[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[GENE JOSLIN]

Jan Savitt, Bon Bon et al made a number of great Thesaurus transcriptions.
Afternoon radio was brightened in the 30's with "Quaker City Jazz" live from Philadelphia  The theme contains a beautiful long lip flutter on the trombone, which can be heard on a Bluebird of the time.  Many highs school dance bands played the arrangement of 720 in the Books.  The bright chord progressions in the intro were a joy. -Gene Joslin

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:42 PM
> Thanks, Bud.  I have one of his
> Joe Davis issues which reminds me of the 
> blue Decca of Bon Bon and his Buddies of "I Don't Want To
> Set The World On 
> Fire."  Wow that is a great one...with a little
> pick-up band including Eddie 
> Durham as I recall.
> 
> A great singer...anyone have any more info on his later
> career,  or that of 
> Carlotta Dale?  Of course Bon Bon's earliest records
> are Vocalions, a 
> Columbia (just one,  I recall)  and Brunswicks
> with  "The Three Keys."
> 
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists
> 
> 
> > After leaving Jan Savitt's orchestra, Bon Bon (George
> Tunnell) made
> > recordings on the red label Joe Davis series as "Bon
> Bon and his Buddies."
> > A fine selection in this series is one called "You'd
> Better Stop Playing
> > Around," which is actually a play on words. 
> ("playing" sounding
> > suspiciously like "laying.")
> >
> > Bud
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: Taylor Bowie
> > Date: 7/29/2009 1:28:00 PM
> > To: 78-L Mail List
> > Subject: [78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists
> >
> > 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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