[Dixielandjazz] Lead sheet for "With Plenty of Money"

Scott Anthony santh at comcast.net
Mon Apr 9 10:00:52 PDT 2012


My favorite is the version by the Buffalo Bills with Harry Reser backing 
them up on banjo. I'm sure the track is available on iTunes and Spotify.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dingo" <roadie at btinternet.com>
To: <santh at comcast.net>
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Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2012 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Lead sheet for "With Plenty of Money"


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Haesler"
>
>> Dingo wrote [in part]:
>>> That's one of my favourite tunes of the era, at least, the Dick Powell 
>>> version is which can be heard at: 
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78U_38V804
>>> There's some very tasty clarinet at 1.05 which, for the last 3 decades I 
>>> have been trying (on and off) to put a name to. The drummer shines 
>>> briefly at 1.18 too.
>>
>> Dear John,
>> It was recorded for Decca in Los Angeles on 11 November 1936 accompanied 
>> by Victor Young and His Orch.
>> All we need to do now is to find who was in Young's recording studio pool 
>> at that time.
>> Both the drummer and clarinetist are familiar to me too.
>> Jimmy Dorsey and Ray McKinley?
>> The Jimmy Dorsey band was in LA at that time.
>> Very kind regards,
>> Bill.
>
> Hello Bill,
> Thanx for the info, I s'pose JD & R Mc could well be considered as 
> suspects. As regards the clarinet (simple system methinks), I've been 
> thinking about lesser known 'others' like Slats Long and Joe Dixon but 
> haven't tied anything in as yet. As with many web searches, I wandered way 
> off base and landed on an interesting Ray Coniff site. Details being sent 
> off-list.
> Cheers,
> ~~
> John D
>
>
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