SPOTLIGHT for SEPTEMBER 9TH:


BIRTHDAYS


1887 Honore Dutrey , trombone, b. New Orleans, LA, USA, d. July 21, 1935 (or possibly 1937), Chicago, IL, USA, age 41. (Reference books all disagree on Dutrey's birth and death dates - possibly b. 1890 or '94.) This fine trombonist was one of the early New Orleans Jazzmen. Honore began his career in 1910 as trombonist with Jimmy Noone's, and other local New Orleans bands. In 1917, while serving in the U.S. Navy during WW1, an accident permanently injured his lungs, resulting in an Asthma condition that eventually took his life. Residing in Chicago, IL, USA, between 1920 and '24, his trombone was heard in such bands as Louis Armstrong's Stompers, Carroll Dickerson, Johnny Dodds, and Joe "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/honore-dutre...iography.html

Red Hot Jazz Bio:
www.redhotjazz.com/dutrey.html

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1894 Arthur Freed , composer, b. Charleston, SC, USA. d. April 12, 1973, Los Angeles, CA, USA

M3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/arthur-freed...iography.html

Born in 1894, Arthur Freed discovered his talent for writing song lyrics while still at school. A chance meeting with Minnie Marx (mother of the Marx Brothers) took him into vaudeville as a singer, and on to his first songwriting hit, 'I Cried for You'; in 1923. In 1924, in Los Angeles, he met his new collaborator, Nacio Herb Brown. They got their big break in 1929 when they wrote the songs for MGM's first talkie, The Broadway Melody.
Freed went on to write songs for forty-seven films, then persuaded Louis B Mayer to let him try his hand at producing. He bought the rights to a children's story by L Frank Baum called The Wizard of Oz , and the film's phenomenal success was the start of Arthur Freed's second career. Louis B Mayer gave him a free hand at the helm of what came to be the legendary "Freed Unit", producing some of Hollywood's greatest musicals: Meet Me in St Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), Gigi (1958) and many more. Freed employed the concept of 'organic integration' in which production numbers arose directly from character or situation, rather than being imposed in an arbitrary fashion. This and other guiding principles helped earn Best Picture Oscars for An American in Paris and Gigi. Freed retired in 1963, when competition from television began to edge out the Hollywood musical. He received a Special Academy Award in 1967.

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1927 Elvin Ray Jones, Drums, b. Pontiac, MI. USA. d. May 18, 2004. Member: 'John Coltrane Quartet'. Youngest member of a family of Jazz musicians from Pontiac Michigan, along with older brothers Hank (pianist) and Thad (trumpet). During 1946-'59, he served in the U. S. Armed Forces. After his discharge, he freelanced in his home area of Donald Byrd, Stan Getz, and also, in 1957, with the Sonny Rollins Trio recorded live at the Village Vanguard. In the fall of 1960, he joined Coltrane's Quartet, then playing in Denver, Colorado, where he replaced drummer Billy Higgins . remaining with Coltrane through January 1966 (with a brief absence in 1963). In late 1965, Coltrane added a second drummer, precipitating Jones's departure. Subsequently, he was a part of the Duke Ellington orchestra's European tour. Upon his return, he led a variety of groups (usually without a piano), and frequently with former Coltrane bassist Jimmy Garrison. He is still active today. (2002). In retrospect, it was Elvin's heavy Swing rhythm, combined with some complex polyrhythms, that was such an essential element in the sound of the Coltrane's classic quartet.

MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/elvin-jones/...iography.html

DrummerWorld Bio (see him play!):
www.drummerworld.com/drummer...nes.html

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1913 William Lewis, piano/organ, b. Gates, PA, USA.

MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/william-lewi...iography.html

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1914 "Hot Shot" Love, harmonica, b. Clarkendale, AR, USA.

MP3 Bio:
www.mp3.com/coy-hot-shot...iography.html

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1914 Marion Mann vocals. d.1966. Sang with Bob Crosby

Bio:
www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/br...mann.html

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1907 Truman "Pinky" Tomlin , vocalist/Lyricist/Orch. Leader. b. Eureka Springs, OK, USA. d. Dec. 1987. His best recalled lyric: "The Object of My Affection"
"Pinky" was a Vocalist/Lyricist/bandleader, who was most active during the 1930s and 1940s. In the mid-1930s, he was especially active in Hollywood when he appeared many films. He is best recalled today for the tune "Object of My Affection", which he and H. Coy Poe wrote the lyric to music by Harry Tobias. Pinky did quite a bit of lyric writing to Harry Tobais' music, including "Friendly Arms", "I'm In Love", "If It Wasn't For The Moon", "I'm Just A Country Boy At Heart"."You're So Necessary", "Let's Dream Awhile", "Love Is All", and many others. Pinky also had composed his own songs, writing both the music and lyric, among which are "The Love Bug Will Bite You" (a hit for Guy Lombardo's orch), "Sweet", "I Told Santa Claus to Bring You", and "In Ole Oklahoma".

Besides "Object of My Affection", Pinky and Coe wrote some other tunes together, (a couple of which also credit bandleader Jimmy Grier as co-composer) including one - "What's The Reason I'm Not Pleasin' You" - that was a very big hit for Fats Waller.

Among the films in which Pinky appeared are:
1943 Stormy Weather, starring singer Lena Horne and dancer Bill Robinson
1937 Swing It, Professor
1937 Thanks for Listening
1937 Sing While You're Able
1937 With Love and Kisses
1936 Don't Get Personal
1935 Paddy O'Day
1935 Times Square Lady
And a 1930's (?) Big Band Short, including a 50 minute film that featured "Pinky" Tomlin and His Orchestra, as well as the George Olsen orchestra, and the Vincent Lopez Orchestra (Lopez's band was in a sketch called "Hawaiian Fantasy").

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Notable Events on this date include:


1956. 21-year-old singer Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley (appearing in a New York theatre) was seen this Sunday night, by 54,000,000 viewers (82.6 percent of the U.S. television audience) when he appeared on the CBS Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan fearing that Presley's wild Pelvic gyrations would lead the nation's females into a frenzy of untold proportions, demanded that the TV cameras not venture lower than Elvis' waist! Elvis sang "Hound Dog" and "Love Me Tender".

1962. Tex Owens, C&W singer/songwriter, died. Age: 70,

1974. Irvine C. Turner, ukelele, died in Newark, NJ, USA. Age: 59

1977. Johnny Wiggs, cornet, died in New Orleans. LA, USA. Age: 78.

1981. Helen Humes, vocalist, died in Santa Monica, CA, USA. Age: 68.

1983. Sandra Tilley-Miese, vocals, died in Las Vegas, NV, USA. Age: 38. Member: 'The Velvelettes'

1993. Singer Helen O'Connell died.

1996. Bill Monroe died as a result of a stroke. Age: 84. Called: "The Father of Bluegrass"

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Songs Recorded/Released this date include:


1916 Pua Mohala, -Horace Wright-Rene Dietrich. tune: nape
1916 Isles of Aloha, - Horace Wright-Rene Dietrich. tune: Dietrich

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1925 The Death of Floyd Collins, - Vernon Dalhart.
1925 Wreck of the Shenandoah, -Vernon Dalhart.
1925 By Mothers Grave, -Vernon Dalhart.

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1926 Twelfth Street Rag, -Abe Lyman's Californians. tune: bowman
1926 Beside A Garden Wall, -Abe Lyman's California Orch.
1926 Pal of My Lonesome Hours, -Abe Lyman and his Californians.

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1926 Tell Me Tonight, -Charlie Straight and his Orch.
1926 It Made You Happy When You Made Me Cry, - Charlie Straight and his Orch.

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1927 Charmaine, - Franklyn Baur voc.

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1927 My Blue Heaven, - Don Voorhees and his Orch.
1927 Ideal Serenaders (D. Voorhees band) A Shady Tree (voc. L.J.), - tune: W. Donaldson

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1927 Broken Hearted, - Seger Ellis.
1927 Kiss and Make up, - Seger Ellis.

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1925 Hugo, I Go Where You Go, - Ross gorman's Earl Carroll orch.

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1928 Feather Bed, -Cannon Jug Stompers.
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...erbed.ram

1928 Heart Breaking Blues, -Cannon's jug stompers.
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/cj...eakin.ram

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1929 Nobody Knows (and nobody seems to care) (voc. s.l.), - Red Nichols and his Orch. tune: Irving Berlin
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/ni...Knows.ram

1929 Smiles (voc. A.L.), -Red Nichols and his Orch. tune: callahan-roberts

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1929 Woman Down In Memphis, -Bud Billings and Carson Robison. (tune: Luther and Robison)
1929 Railroad Boomer, -Bud Billings and Carson Robison.
1929 Beneath Montana Skies, -Bud Billings and Carson Robison. (tune: Luther and Robison)
1929 You Made Me Want To Forget, -Bud Billings and Carson Robison.

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1932 Say It Isn't So, -Rudy Vallee and his Orch.
1932 Me Minus You, -Rudy Vallee and his Orch.
1934 Lost In a Fog , - Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees.
1934 Out In the Cold Again, -Rudy Vallee and his Ct.yankees.

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1936 Floatin' Down To Cotton Town, - Fats Waller and his Rhythm. Tune: Frost-Klickman : )
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/wa...nTown.ram

1936 S'posin', - Fats Waller and his rhythm. tune: razaf-denniker
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/wa...posin.ram

1936 La de de La de da, - Fats Waller and his rhythm. tune: lewis-derose
*LISTEN:
www.redhotjazz.com/songs/wa...De-Da.ram

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1940 When You Awake, -Tommy Dorsey and his Orch.
1940 Anything, -Tommy Dorsey and his Orch.
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1941 Body and Soul, -Dinah Shore with Orch. under dir. Henry Levine

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1931 Sweet and Lovely, - Russ Columbo. : )
*LISTEN:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...178-6913658

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1943 Sunday, Monday Or Always, - Sinatra, Frank

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1946 Here's To The Ladies -Gene Autry
1946 Dixie Cannonball -Gene Autry

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1949 Les Brown's Band of Reknown Tico Tico (45 rpm)
1949 Les Brown's Band of Reknown 'S Wonderful (45 rpm)

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1949 Slippin' Around, - Whiting, Margaret

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1955 "Squeeze Box Boogie", - recorded by Clifton Chenier (for Specialty Records).

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1957 Hula Love, - Knox, Buddy

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1957 Fascination, - Morgan, Jane

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1967 Never My Love, - Association

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1972 My Ding-A-Ling, - Berry, Chuck

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1972 Ben, - Jackson, Michael

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1972 Burning Love, - Presley, Elvis

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1972 Use Me, - Withers, Bill

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1931 Sweet and Lovely, Russ Columbo
~(Arnheim, Tobias and Lamare)

Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in May
Sweet and lovely
Heaven must have sent her my way.
Skies above me
Never were as blue as her eyes;
And she loves me
Who would want a sweeter surprise?
When she nestles in my arms so tenderly
There's a thrill that words cannot express.
In my heart a song of love is taunting me
Melody haunting me.
Sweet and lovely
Sweeter than the roses in May
And she loves me
There is nothing more I can say