[78-L] Phil Harris/Andy Razaf

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Mon Nov 9 19:47:54 PST 2009


>>
>> As someone else pointed out,  few people would ever have heard the thing
>> (not to be confused with The Thing) if it weren't for Phil.
>>
> That was I..and speaking of The Thing, on Maurice Chevalier's French 
> language
> version "L'Objet", the sole writing credit (on the Vox LP) goes to the guy 
> who
> did the translation. Fella named Charles Aznavour. Charles Randolph 
> Grean..who dat?
>
> dl


Man...I don't know which one seems like the stranger person to be associated 
with that tune...Chevalier or Aznavour!!!

Are there any other foreign or foreign language versions of that deathless 
standard,  or was the Chevalier enough?

Taylor






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