[78-L] The Folks Who Live On The Teddy Hill

[Taylor Bowie]

Not wanting to beat a dead horse,  but no one here,  including me,  ever 
said that Teddy Hill or any other well-known black band was a "sweet band".

I said that the particular chart of Got Me Doin' Things was played 
brilliantly in a sweet band style.  It is unique among Teddy Hill records in 
that regard.  Please compare it with the other side (Here Comes Cookie) or 
Hill's  other pre-Bluebird sides and maybe what I said will make sense.  The 
ballad-type numbers on Bluebird (e.g. Would You Like to Buy a Dream) are 
much more directly of the swing-band style.

I have a hunch that part of my "failure to communicate" here is that some of 
you consider "sweet band" to be a derogatory description,  which I do not.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Good post from fnarf


> You are correct, Al. In fact, I cannot think of any black band which was
> considered a sweet band. The nearest I can think of was the Teddy Wilson
> 1939 band, but only at certain times. George Simon characterized the band 
> as
> 'polite,' but its ballad recordings definitely put this band in the 
> 'sweet'
> category.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:27 AM, simmonssomer 
> <simmonssomer at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> Jeff  et al...I am aware that the black( and white) bands played waltzes
>> and
>> novelty numbers...but that did not make them "sweet" bands.
>>
>> You see folks...it's all in the sound...not the type of songs.
>>
>>
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