[Dixielandjazz] All The Girls Go Crazy About The Way I Walk

[woody]

Should you want to hear Kid Ory sing that song, you can listen to :
- This Kid's The Greatest, on Good Time Jazz GTJCD-12045-2, with Teddy 
Buckner on cornet, Pud Brown on clarinet, Lloyd Glenn on piano, Julian 
Davidson on guitar, Ed Garland on bass and Minor Hall on drums, recorded in 
the studio on July 17, 1953 - the song is credited to Kid Ory (Northern 
Music Corp - ASCAP)
- Kid Ory at the Green Room (vol II) on American Music AMCD-43, with Mutt 
Carey on trumpet, Joe Darensbourg on clarinet, Buster Wilson on piano, Bud 
Scott on guitar, Ed Garland on bass and Minor Hall on drums, recorded live 
at the Green Room in San francisco on February 10, 1947 - no writing credit.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tyleman" <tyleman at isp.com>
To: "Louis" <woodlanders at free.fr>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] All The Girls Go Crazy About The Way I Walk


> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Stephen G Barbone
> <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> This is a tune that was reputed to be part of Buddy Bolden's repertoire. 
>> The
>> way I hear it, Ory changed the words and title thus getting credit by 
>> some
>> sources for writing the tune.
>
> According to what source, Steve? It's not mentioned in Don Marquis'
> book about Bolden (generally considered the definitive book on
> Bolden), in the section dedicated to numbers the band played. There's
> also no reference to it in the book "Hear Me Talkin' to You," the
> compilation of interviews with various musicians from a variety of
> sources, first published in 1955.
>
> I couldn't find any reference, in books on Bunk and Ory, to Bolden
> having played the tune.
>
> In the liner notes to the album "Bunk and Lu: 16 Historic Recordings"
> on Good Time Jazz, Ralph Gleason writes: "All the Girls, the
> traditional New Orleans Storyville tune, was taught to the band by
> Bunk who claimed to have written it." (The recording referred to was
> made in the spring of 1944.)
>
> I recorded the tune with Turk Murphy, who was on the Bunk recording,
> and he never mentioned anything to me about Bolden, but did mention
> the tune "came from Bunk." That recording, like the Good Time Jazz
> recording, showed "traditional" for composer credit.
>
> An interesting item, from the review of a concert of Bunk with the Ory
> band, from May 9, 1943: "Rudi (Blesh) asked the audience if they
> wanted to hear the band jam a number so he had the band pick up one of
> Ory's numbers 'All the Gals (sic) Are Crazy About the Way I Walk."
>
> So, Ory or Bunk?
>
> Regarding the lyrics, if Ory included them with his copyright, I can't
> say. But there are no Ory recordings of the tune with a vocal.
>
> Maybe someone who has Tom Lord's discography can enlighten us as to
> what the first recording of the tune was with a vocal.
>
> Regards,
> Chris Tyle
>
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