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Ugh. This thread is a huge lie. The four disc Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Glenn Miller set (on Jasmine records) that Falty linked a million years ago does *not* have the fast version of "Well Git It". It has the 190 bpm version you can find everywhere. Hehe, you should have ...

Check out Gene Krupa's version of "Green Eyes" (1941): Rhumba / Swing

Also check out anything recorded at Liederkranz Hall in New York (sometimes referred to as "the world's best recording studio"). The Lang-Worth transcriptions were recorded there. You'll find excellent-sounding recordings by Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, Will Bradley, Larry Clinton, Tommy D...

Cab Calloway - A Minor Breakdown [1937]. But is it take 1 or 2?

1. What....you don't own the album The Legendary Buster Smith ??!?!? That is the only one on your "don't own" list that I insist you immediately go out and purchase. Every single song on the album has such a fat soulful swinging groove, played by some fabulous musicians. One of my favorit...

I really dig those Lang-Worth transcription sessions from 1940 that were issued on Circle Records. Here is a really nice newspaper article from 1982(!) when those songs were first released on a Circle LP: http://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/arts/big-bands-swing-again-on-new-disks.html My favourites ar...

He didn't record that much as a leader in the 30s and 40s. He went to Paris in the summer of 1937 with members from Teddy Hill's Orchestra and recorded one session as leader with Django on guitar (fave track: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea) and another session with guitarist Roger Chaput (f...

Returning to the lyrics, I think she sings "in other words, careening"!

The Proper is just copy of the Classics, with added noise reduction. You can hear a slight drop-out at 0:27 that gives it away. Masters of Jazz is often quite good, but this disc (Anita O'Day Volume 1 - 1941) is bit of a disappointment. 'Alreet' is noisier than on the Classics issue. The Langworth v...

This broadcast version from c. summer 1942 was discussed here: http://www.swingdjs.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1957

Best source: https://itunes.apple.com/se/album/holid ... 51379?l=en

I listened to the Lang-Worth transcription version of the same song, but she sings it in exactly the same way, so no help there. It's a shame that there isn't a good remaster available of this song! (Or is there? I have listened to the Classics, Proper and Master of Jazz issues. Not the Time-Life CD...

Got the 2 CD set now and it's great. Span five tracks for dancers last night, and there is plenty of more good stuff on there!

Chics Is Wonderful
Fort Knox Jump
Well, Of Course
Has Anybody Here Seen Jackson
Bashful Baby Blues
...

Great stuff, ordered! (It's not on Spotify, although some of the individual tracks are available.)

1930s Charlie Barnet recordings 1934 Earl Hines Decca recordings 1940s Lucky Millinder recordings Louis Prima Decca & 1940s recordings Ellington's late 20s Okeh recordings Agree with all of those. There is also a batch of Charlie Barnet Bluebird sessions between Oct 1940 and Jan 1942 that have ...

It should be the March 18, 1937, broadcast from the Cotton Club:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/mood-indi ... /729371492