From the Record Shelves #162 - LilaFrom the Record Shelves #162 – Lila – A popular song from 1928 by Maceo Pinkard who also wrote hit songs like Sugar and Sweet Georgia Brown. My interest in the song comes from another recorded version by Frankie Trumbauer’s orchestra, gilded by (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #157 - SugarFrom the Record Shelves #157 – Sugar – In Eddie Condon’s book We Called It music (1947) it’s said, not by him but by his co-author Thomas Sugrue: “the white musicians that went to the Lincoln Gardens, the Sunset Café or the Nest knew that however (…) read more and listenread more and listen