[78-L] Now you has jazz

[David Lennick]

It may be that you see the band on screen, but they'd have been miming to a 
pre-recording by the studio orchestra plus Shaw and Deems. This was standard 
practice in films. Larry Adler tells the story of being in a film where he was 
to play a solo against Guy Lombardo's Orchestra and he said he'd rather have 
Duke Ellington, and won..Ellington's band was heard but not seen.

"In 1934, The Ellington orchestra accompanied Adler in a performance of 
Sophisticated Lady for the film "Many Happy Returns". Neither the orchestra nor 
Ellington are seen on screen, and the simple arrangement is by Jimmy Mundy. The 
Guy Lombardo orchestra was originally scheduled for the scene, but Adler 
insisted on using Ellington, who was on the Paramount lot to film "Murder at 
the Vanities." Stratemann's information comes from a January '63 Jazz Journal 
Adler interview."
http://www.depanorama.net/dems/01dems3b.htm (scroll to bottom for this)


dl

Jan Hovers wrote:
> I am sorry, after many years posting an incidental message to this forum, I still don't understand how to post to a thread; forgive me. 
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> David, you are great. I am grateful for your reply; it answers all my questions. Although I have to say that there isn’t an orchestra on Now you has jazz. It is only the Armstrong All Star Band. 
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> Thanks!
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> Jan
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> According to Lord, it is indeed Johnny Green and the MGM Studio Orchestra on 
> Now You Has Jazz with Arvell Shaw and Barrett Deems, and Louis Armstrong And 
> His Band on High Society Calypso, which was the flip side of the single.
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>  From Lord:
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> Now you has jazz
> [A5899-7] Louis Armstrong
> High Society: (Feature Film):
> Louis Armstrong (tp,vcl) Trummy Young (tb,perc-1) Edmond Hall (cl,perc-1) Billy 
> Kyle (p,g-1) Arvell Shaw (b) Barrett Deems (d) Bing Crosby (vcl) plus MGM 
> studio orchestra added (2) Johnny Green (cond)
> pre-recordings, MGM soundtage, Hollywood, January 6-18, 1956
>      High society calypso (la vcl,1)    Capitol W750, Rhino R2 72827 [CD], Duchesse
>          (Eu)352013 [CD], MCA (G)2292-57202-2 [CD]
>      Now you has jazz (la,bc vcl)    Capitol W750, Rhino R2 72827 [CD], R2 
> 79805 [CD]
>          Duchesse (Eu)352013 [CD], The Entertainers
>          (Eu)CD0250 [CD]
>      Little one (bc vcl, 2)    Capitol W750, Rhino R2 72827 [CD]
>      I love you, Samantha (bc vcl, 2)    Capitol W750, Rhino R2 72827 [CD], R2 
> 79805 [CD]
>      I love you, Samantha (fast reprise)                       -               -
>      Here comes the bride    (unissued)
> Note: Recording dates from Rhino liner notes. Previously published dates of 
> "April 20" and "May 7" are Capitol mastering dates from MGM-supplied material. 
> The film was released August 3, 1956. It has been made available on videotape.
> Only titles with Louis Armstrong are listed here.
> Those titles on Capitol W750 also on Capitol (E)LCT6116, (G)SMK83058, 
> (Jap)CP7413, (F)CO48-50714, (G)2CO48-50714, EMI (Sp)2-90014, World Record Club 
> (Aus)R00557.
> Duchesse (Eu)352013 [CD] titled "Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World"; see 
> flwg sessions to  August, 1970 for rest of CD.
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> dl
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> Jan Hovers wrote:
>> Dear friends,
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>> My question concerns the recording of Now You Has Jazz, by Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong and his band, for the soundtrack of the 1956 MGM film High Society. The record was published in the aftermath of the 78 rpm era on Capitol 3506 (matrix E 15720-D). It is rather silly that the label states that the song is accompanied by Johnnie Green conducting the MGM Studio Orchestra, as we know that it is Armstrong's band that is featured on the record. I think this was very sloppy of Capitol.
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>> For a book I am writing I would be much obliged if any of you can help me to the recording date and place of the record.
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>> I thank you all, best wishes from cold and rainy Amsterdam, Europe.
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>> Jan Hovers 
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