[Dixielandjazz] Ivie Anderson/Ellington

[Bill Haesler]

The other day Ed Coltrin wrote about seeing and listening to Duke 
Ellington and Ivie in San Frncisco in 1942 and said "My most memorable 
song was, "Rocks in my Bed", plus all the other tunes she rendered."

Dear Ed, you lucky old lurker you.
Duke recorded that one with  His Famous Orchestra in Hollywood on 26 
Sept 1941, not long before you heard it.
Rex Stewart (c) Wallace Jones and Ray Nance (t) Joe "Tricky Sam" 
Nanton, Lawrence Brown (tb) Juan Tizol (vtb) Barney Bigard (cl/ts) 
Johnny Hodges (as) Otto Hardwick (as/cl) Ben Webster (ts) Harry Carney 
(bar/cl/bcl) Duke Ellington (p) Fred Guy (g) Jimmy Blanton (sb) Sonny 
Greer (d) Ivie Anderson, (v). It was a Billy Strayhorn arrangement.
I wish I had been there, but I wuz only ten.
I'm playing it now.
Magnificent Hodges intro solo and fine Barney throughout behind Ivie.
It has been reissued on CD if you want to check around.
Kind regards,
Bill.