[Dixielandjazz] Who wrote Sing, Sing, Sing

[Rich Howard]

I'm listening to him sing it right now from an album called Louis Prima:
Capitol Collector Series.

Rich

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Harry Callaghan
<meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> If I'm not mistaken, when Louis Prima re-recorded "SSS" for Capitol in the
> late 50s, he sang the lyrics to it as well, but right now I'm just too lazy
> to go check
>
> Funny you should make mention of Chu Berry, On my program that is airing
> right now on Radio OKOM, I made mention after playing a selection by Cab
> Calloway, how I received a jazz catalog years ago where someone, probably
> thinking that they were correcting a typographical error, changed it to
> Chuck Berry. who we know never played with Cab's orchestra..
>
> HC
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Stan Brager <sbrager at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > When you look at the label of the 12" 78 recording of "Sing, Sing, Sing",
> > you'll see words "interpolating Christopher Columbus" in parentheses.
> > "Christopher Columbus" was the expansion of a riff first recorded by Chu
> > Berry and Roy Eldridge towards the end of a Billie Holiday recording.
> Berry
> > took it with him when he and Roy Eldridge joined Fletcher Henderson's
> band
> > in 1936. Fletch's brother Horace was the one who expanded the riff added
> a
> > couple of others and came up with "Christopher Columbus". Andy Razaf
> added
> > the lyrics. It was a big hit for Fletcher. Fletcher also sold the
> > arrangement to Benny Goodman. But the interpolation with Louis Prima's
> > "Sing, Sing, Sing" was the result of a head arrangement. My guess is that
> > they were both in the same key.
> >
> > There's an 1936 aircheck (Sun label) of the Goodman band playing "Sing,
> > Sing, Sing" which included a vocal by Helen Ward who really let Benny
> know
> > that she didn't like to sing it. This aircheck preceded the Henderson
> > band's
> > recording of "... Columbus" by 9 days.
> >
> > By the time Benny was in Victor's studios on July 6, 1937, the first
> > recordings of "Sing, Sing, Sing" as we know it today were made. The band
> > made 3 takes. Of those, only the second was issued at that time. The
> other
> > takes were commercially issued later in the LP days and it's fascinating
> to
> > listen to and compare the 3 takes. It's a revelation of how jazz is
> > created.
> >
> > Stan
> > Stan Brager
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ken Waltjen [mailto:kwaltjen at bendbroadband.com]
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 8:52 AM
> > > To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> > > Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> >  > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Who wrote Sing, Sing, Sing
> > >
> > > I always thought Sing, Sing, Sing was an expansion of Chu Berry's
> > > Christopher Columbus as recorded by Fletcher Henderson.
> > >
> > > On 3/19/2011 8:33 AM, Robert Ringwald wrote:
> > > > Bill Sharp wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> All of you genuine jazzers already know this, but I was surprised to
> > > find that Louis Prima wrote "Sing,Sing, Sing".  I wonder how often he
> > > gets mentioned when this song is played.  I would bet that most people
> > > introduce this song as "Sing, Sing,Sing"  by Benny Goodman.
> > > >
> > > > Dear Bill,
> > > >
> > > > Most of the time when we play Sing Sing Sing, I mention that Louis
> > > Prima wrote it but BG made it famous.
> > > >
> > > > You can see us, the Fulton Street Jazz Band, playing it in Hungary in
> > > 2007 at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0wknBipTw
> > > >
> > > > --Bob Ringwald
> > > >
> > > >
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