[78-L] The other "Get Happy"

[Julian Vein]

I was reading through Stanley Dance's notes on the Coleman Hawkins LP 
"Jazz Tones" (Xanadu 195).

He writes: "A somewhat dated 'rhythm' number by Harold Arlen, its 
subsequent popularity with white musicians seems to have derived from 
early recorded versions by Frankie Trumbauer and Red Nichols..."

Except the Nichols version on Brunswick 4591 isn't the well-known 
Arlen-Koehler one! I only have it on IAJRC LP 22 ("Red Nichols and his 
Five Pennies, 1929-1932"), which doesn't give composer credits. Russ 
Shor, in his notes, confusingly refers to the famous version as having 
been written by Vincent Youmans!

Oddly enough, the Abrams song listing doesn't mention this one, nor does 
Jan J. Mulder in his "Same Title, Different Song, Part 3", in Names & 
Numbers 36. However, Ty's Brunswick listing shows "Klages-Greer".

      Julian Vein


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