[Dixielandjazz] Isham Jones and "Spain"

Ken Gates kwg28 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Oct 26 11:02:27 PDT 2011


Happened to reach into my CD storage and stumbled across a Bob Crosby version
of "Spain".   Nice swingin' tune--very pleasant to my ears.

My dixieland fake book has it---composed by Isham Jones.  A  search on the
internet says it was briefly number one on the pop chart of 1924.

A search on youtube only came up with a more recent composition by that name
by Chick Corea.

Wondering why such a nice old tune isn't played much  by OKOM bands?

Ken Gates



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