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La Buick Roadmaster Riviera deux portes de 1952 de Jerry Gray. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.
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La Buick Roadmaster Riviera deux portes de 1952 de Jerry Gray. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.
Begin the Beguine
Cole Porter’s Begin the Beguine from the broadway musical Jubilee, and later the Ziegfeld Follies 1936 musical revue never really gained popularity. That is until swing band leader Artie Shaw recorded it. He jokingly referred to it as “a nice little tune from one of Cole Porter’s very few flop shows.”
Even the original recording label, RCA Victor, was pessimistic about the long tune "that nobody could remember from beginning to end anyway". They shunted the recording to the low cost subsidiary brand Bluebird Records and released it on the "B" side of "Indian Love Call". Shaw however had the last laugh, with the tune hit number 3 on the charts, making it a best-selling record. The recording became one of the most famous and popular of the entire Swing Era.
Shaw was the first white bandleader to employ a black female singer as a full-time member of his band, Billie Holiday, how he had employed just before making that best selling recording, and even though there are lyrics to Begin the Beguine, Shaw recorded it as an instrumental.
Shaw’s 1938 line up included Artie Shaw, clarinet, leader; John Best, first trumpet; Chuck Peterson and Claude Bowen, trumpets; George Arus, first trombone; Harry Rodgers and Russell Brown, trombones; Les Robinson, first alto saxophone; Hank Freeman, alto saxophone; Tony Pastor and Ronnie Perry, tenor saxophones; Les Burness, piano; Al Avola, guitar; Sid Weiss, bass; Cliff Leeman, drums; Jerry Gray, arranger.
– Bozzie 🎷
The song this tumblr is named after. It was written by Jerry Gray (music) and Carl Sigman (lyrics) in 1940. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra recorded it as a Bluebird 78 rpm single on April 28th of the same year, and it was released in June.
The name of the song comes from PEnnsylvania 6-5000, or 736-5000, the phone number of Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was one of several jazz bands that frequently performed at the hotel’s main restaurant, the Cafe Rouge, which feautured a ballroom to dance in. Sadly, the Cafe Rouge no longer operates, with the space being converted into a venue for megacorps and sport events.
The phone number still works: after adding the area code 212, you will hear the song in the background as the hotel’s automated message plays.
Saxophones: Hal McIntyre, Tex Beneke, Wilbur Schwartz, Ernie Caceres, Al Klink Trumpets: John Best, R. D. McMickle, Clyde Hurley, Legh Knowles Trombones: Glenn Miller, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner, Frank D'Annolfo Piano: Chummy MacGregor String bass: Herman "Trigger" Alpert Guitar: Jack Lathrop Drums: Moe Purtill
Jerry Gray, St Louis Blues, 1954 (song written in 1914 by William Christopher Handy)
Jerry Gray - Thou Swell
Album: Big Dance Tonight (Decca, 1955).
THEY DON’T MAKE ‘EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE #34
Jerry Gray - Big Dance Tonight (Decca, 1955).
Composer, arranger and conductor Jerry Gray was best known for his work with Glenn Miller. "Pennsylvnia 6-5000" and "A String of Pearls" were among the Miller hits that he composed. After Miller's plane disappeared over the English Channel in 1945, Gray took over the Miller band for a while until striking out on his own.
The cover of this LP captures the spirit of the big band era which had run its course only a few years earlier.
Daily Reco Entry 1372: Tuesday, July 04, 2017, AM
American Patrol, written by F. W. Meacham, arranged by Jerry Gray, and recorded by Glenn Miller