[Dixielandjazz] But Not For Me

[Stephen G Barbone]

On May 26, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

> Dear Steve,
> Fantastic!
> I tried googling <Gable, Ella and But Not For Me> as one query but  
> didn't find it.
> You're a genius.
> (Well - let's not get carried to far away.)
> 8>)
> I sounds, on my first listening, that it WAS made for the film.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill.

Dear Bill:

Elementary my dear Watson. For Clark Gable or film buffs, the site http://dearmrgable.com 
  contains everything you ever want to know about Clark Gable. I  
simply went to that site. It has a search box and I simply searched  
for But Not For Me and up popped everything you want to know about the  
movie. I'm not sure if the song came up right away or I searched again  
on the movie site for Ella. But voila, there it was.

Sounds like a movie sound track to me also. Not as polished as the  
Nelson Riddle arrangement and all those violins, she did in January  
1959 for Verve. That record included:

Ella Fitzgerald (vocal), Katharine Julyie (harp), Victor Arno, Victor  
Bay, Alex Beller, Jacques Gasselin, Benny Gill, Henry Hill, Murray  
Kellner, Erno Neufeld, Misha Russell, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson,  
Gerald Vinci (violin), Alvin Dinken, Paul Robyn, Barbara Simons, David  
Sterkin (viola), James Arkatov, Elisabeth Greenschpoon, George  
Neikrug, Kurt Reher (cello), Paul Smith (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar),  
Joe Mondragon (bass), Bill Richmond (drums), Nelson Riddle  
(conductor / arranger)

Then again, the day before she cut some more Gershwin tunes with  
Riddle as arranger. The orchestra was quite different, except for the  
same rhythm section, it was:

Conrad Gozzo, Cappy Lewis, Vito Mangano, Shorty Sherock (trumpet),  
Richard Noel, Tommy Pederson, Juan Tizol (trombone), George Roberts  
(bass trombone), Benny Carter, Ted Nash (alto sax), Plas Johnson  
(tenor sax), Justin Gordon, Joseph Koch (woodwinds).

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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