Tag: George Wettling

From the Record Shelves #297 – Glad To Be Unhappy – Lee Wiley’s singing has presence, and sometimes she creeps under your skin. It’s like she is singing just for you. No professional mannerism. We are lucky to have her in the history of jazz and entertainment (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #293 – The Sheik of Araby – More from Eddie Condon today! This LP contains 1944 recordings for World, a company that offered specially recorded music to radio stations. On the two LPs we get, in addition to the released takes, unissued ones (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #292 – Panama – This is probably one of the best Dixieland sessions ever made. Four tunes were recorded on November 27, 1943, and this is one of them. The group was called “Wild Bill” Davison and his Commodores. Extatic, exiting (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #202 – Rose of Washington Square – Milt Gabler had a record shop since 1926 in Manhattan, across the street from the Commodore Hotel. In the thirties, he sold mostly reissues of the jazz classics from the 1920s, and one day he said to (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #123 – Maryland, My Maryland. Ted Lewis used to ask the audience: “Is Everybody happy?” I guess that the answer was “yes”. Momentarily happy, because they had in front of them an entertainer with a good band that could spread joy around (…) read more and listenread more and listen