[78-L] New DON RAYNO PAUL WHITEMAN book

[David Lennick]

The attribution to Jeanie must have come from somewhere.,.it's in Rust's ADBD 
and Ross Laird's OKeh book (which has input from Rust).

dl

On 1/2/2013 2:49 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Hope you all had a terrific new year celebration! I'm celebrating with the
> new Paul Whiteman Volume 2 book by Don Rayno, which was delayed quite a
> while ­ I was getting updates from Amazon every week or so since the
> original publication date of August 2012 was apparently delayed ­ it finally
> arrived just before the New Year and is about twice as thick as the first
> volume! I'm fully immersed and enjoying it immensely. The only
> disappointment is the repetition of several inaccuracies that have been
> perpetuated in discographies since a year from Shevuos, Like saying that
> vocalist Jeanie Lang is credited on the label of Trumbauer's "I Like to Do
> Things For You."  The label says only, "with vocal refrain," which is
> actually Mildred Bailey, as Rayno correctly observes.  Quite a few alternate
> Whiteman takes that were issued on CD by RCA some 20 years ago are still not
> included and very surprisingly, one of Paul's last recordings, a special LP
> for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, is mentioned nowhere.  And some obvious
> details are missed ­ for example, no mention that the Modernaires' wordless
> vocal on the Decca "I'm Comin' Virginia" is based on Bix's solo with Tram.
>
> But these are tiny complaints in a massive pile of great new information and
> terrific photographs.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
>
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