[Dixielandjazz] Baltimore Oriole

[Stephen G Barbone]

> "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
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> Hi List mates?I've just recently heard this great tune by Hoagie  
> Carmichael?where has it been hiding? Is there a lead sheet for it  
> anywhere?
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua1vTbRYI4M

Song has been in plain sight for a long time Bob. For example, check  
these out

Four Freshmen 1953
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwGO3N9fChI

Carmen McRae. (I heard her do it at the Cork & Bib, Westbury L.I. NY  
circa 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wplhvBCyQ4o

Helen Merrill 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzWScH7zw10&feature=related

Lorez Alexandria 1978
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vHFo6rd_9g

Bob Dorough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CNLd4sXI5M

Heck, even George Harrison did it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmW4PdB0so

Four other well know performers who did it are: Chris Conner. Gary  
Crosby, Booker Ervin, and John Mellencamp

Of course the traddies would have missed all if these, and many other  
versions which were done by pop singers and modern jazzers. <grin>

Hoagy,  as Cricket the hotel bar piano player, played it in the Movie  
"To Have and Have Not" starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall. (her  
first movie), in 1944. His name was Cricket in the film. Borgart was  
Steve, and Bacall was Slim. Surely we all saw that movie. Remember the  
Bacall quote: "You know how to whistle, don't you Steve? You just put  
your lips together and blow."

You can get a lead sheet for it on line. Just search: Lead Sheet for  
Baltimore Oriole.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband