Tag: Ethel Waters

From the Studio #33 – Am I Blue? – Here is another very attractive and useful tune, to be arranged or just played in a jam. Ethel Waters can be seen in an early film singing it. Later versions by Billie Holiday and others have dropped the verse. Normally it’s played in F but (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #25 – Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night – This tune with a long title also has a very long sequence with the same tonic chord, which can be a challenge when you make an instrumental version like I attempted. The song was written by (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #10 – Dinah – Here is a jam on Dinah. The tune is from Akst-Lewis-Young and was published in 1925. Ethel Waters sang it, and Jean Goldkette’s Orchestra made an instrumental record. Other memorable versions are the ones of Bing Crosby with (…) read more and listenread more and listen