[Dixielandjazz] Re: Armstrong & Rodgers - Blue Yodel no 9

[Goggin, Brian (Dublin)]

It has been well documented for years that it was Louis and Lil backing
Jimmie on this one.

BTW Louis and Lil remained friends after they split and there is a photo of
the two of them together from around this time aswell.


>The received opinion, that the pianist on the 16 July 1930 Los Angeles
>recording of Blue Yodel no 9 is Lil Hardin-Armstrong, is probably wrong.

>There is no evidence that Lil recorded with Louis after Savoy Blues
>(Chicago, 13 December 1927).

>What'll I do? Admit that it could well be Miss Lil on BY9 - having an off
>day and probably not caring a great deal about a one-off anonymous
>recording with a husband from whom she had drifted apart, and a yodeller.


> Hello Bill
> 
> you wrote (in part)
> 
> >Go back and listen.
> >Think about Lil on the Hot 5s first. 
> >Then play Blue Yodel 9.
> 
> Ha, I thought - here's where I'll convince you that instinct is no
> substitute (sweet substitute?) for the cold reality of listening   :-)
> 
> Coming back to BY9 every second or third side, I started playing all the
> electrically recorded Hot 5s. I was soon comfortable with my conclusion
> that the BY9 pianist is not Miss Lil - Lil is consistently percussive, has
> a bell-like quality in the right hand and shows none of heavy-handedness
> of
> the BY9 "unknown".
> 
> Then I came to "I'm not rough" (10 December 1927). Aargh! The piano intro
> is very similar indeed to that on BY9. Bugger!
> 
> What'll I do? Admit that it could well be Miss Lil on BY9 - having an off
> day and probably not caring a great deal about a one-off anonymous
> recording with a husband from whom she had drifted apart, and a yodeller.
> 
> Such is life,
> Anton
> 
> 
> 
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