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Posted on May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 by 3

SING, SING, SING

Louie Prima Vesion

“Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” is a 1936 song, with music and lyrics by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang. Brunswick Records released it on February 28, 1936 on the 78 rpm record format, with “It’s Been So Long” as the B-side. The song is strongly identified with the big band and swing eras. Several have performed the piece as an instrumental, including Fletcher Henderson and, most famously, Benny Goodman.

Benny Goodman Version

On July 6, 1937, “Sing, Sing, Sing” was recorded in Hollywood with Benny Goodman on clarinet; Gene Krupa on drums; Harry James, Ziggy Elman, and Chris Griffin on trumpets; Red Ballard and Murray McEachern on trombones; Hymie Schertzer and George Koenig on alto saxophones; Art Rollini and Vido Musso on tenor saxophone; Jess Stacy on piano; Allan Reuss on guitar; and Harry Goodman on bass. The song was arranged by Jimmy Mundy. Unlike most big band arrangements of that era, limited in length to three minutes so that they could be recorded on one side of a standard 10-inch 78-rpm record, the version which Goodman’s band recorded was an extended work. The 1937 recording lasted 8 minutes and 43 seconds, and it took up both sides of a 12-inch 78.

Video – Louis Prima | original recording 1936

Louis Prima Version of Sing, Sing, Sing

Lyrics

Sing, sing, sing, everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bah bah bah dah
Now you’re singin with a swing
Sing sing sing everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bah bah bah dah
Now you’re singin like everything

When the music goes around
Everybody’s gonna go to town
But here is one thing you should know
Sing it high and sing it low
Oh, sing sing sing sing everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bah bah bah dah
Now you’re singin with a real good swing!

Video from ”Swing Kids (1993)” – Benny Goodman music track

“Sing, Sing, Sing (introducing Christopher Columbus)”

Ross Firestone says that the 1937 recording “bore only the slightest resemblance to the original score.” Helen Ward said that the changes started spontaneously: “One night Gene just refused to stop drumming when he got to the end of the third chorus, where the tune was supposed to end, so Benny blithely picked up the clarinet and noodled along with him. Then someone else stood up and took it, and it went on from there.” Firestone says the elements from “Christopher Columbus” were added this way. The title of the number as given on the Goodman recordings acknowledges the additional tune – “Sing, Sing, Sing (introducing Christopher Columbus)”.

Source: WikiPedia

Posted on May 30, 2023 by 3

The Browns | Three Bells

Another name given for “The Three Bells” was “Jimmy Brown” or “Little Jimmy Brown.” As such, the song recounts the three stages on Jimmy Brown’s life including his birth, marriage, and death. A top contry hit in 1959. Bells can symbolize beginnings and endings, a call to order, or even a command or a warning. Here at Bell, the symbol of our bell encompasses all of these.

The song is an English adaptation of the French language song “Les Trois Cloches” written by Jean Villard, with English lyrics by Bert Reisfeld. The single reached number one in the U.S. on Billboard’s Hot C&W Sides chart[2] and the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1959.

Lyrics

There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Among the pine trees half forlorn
And there on a Sunny morning
Little Jimmy Brown was born

All the chapel bells were ringing
In the little valley town
And the song that they were singing
Was for baby Jimmy Brown

Then the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
“Lead us not into temptation
Bless this hour of meditation
Guide him with eternal love”

There’s a village hidden deep in the valley
Beneath the mountains high above
And there, twenty years thereafter
Jimmy was to meet his love

All the chapel bells were ringing
Was a great day in his life
‘Cause the song that they were singing
Was for Jimmy and his wife

Then the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
“Lead us not into temptation
Bless oh Lord, this celebration
May their lives be filled with love”

From the village hidden deep in the valley
One rainy morning dark and gray
A soul winged its way to heaven
Jimmy Brown had passed away

Just a lonely bell was ringing
In the little valley town
‘Twas farewell that it was singing
To our good old Jimmy Brown

And the little congregation
Prayed for guidance from above
“Lead us not into temptation
May his soul find the salvation
Of thy great eternal love”

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Bert Reisfeld / Jean Villard

Posted on May 22, 2023May 23, 2023 by 3

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