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My friend brought a copy of A Great Day in Harlem to watch yesterday and I thought there was a clip where they said something like 'if it were the 1930s right now and Andy Kirk was playing this tune, you would not be sitting still in your seat'. The tune was definitely My Blue Heaven.

Does anyone know if there is such a version? I can't find one via google. I have a few Lunceford versions, a Joe Venuti and an Oscar Peterson version.

Thanks

Perhaps a mistake on their part or hyperbole?

This is where a discography comes in handy.

Want to search a bit?

http://settlet.fateback.com/discography.html

Check the Brunswicks and the Deccas from the appropriate periods.

Of course, AK likely played MBH at one time or another, but I wasn't aware that he was associated with that song in any way.

CountBasi wrote:My friend brought a copy of A Great Day in Harlem to watch yesterday and I thought there was a clip where they said something like 'if it were the 1930s right now and Andy Kirk was playing this tune, you would not be sitting still in your seat'. The tune was definitely My Blue Heaven.

Does anyone know if there is such a version? I can't find one via google. I have a few Lunceford versions, a Joe Venuti and an Oscar Peterson version.

Thanks

I'm not aware of an Andy Kirk version, but his band might well have played it live in the 1930s.