[78-L] Randy Brooks

[Dan Van Landingham]

I have only one album of Brooks on Circle.Unfortunately,there is very little on the album featuring Brooks.As for his 78s,I only had one and,unfortunately,it wasn't "Tenderly".I've
been a Berigan fan since I first discovered his playing back in 1965.I was fourteen at the
time and,at that time,there was little Berigan to be found and even then what I saw on
numerous RCA albums was "I Can't Get Started".I didn't start finding his work until the
early '80s.Brooks,unfortunately,died when his mother's house burned down in 1967.He
suffered a series of strokes as far back as 1951.He was married to Ina Ray Hutton for
awhile.He was a brilliant player whose bandleading career wasn't as known as,say,Harry
James or Satchmo.Brooks was just 49 when he died.

--- On Tue, 12/22/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:


From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: [78-L] Randy Brooks
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 3:53 PM


> I have B-7505 and B-7516. Brooks sounds like Bunny without the clinkers!
>
>      Julian Vein


I love Berigan but also love Randy Brooks...those post-war black Deccas he 
made are just beautiful,  as is his lead work with Hal Kemp in 1939-40.

His Decca of The  Man With The Horn is the best version of that tune I've 
heard...there are also super Decca versions of More Than You Know, Tenderly, 
and another instrumental which I recall as "Holiday Forever" or some such.

Listen to his lead work on the Kemp Victor of  "I Thought About You." 
Magnificent record in every respect...great Bob Allen vocal as well.

Taylor


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