Tag: Muggsy Spanier

From the Record Shelves #211 – Dip Your Brush in the Sunshine – Ted Lewis (1892–1971) had a long career in the entertainment business, with his top hat and clarinet combined with great charm. In this period, at the beginning of the 1930s, he takes on the task of trying to (…) 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

From the Record Shelves #160 – Baby Won’t You Please Come Home – I think about one of my first records, a Christmas present. It was an EP, volume two in the Jazz Museum series on Coral, then released under Frank Teschmacher’s name, but the name of (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #81 – Why Couldn’t It Be Poor Little Me. I had trouble with the lady in the music shop. At this time in the beginning of the 60s you could not go through the piles of LP records like you do today. They were all behind the counter, and (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #21 – Somebody Loves You. When USA went into the depression era one of the most popular orchestras led by Ted Lewis had to face a severe decline in record sales. Buying records became a luxury and then the competition from radio (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #16 – Lonesome Road. There was a time in the 1960’s when we had a jazz program in the national radio where you could suggest that they should play a certain record and then as a reward you got a copy of it (…) read more and listenscreen-reader-text