[Dixielandjazz] Black & Blue significance

[Don Ingle]

In an earlier response, the version by
Ethyl Waters was brought up. Indeed, she was a suburb jazz singer, though
later in life she achieved greatness as an actress -- her performance in
Raisin in the Sun was outstanding. Among the many songs she recorded is one
fine one seldom heard (though our pianist Ann Lowry and recorded it with our
Michigan Nighthawks on a cassette we had some years back). The title is "Go
Back Where You Stayed Last Night." After we had recorded it, I got a copy of
the Water's version and was swiftly reminded of just how wonderful a
blues/jazz singer this lady was. That she did justice to Waller's "Black &
Blue" is no surprise.

----- Original Message -----
From: <JimDBB at aol.com>
To: <nancyink at ulink.net>; <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Black & Blue significance


> In a message dated 1/27/03 9:50:11 PM Central Standard Time,
> nancyink at ulink.net writes:
>
>
> > OFF-LIST
> > Hi, Steve,
> > In a conversation with Tommy Loy when he was out here last year, he said
> > that it was written because he was having a clandestine affair with a
white
> > woman and was frustrated that he couldn't be out in the open with the
> > truth.
> > What say ye, Bob Romans, Bill Gunter, Rebecca, Jim Beebe, Bob Ringwald,
or
> > anyone else to whom he may have told this? BTW: Didn't Tommy sing it so
> > well, and with so much heart? Wonderful.
>
>    I never talked with Tommy about it.  Fats Waller wrote a lot of songs
and
> many were written with Andy Razoff (spelling) who wrote the lyrics.
> I think that Waller wrote this as a semi-comic song with a deeper under
tone.
>  Most if not all of Fats's songs were lighthearted fun songs.
> So, the song can be performed in different ways.  I think that the finest
and
> deepest recording of this was Louis Armstrong, in the Symphony Hall
concert.
> This was reissued on CD a couple of years ago.
>
>   JIm Beebe
>


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