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KitKat bitched, so I deleted the post.

Don't forget the live 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert version with the ridiculous Krupa drum breaks- Crazy!


BTW- I like the Chick version......

Eyeball wrote:I've never had the impression that the Chick Webb version was anything more than recording that came and went with the public, but was only savored bu Jazz record collectors.

*sigh*

Eyeball, you could be right about "the public" even if we play it.

We are not "the public."
We are 1990s-2000s swing dancers. We have very different tastes than America at large in the 1930s-1950s!

I mean, thanks for asking...but please don't start a thread every time we say something that's contradictory to your knowledge about that "the public" liked or likes. Can't we...like...have a single thread called "Historian John's surprised swing DJs play this a lot--discuss" where all these things go--a thread that would get revived instead of re-started every time such an instance comes up?

I would recommend you refer to the prior thread on this topic:

Favourite recording of ... Don't Be That Way?

Jesse

JesseMiner wrote:I would recommend you refer to the prior thread on this topic:

Favourite recording of ... Don't Be That Way?

Jesse

Thanks, Jesse. It seemed too familiar. I am going to move my post over there. You can delete this useless thread.

Eyeball wrote:I've never had the impression that the Chick Webb version was anything more than recording that came and went with the public, but was only savored bu Jazz record collectors.

The Benny Goodman version clicked with the public at large, It's better played by a better band and at a more fitting tempo to the piece.

It would be interesting to do discover the history of the different Goodman and Webb versions. Were they by the same arranger? If so, why the change in the arrangement? Who exactly decided on the slower tempo and why?

As for versions of this song that I like and play -

Like:
Goodman, Webb, J Dorsey, L Hampton, Mildred Bailey.

Have played when DJing:
Anita O'Day, Goodman, J Dorsey, L Hampton, Mildred Bailey, Teddy Wilson

Would DJ in future:
Goodman, Webb, J Dorsey, L Hampton, M Bailey

kitkat wrote:

Eyeball wrote:I've never had the impression that the Chick Webb version was anything more than recording that came and went with the public, but was only savored bu Jazz record collectors.

*sigh*

Eyeball, you could be right about "the public" even if we play it.

We are not "the public."
We are 1990s-2000s swing dancers. We have very different tastes than America at large in the 1930s-1950s!

I mean, thanks for asking...but please don't start a thread every time we say something that's contradictory to your knowledge about that "the public" liked or likes. Can't we...like...have a single thread called "Historian John's surprised swing DJs play this a lot--discuss" where all these things go--a thread that would get revived instead of re-started every time such an instance comes up?

Do you rag on everyone or is it just me here? It's been tiresome and somehow you slipped off "ignore". Back you go.

Eyeball wrote:

kitkat wrote:

Eyeball wrote:I've never had the impression that the Chick Webb version was anything more than recording that came and went with the public, but was only savored bu Jazz record collectors.

*sigh*

Eyeball, you could be right about "the public" even if we play it.

We are not "the public."
We are 1990s-2000s swing dancers. We have very different tastes than America at large in the 1930s-1950s!

I mean, thanks for asking...but please don't start a thread every time we say something that's contradictory to your knowledge about that "the public" liked or likes. Can't we...like...have a single thread called "Historian John's surprised swing DJs play this a lot--discuss" where all these things go--a thread that would get revived instead of re-started every time such an instance comes up?

Do you rag on everyone or is it just me here? It's been tiresome and somehow you slipped off "ignore". Back you go.

I give my opinion's about a person's behavior any time they make this forum un-user-friendly, which generally means starting too many separate threads. It's not you in principle, it's just you most of the time in practice. But it's not you because you're you--just because of your behaviors. That I can assure you.

Eyeball wrote:Do you rag on everyone or is it just me here? It's been tiresome and somehow you slipped off "ignore". Back you go.

How utterly ironic in so many ways, not the least of which is that he targeted Katie, of all people, with whom I frequently disagree but I have never interpreted as being at all so "raggy."

Since there is no merge function I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread and again refer folks to this one:

Favourite recording of ... Don't Be That Way?

Thanks!