[78-L] Harold Arlen question

[Don Chichester]

Looks like you'll have the blues in the night.
 
Don
 

> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:36:22 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Harold Arlen question
> 
> You know it and I know it and Simon knew it, but I gotta get something in print.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 1/16/2013 12:28 PM, djwein at earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> > It's Arlen, don't know how anyone could think otherwise. His voice was very distinctive.
> >
> > Dave Weiner
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> Sent: Jan 16, 2013 12:21 PM
> >> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Harold Arlen question
> >>
> >> I have the FM set (in storage) and the liner notes were my source as well.
> >> Harold Arlen's autobiography is around here somewhere (Rhythm, Rainbows and
> >> Blues) but not immediately visible.
> >>
> >> YahooGroups seems to be back online so maybe Will Friedwald or another ToNY
> >> member will weigh in.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> On 1/16/2013 12:09 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> >>> Long ago I made notes on microgroove issues of prewar jazz, and one of them is:
> >>>
> >>> "10 Sep 1941: Blues In The Night: back-up vocal by Harold Arlen (from Franklin Mint)."
> >>>
> >>> Herman titles were on FM Big Band Era 45& 46 (mixed with postwar tracks), in 4LP Album 12 (= 45-48).
> >>> At the time I had seen the FM set in a library, but there is the possibility that I made the note after a review.
> >>> (I assume the title is not on the FM Jazz set).
> >>>
> >>> The title is on an MCA CD: GRD 606, which only mentions Herman's vocal (as does the Garrod disco).
> >>>
> >>> han enderman
> >>> ===
> >>>>>> Confirmation needed (will settle for a bar mitzvah). Harold Arlen is the
> >>> fill-in voice on Woody Herman's "Blues in the Night", no? My source for this
> >>> was the Franklin Mint big band set (notes by George T. Simon, I think, but the
> >>> albums are in storage where I can't check them) and I've seen other references
> >>> but nothing I can point to right now. This is being questioned by a reviewer in
> >>> Jazz Journal, so I need to provide something firm. What sayeth the Lord?
> >>>
> >>> dl
> >>> <<<
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