[78-L] EFHJREM

[Taylor Bowie]

I love the James band as well.  I've always preferred his  version  of I'm 
Beginning To See The Light (with the cool Allen Reuss intro and coda and a 
great Kitty Kallen vocal) to the lumbering  Ellington rendition which was 
issued around the same time...on that one the Ellington reed section just 
sounds like an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.  It is a great song but 
the I think the James arrangement is way better than was Duke's of his own 
tune.  Any of you James fans know who wrote that chart?

I heard James live here in Seattle in '75 with a very good local pick-up 
band...he was still playing great stuff,  both the ballads and the hot 
tunes.

Bob Russell, who wrote lyrics for "Light" and many of Ellington's other best 
melodies in the late 30s and 40s,  was one of the most underrated of the 
time.  I'm not sure how late he was doing song lyrics,  but those are his 
words on the late 60s tune He Ain't Heavy,  He's My Brother,  which was a 
big hit for The Hollies.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] EFHJREM


> Velvet Moon..Lament to Love..My Silent Love..actually there have been 
> quite a
> few reissues of Harry's romantic stuff on LP (and CD?), and the Forrest, 
> Haymes
> and Sinatra sides mostly fall into that category.
>
> dl
>
> Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>> There are some really beautiful James sides that will probably never see 
>> the
>> light of legal reissue, since they are not jazz-oriented. I've always 
>> loved
>> "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and "The Love I Long For." The arrangements
>> (Jack Mathias?) are excellent.
>>
>> Jeff Sultanof
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:30 PM, David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Last night at the Jazz Bash I saw a rather unusual sight.  One of the
>>> dealers had a large amount of 78s unsold, including some that were still
>>> in about a half dozen boxes under the table.  He bequeathed them to
>>> Scott Wenzel of Mosaic Records who at first said they would be 50 cents
>>> apiece until he looked at them.  In those boxes were EFHJREM -- Every
>>> Freaking Harry James Record Ever Made.  HUNDREDS of them.  MANY hundreds
>>> of them.  Including sleeves with three or five records in them -- all of
>>> the same record.  A few did find other homes, even Dan Morgenstern took
>>> a couple of 'em.  I picked up his Eli Eli, always wondered what that
>>> sounded like. But when I left there were still a table full of 'em.  But
>>> I think we can be well assured that there will not be a Harry James box
>>> set coming out of Mosaic.
>>>
>>> Mike (I wonder if the two Black cleaning guys are interested in Harry
>>> James) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Actually, I wish there would be a Mosaic box of the best James sides - I
>>> love his band!
>>>
>>> Dave W.
>>>
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