[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[Julian Vein]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I love the Jan Savitt Orch and have a Savitt CD in the car which gets a lot 
> of play as I drive around.  I told someone recently that I have on more than 
> one occasion played his Decca version of 720 In The Books nine or ten times 
> in a row...it is so damn cheery and uplifting for me!
> 
> Some seem to object to his frequent use of the "shuffle rhythm" but I 
> don't...and I don't get tired of it either.
> 
> Also I've come to the conclusion that no other band of the 30s and 40s ever 
> had TWO vocalists at one time  who together were as good as Carlotta Dale 
> and Bon Bon.
> 
> I've never heard Moonlight Serenade sung with such musical feeling as her 
> version,  and I don't think anyone including Holiday or Sarah Vaughn or 
> whoever else sang You Go To My Head any better.  She is surely the most 
> under-rated band singer of the time.
> 
> Bon bon on fast numbers can't be beat...and on stuff which on paper looks 
> pretty doubtful ("Just A Kid Named Joe" for one example) he sings with great 
> feeling and sense of time.  The first I ever heard of him was the  Savitt 
> Bluebird of Tutti Fruitti and that hooked me good!
> 
> Some might make a case that the two best singers in a band at one time were 
> Sinatra and Stafford with Dorsey,  but Jo really didn't get that many 
> chances to sing solo on record.
> 
> I'd be interested in the thoughts of others about  Carlotta Dale and Bon 
> Bon...and Savitt.
> 
> Taylor
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Hear, hear, Taylor (except for Count Sinistre)!

Love the Savitt band. They were so well focused. Preferred them to 
Lunceford.

I also like Harry Roberts's 'Litvakisms" on "Tutti Frutti". Note the 
beautiful trombone choir at the start--they play part of the melody, 
first, in perfect unison,  then slightly out of sync. This wasn't 
sloppiness, because they repeat it. And nicely recorded.

      Julian Vein


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