by violinist Will Batts; there Sane first began playing with Stokes, and the two guitarists also worked together in Jack Kelly's jug band. When the duo made their first recordings for the Paramount label in 1927, they had emerged among the most complementary duos in all of the blues, with Sane's flatpicking ideally embellished by Stokes' fluid rhythms. They moved to Victor in 1928, but by the following year were back on Paramount; these 1929 sides were their last together, although Sane continued performing with Stokes up until the latter's 1952 retirement. Sane died in Memphis on February 18, 1956.
***SOME SOURCES GIVE SANE’S BIRTHDATE AS SEPT. 22, 1896.

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1907 Isadore "Tuts" Washington, Pianist, b: New Orleans, LA, USA, d. August 5, 1984, New Orleans, LA, USA (while on stage at the New Orleans World's Fair). ("Tuts" was also widely known as "Papa Yellow"). 'Tuts' was 76 years old when his first solo recording was released. He began playing piano at age ten and worked with a number of famed New Orleans bandsmen -- Kid Rena, Papa Celestin, Kid Punch Miller -- over the course of his long career. As a child, he followed Brass Bands on the streets of New Orleans, memorizing the tunes and working out his own versions at home. Self-taught at first but at age 18 started taking lessons. His teacher introduced him to "Red" Caillou, whose hands he described as "like lightning." Along with the standard tunes, Tuts also had a repertoire of bawdy blues songs.
Biography
by Jason Ankeny

A longtime staple of the New Orleans blues and boogie-woogie community, pianist Isidore "Tuts" Washington was a primary influence on later Crescent City players spanning from Professor Longhair to Allen Toussaint to Fats Domino. Born January 24, 1907, he began teaching himself piano at the age of ten; inspired by the itinerant New Orleans musician Joseph Louis "Red" Cayou, Washington amassed a vast repertoire of songs by memorizing performances by area brass bands, then quickly returning home to develop his own renditions. Recognized as something of a prodigy, Washington -- also known as "Papa Yellow" -- was already the superior of most local barrelhouse pianists by his teen years, and he regularly sat in with prominent Dixieland and society bands; his style brought together an eclectic mix of ragtime, jazz and blues textures, and despite a general reliance on instrumentals, he was also known to pull the occasionally bawdy vocal number out of his bag of tricks.

Washington achieved his greatest success in the company of singer/guitarist Smiley Lewis, with whom he joined forces during the late 1940s; prior to the 1952 breakup, they cut for Imperial some of the landmark New Orleans R&B sides of the period, among them "Tee-Nah-Nah," "The Bells Are Ringing" and "Dirty People." However, for the most part, Washington considered recording of little consequence, content instead in his standing as the consensus choice as the French Quarter's champion pianist; as a result, he regularly rejected offers to cut solo sides, and in 1950 set out to conquer new territories, relocating to St. Louis to join the Tab Smith Orchestra. He was back in New Orleans by the end of the decade, signing on with the Clyde Kerr Orchestra and adding a new pop-oriented dimension to his playing for the sake of tourists. Finally, in 1983 -- at the age of 76 -- Washington consented to his first solo recordings, cutting New Orleans Piano Professor for Rounder; he died on August 5, 1984 during a performance at the New Orleans World's Fair. mino, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Dr. John, and Allen Toussaint.

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1909 "Tiny" Winters, Bass, b. London, England, d. Feb. 7, 1996. né: Frederick Gittens.
Biography
by Chris Kelsey

A well-known and respected figure on the British jazz scene for over six decades, Winters began playing professionally in the '30s with such leaders as Ray Fox, Bert Ambrose, Lew Stone, and Ray Noble. He recorded with Coleman Hawkins in 1934 and as a leader in 1936. From 1948-55 he played a regular gig at the Hatchett's Club in London. He also worked freelance as a session player and in theatrical orchestras. Beginning in the early '80s, Winters played with the British cornetist Digby Fairweather in the Kettner's Five. In 1989 Winters recorded with the octogenarian saxophonist Benny Waters on the latter's final European recording session. Winters played on Fairweather's recorded tribute to trumpeter/singer Nat Gonella, With Nat in Mind, in 1994.

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NOTABLE EVENTS ON THIS DAY
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1936.
Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "Stompin' at the Savoy," in a session at the Congress Hotel in Chicago. It is now a "standard" that has been recorded by hundreds of various artists.

1991.
Shot Jackson, C&W Steel Guitarist, died. Member Hall of Fame. Age: 70

1992.
Ken Darby, songwriter, died. Perhaps his best known tune is "Love Me Tender"


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Songs Recorded/Released this date include:
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1922 “Cruel Daddy Blues”, (Tim Brymn) - Leona Williams and her Dixie Band

1924 “If You'll Come Back”, (Sam Erlich / J. Turner Layton) - The Virginians

1925 “Then I'll Be Happy”, University Six

1925 “Why Should I Believe In You?”, Billy Lustig and The Scranton Sirens Orchestra

1925 “Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie”, - The California Ramblers

1927 “Wild Cat”, (Eddie Lang / Joe Venuti) - Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang

1928 “Charleston Is The Best Dance After All”, (Charlie Johnson / Arthur Porter) - Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra

1928 “Rhapsody in Blue”, Bert Firman's Dance Orchestra,
Carroll Gibbons, piano

1928 “The Yale Blues”, (Collie Knox / Vivian Ellis) - Waring's Pennsylvanians

1928 “My Heart Stood Still”, (Rogers / Hart) - Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

1929 “Let's Sit And Talk About You”, (Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh) - Ben Pollack and His Park Central Orchestra

1930 “Dinah”, (Sam M. Lewis / Joe Young / Harry Akst) - Ted Lewis and his Band

1936 "Goody, Goody", - Benny Goodman Orch.

1941 You Walk By, - Eddy Duchin Orch.

1941 Perfidia (Tonight), - Xavier Cugat Orch.

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BIRTHDAYS
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1920 Ray Abrams, Jazz tenor sax, b. New York, NY, USA. né: Raymond Abramson. His younger brother Lee Abramson was a jazz drummer, who became Lee Abrams.
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1917 Fred Lee Beckett, Jazz trombone, b. Nellerton, MS, USA. Beckett will most likely always be remembered for his trombone work in the Lionel Hampton Big Band prior to the Second World War. Beckett subsequently became a member of the U.S. Army, and sadly contracted tuberculosis while enlisted, and died a few years later.
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1908 Jerry Blake, Clarinet, b. Gary, IN, USA. d. Dec. 31, 1961
Biography
by Scott Yanow
A fine journeyman player, Jerry Blake had a solid career before healthy problems permanently forced him out of music. Blake, who went to school in Nashville, started on the violin before switching to alto and clarinet. After playing with the Sells-Fioto Circus Band in 1924, he was stranded in Chicago where he soon joined Al Wynn's group. Blake worked with Bobby Lee and Charlie Turner's Arcadians and then spent much of 1928-29 in Europe with Sam Wooding. He played with Chick Webb, Zach Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummels, Don Redman (1933-34) and then back in Europe with Willie Lewis (1934-35). Returning to the U.S., Blake gained some recognition for his work with Claude Hopkins, Fletcher Henderson (1936-38) and Cab Calloway (1938-42) where he ended up being the musical director. However after short stints with Count Basie, Earl Hines, Lionel Hampton and Don Redman during 1942-43, Jerry Blake (who never led a record date of his own) suffered a mental breakdown from which he never recovered. He spent much of the rest of his life in a mental institution.
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1915 George "Scoops" Carry, Alto Sax/Clarinet, b. Little Rock, AR, USA. d. Aug. 4, 1970
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1914 Teddy Napoleon, Piano, b. New York, NY, USA. d. July 5, 1964. Teddy Napoleon is the brother of trumpeter Phil Napoleon, and pianist Marty Napoleon. In 1944, Teddy joined Gene Krupa's band, and worked with Gene - on and off- for maybe 15 or so years. The trio (Ventura-Krupa-Napoleon) was a regular attraction at the Jazz At The Philharmonic series of concerts. In 1933, Teddy began his professional career working with the Lee Castle orchestra, and went on to work in the Johnny Messner, Bob Chester and Tommy Tompkins bands. In (ca.) 1960, he joined his older brother Phil in Florida, where Phil had taken up residence. (Teddy led his own trio there, incidentally.)
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1910 Django Reinhardt, Gypsy Guitarist, b. Liberchies, Belgium, d. May, 16, 1953. né: Jean Baptiste Reinhardt, Member of the Quintette Du Hot Club De France, a group of musicians who played Jazz as well as anyone in the world, - and were w orld famous. (Stephane Grapelli on violin; Django on guitar, Joseph and Roger Chaput on rhythm guitars, and Louis Vola on Bass Fiddle. See Stephane Grappelli below - Jan. 26) Django was the first "foreign" musician (and the Quintet of The Hot Club of France was the first "foreign" group) t o exert an influence on American jazz. Two of his left hand fingers were useless due to a 1928 fire, yet he was still able to somehow adapt and continued playing a virtuosic guitar in a style drawn from his Gypsy background. In 1946, he toured the USA with Duke Ellington.
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1911 Rev.Dan Smith, harmonica, b. Per-Due Hill, AL, USA.
Biography
by Bil Carpenter
Smith sang in church and played harmonica as a child. He didn't begin his professional career until the early '60s, when he played behind folk legends Rev. Gary Davis and Pete Seeger. However, his musical style is overwhelmingly oriented to Chicago blues.
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1911 Michel Warlop, Violin, b. Douai, France, d. March 20, 1947
Biography
by Chris Kelsey
The French violinist Warlop had a short but varied career, working with such noted pop singers as Maurice Chevalier and Germaine Sablon (1934-1935), and with such jazz greats as violinist Stephane Grappelli and guitarist Django Reinhardt (1934-1937). Warlop also worked with the group Jazz du Poste Parisien, accordionist Louis Richardet, and in a group with fellow violinists Grappelli and Eddie South (in 1937). He played in a duo with the expatriate American pianist Garland Wilson (1938), and worked with other American musicians visiting Paris, including most notably tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Warlop played in the orchestra of saxophonist Raymond Lergrand (father of composer Michel Lergrand) in the early '40s and led a string septet (1941-1943). In 1942 he conducted the Paris Symphony Orchestra in a performance of his composition "Noel du Prisonnier." Warlop died in 1947 at age 36.
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1902 Benny Waters, Tenor-soprano sax/arranger, b. Brighton, MD, USA. d. August 11, 1998. Age: 96
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Biography
by Scott Yanow
Until his death at the age of 96, Benny Waters was not only the second oldest active jazz musician (to Eubie Blake who made it to 100) but a powerful altoist who would be considered impressive if he were only 50. Waters' personal history covered virtually the entire history of recorded jazz, although he never really became a major name. He worked with Charlie Miller from 1918-1921, studied at the New England Conservatory, and became a teacher; one of his students was Harry Carney, remarkably. Waters played, arranged for, and recorded with Charlie Johnson's Paradise Ten (1925-1932), an underrated group that also for a time included Benny Carter and Jabbo Smith. Waters, who was primarily a tenor saxophonist and an occasional clarinetist during this period, was influenced to an extent by Coleman Hawkins, and he recorded with both Clarence Williams and King Oliver in the 1920s. During the next two decades, Waters played in many groups including those led by Fletcher Henderson (for a few months), Hot Lips Page, Claude Hopkins, and Jimmie Lunceford. He led his own unit during part of the 1940s, played with Roy Milton's R&B band, and in 1949 went to France with the Jimmy Archey Dixieland group. Waters settled in Paris, working steadily, although he was largely forgotten at home. By the 1980s, he was visiting the U.S. more frequently, and Waters is heard in brilliant form on a 1987 quartet set for Muse on which he plays tenor, alto, and clarinet, in addition to taking some effective vocals. A short time later he went blind and stuck exclusively to playing alto (on which he played in a jump style reminiscent of Tab Smith, that shows the occasional influence of John Coltrane). The seemingly ageless Benny Waters continued recording and performing with a remarkable amount of energy, touring with the Statesmen of Jazz in 1995 and creating some miraculous music prior to his death on August 11, 1998.
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1887 Percy Wenrich, composer, b. Joplin, MO, USA. d. Mar. 17, 1952, New York, NY, USA.
Biography
by arwulf arwulf
As a boy, Wenrich played piano in a music store on Joplin's Main Street. Surrounded by sheet music in the shop, the young man decided to write his own musical composition. At the age of seventeen he created something entitled L'Inconnu, described as a two-step in 6/8 time, then arranged for a thousand copies to be printed and sold them in person, going from door to door. In 1901 he attended classes at the Chicago Musical College, an institution presided over by Flo Ziegfeld's father. Soon he'd squandered all of his funds while hanging out with the fast crowd in poorly lit saloons and had to borrow money for a return ticket to Joplin. But Chicago continued to exercise its magnetism upon him, and within a few weeks Percy had returned to the Windy City and was manhandling pianos in the back rooms of various bars, clubs and cafes. It was during this time that he wrote “Wabash Avenue After Dark", destined to become enormously popular throughout Chicago without ever actually getting published. Percy's prelude to a subsequent career in Tin Pan Alley consisted of a large parcel of rags: “Ashy Africa--An African Rag" appeared in 1903, followed by “Peaches and Cream Rag" in 1905, then “Noodles" and “Chestnuts" in 1906. “Fun Bob", “Sweet Meats Rag", “Dixie Darlings", “Flower Girl" and “Bombay" were all eclipsed in 1907 by his first nationally successful rag, “The Smiles". 1908 was similarly productive, as Percy turned out “Memphis Rag", “Ragtime Ripples", “Crab Apples" and the highly regarded “Persian Lamb Rag". In order to pay the rent and save a little for later, Percy manufactured melodies at five dollars apiece--“junk for the ten cent store counters", he later called them--to bolster the lines of aspiring lyricists who sent their verses to Chicago's McKinley Music Company. Money resulting from this unflattering work did enable him to head east in 1908 to fill a position with the Jerome H. Remick company of New York. Joining him in this relocation was his wife, a vaudeville performer by the name of Dolly Connolly. Apparently the public was perfectly attuned to Percy's sensibilities, for 1909's “Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet" sold two million copies. He began to turn out rags and popular songs at a steady rate: “Alamo Rag" and “Silver Bell" appeared in 1910, “Ragtime Chimes", “Red Rose Rag" and “Sunflower Rag" in 1911. Wenrich formed a business partnership with Homer Howard in 1912, when they published “Kentucky Days" and “Moonlight Bay". “Whipped Cream Rag", “Snow Deer Rag" and “Ragtime Turkey Trot" came out in 1913. After a brief hiatus from publishing, during which Percy concentrated on composing while teaming up with his wife as a vaudeville duo, he hired in with the Leo Feist company. In 1914, in collaboration with lyricist Jack Mahoney, Wenrich brought out a wholesome number destined to become a standard in the traditional jazz repertoire: “When You Wore A Tulip and I Wore A Big Red Rose". Dolly Connolly, accompanied by Percy and drawing upon a repertoire consisting mostly of his songs, continued to perform live and enjoyed a certain amount of popularity on Columbia phonograph records. “Come Back, Dixie" was published in 1915, followed by “Sweet Cider Time, When You Were Mine" in 1916. The First World War seems to have inspired Wenrich to compose “Where Do We Go From Here?" in 1917, while 1922's “All Muddled Up" was a healthy response to the authentically charged atmosphere of jazz so prevalent at that time. Percy Wenrich's last memorable song was “Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon", published in 1937. He passed away March 17, 1952 in New York City.

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Notable Events on this date include:
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1972. "Big Maybelle", vocals, died in Cleveland, OH, USA. Age: 47. née: Maybelle Louise Smith : (

1973. "Kid" Ory, trombone, died in Honolulu, HI, USA. Age: 82 : (

1976. Paul Robeson, vocals, died in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Age: 77 : (

1989. Samuel "Baby" Lovett, drums, died in Leavenworth, KS, USA. Age: 94 Worked with singer/pianist Julia Lee (b. Oct. 31, 1902, Boonville, MO, USA, d. Dec. 8, 1958 in San Diego, CA, USA. Lee frequently teamed with drummer Samuel "Baby" Lovett. In 1949, Lee and Lovett played at the White House at the invitation of President Harry Truman. For a time, Lee was married to baseball player and manager Frank Duncan, of the Kansas City Monarchs.)

1990. Texas Jim Lewis, leader of the "Lone Star Cowboys" died. Age: 80

1993. Thomas A. ("Georgia Tom") Dorsey, piano/gospel, died in Chicago, IL, USA. Age: 93

1993. Wayne Raney, "The Harmonica Wizard", died. Age: 72

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Songs Recorded/Released this date include:
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1925 “Careless Love”, (Playing at Spanish Fort) - Original Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra
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1925 Hot-Hot-Hottentot”, (Fred Fisher) - The Tennessee Tooters
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1925 How Come You Do Me Like You Do? - The Tennessee Tooters
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1925 “Peter Pan (I Love You)”, (Robert King / Ray Henderson ) - Waring's Pennsylvanians
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1928 “Wolverine Blues”, (Benjamin Spikes / John Spikes / Jelly Roll Morton) - Benny Goodman's Boys
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1928 “Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella”, (Kahal / Wheeler / Fain) - Lee Morse and her Bluegrass Boys
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1928 “There Must Be A Silver Lining (That's Shining For Me)”, (Walter Donaldson / Lee Morse) - Lee Morse and her Bluegrass Boys
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1941 "Moonglow" recorded by the Artie Shaw orch. (Victor).

1942 I Said No, - Jimmy Dorsey Orch.

1942 Remember Pearl Harbor, - Sammy Kaye Orch.

1946 "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie", - Louis Jordan Orch. recorded for Decca Records.

1948 Now Is The Hour, - Bing Crosby Vocal.

1948 Now Is The Hour, - Gracie Fields Vocal.

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LYRICS:
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Careless Love
~Lonnie Johnson

Love, oh love, oh careless love
Love, love, oh careless love
You have caused me to weep
You have caused me to moan
You have caused me to lose my happy home
Don't never drive a stranger from your door
Don't never drive a stranger from your door
It may be your best friend knockin' on your door,
then it may be your brother, you will never now
Careless love, look how you carry me down
Careless love, look how you carry me down
You caused me to lose my mother and she's layin' in six feet of ground
Careless love I can't let you carry me down
Careless love, you drove me through the rain and snow
Careless love,you drove me through the rain and snow
You have robbed me out of my silver and out of all my gold,
I'll be damned if you rob me out of my soul
You've worried my mother until she died
You've caused my father to lose his mind
Now damn you, I'm goin' to shoot you and shoot you four five times,
and stand over you until you finish dyin'



Now Is The Hour

Now is the hour

When we must say goodbye.

Soon you'll be sailing

Far across the sea.

While you're away

Oh, then, remember me.

When you return

You'll find me waiting here.

Sunset glow fades in the west.

Night o'er the valley is creeping.

Birds cuddle down in their nest

Soon all the world will be sleeping.

Now is the hour

When we must goodbye.

Soon you'll be sailing

Far across the sea.

While you're away

Oh, then, remember me.

When you return

You'll find me waiting here.
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