Tag: Frank Signorelli

From the Studio #83 – I’ll Never Be the Same – I associate this song mostly with Venuti-Lang and Billie Holiday in two very different versions. It was written by Matty Malneck and Frank Signorelli, and it was originally an instrumental with the title Little Buttercup. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics that (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #336 – Original Dixieland One-Step – Arranged Dixieland with the usual repertoire is normally not my cup of tea, but when it’s as here played by some veterans of a status like Frank Signorelli, Jimmy Lytell, Miff Mole, and Chauncey Morehouse on piano, clarinet, trombone, and drums (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #53 – Stairway to the Stars Out of my home studio comes this: a couple of choruses on a tune that I’ve never had the chance to play in public. Behind it are two musicians of great fame from the 1920s: violinist Matty Malneck and pianist Frank Signorelli (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #145 – Little Buttercup. Frank Signorelli wrote the tune and recorded it three years earlier with Eddie Lang under its usual name, I’ll Never Be the Same. Later versions with touching lyrics were made by among others Billie Holiday (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #83 – Really Blue. On the LP we find a couple of classic Venuti-Lang recordings in two takes each which is good for comparison. Their routines are well worked out with virtuoso playing and the capacity to fill three minutes (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #27 – Bass Ale Blues. We listen to the New York based five-piece group Original Memphis Five (that had nothing to do with the latter mentioned town) develop from 1923 until December 1926. In the early recordings (…) read more and listenread more and listen