[78-L] Martin Williams (was: Blistering exchange between Leonard Feather and Chris Albertson)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Sep 13 20:16:17 PDT 2009


Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Jack Raymond <jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu>
>> As far as I know, the only Gershwin recording of "Someone
>> to Watch over Me" that the Smithsonian ever re-issued is
>> the 1927 commercial record he made in England for Columbia.
>  
>  RIGHT!!!  I was humming the lyrics at the points of the edits while
> typing this and for some reason even this didn't help tell me that the
> correct title is "The Man I Love".  

But it was recorded in New York, not England, November 8/26. And the intro was 
chopped on The Original Sound of The 20s, for no good reason.

dl




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