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Off the RecordVICTOR: Two releases by Benny Goodman feature the latest Victor recordings. Benny does Peter Piper coupled with Organ Grinders Swing and Alexander’s Ragtime Band with Riffin at the Ritz. Benny’s arrangement of Organgrinder is both novel and interesting, especially in the last chorus. In the Ritz number the whole style is strictly Harlem and is just that much better for being so.Tommy Dorsay presses two commercial discs, coupling For Sentimental Reasons with Another Perfect Night is Ending. Pure sugar from the sweet hom of Tommy. He also does Close to Me and A High Hat, A Piccolo and a Cane. The latter is easily the best of the four tunes, but the whole lot is disappointing for a person with the reputation of Tommy.Eddy Duchin does No Use Pretending and You’re All I’ve Wanted. Gerry Cooper vocalizes. Duchin plus Cooper equals minus one.BLUEBIRD: Shep Fields doesChapel in the Moonlight and You’re Everything Sweet; It’s Delovely and Wintertime Dream; and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Where Have You Been All My Life. All are pure Fields at his worst.A gentleman called Tempo King murders a number of nice tunes this month with vocals that are atrocious. The dead numbers include Through the Courtesy of Love with To Mary With Love on the reverse, Swinging the Jinx Away and I Was Saying to the Moon, and lastly You’ve Got Something and One Hour for Lunch. Something should be done about Tempo, he’s a menace to the entire industry.The late Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra has had a disc reissued, Tough Breaks and Mary Lee which has Louis Armstrong, very much disguised, on the trumpet. Richard Jones and His Wizards also have a re-issue, their’s being Tickle Britches. R. J. G.
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New York Columbia Spectator
New York, New York, US
Tue, Dec 01, 1936
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