Tag: Fess Williams

From the Studio #84 – ’Leven thirty Saturday night – This nice little song that I have recorded now was written by bandleader Earl Burtnett and two others and was published in 1929. I first heard it in an English version by Ambrose and his Orchestra, and later I’m also digging it by Fess Williams. (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #317 – Nobody but My Baby – It says “Louis Armstrong’s Original Washboard Beaters” on the label. So, what was going on here? Did they try to capitalize on Armstrong’s growing fame in Europe? Was it no mistake, just a way of selling more copies? Well, it might have been the (…) read more and listenread more and listen