[Answered] Song from The Big Apple

[Haydn]

Does anyone know the music used for this Whitey's Lindy Hoppers' Big Apple?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9yhbO_3n4Y

[Jonas]

The riff in the song is almost exactly the same as the one in "Light Up" with Buster Bailey's Rhythm Busters, but it's not that song.

I don't think that the song in the "Keep Punchin'" Big Apple clip is available as a separate recording from that time period, but I know that the Solomon Douglas Swingtet has done a modern recording of it, calling it simply "Big Apple Contest", on the cd "Swingmatism".

http://solomondouglas.com/buy_CD.html

/Jonas

[SEp]

Hey Guys,

What about: Every Tub - Count Basie (Basie/Durham/Hendricks 9-7-1938 NY) I found on a german LP box compilation by ZEIT Magazine with CBS.

Some of these arrangements sounds so similar. ANyone any idea where these tunes originaly come from. And if the band in 'The big apple Routine' with the Whites LH was first or made an interesting interpretation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LFhQb7PvR4

http://www.redhotjazz.com/bbrb.html says Light up is recorded after Every TuB..

Fascinating!

[trev]

The consensus is that in this clip Lee Norman's Orchestra is playing one of their own riff-based arrangements which was not otherwise recorded.

[anton]

I suppose that the basic song structure and harmonies go back to 'I Got Rhythm', later reused by Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson and many others. Most of the individual riffs in the Big Apple song can be found in other songs from the 30's.

Fun Spotify project: Find 100 riff songs from the swing era based on roughly the same structure/chord changes.