[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 145, Issue 20

[Peter Bullis]

  Hi - there is also a recorded version with the verse by the Wilbur 
DeParis band in the Fifties - Peter
On 1/21/15 9:05 PM, Dan Barrett wrote:
> Dear all,
> Happy New Year!  Regarding "Waitin' For the Robert E. Lee," I seem to recall a great version recorded by Turk Murphy's Jazz Band. I think it might be on one of the two Good Time Jazz LPs issued in the late '50s/early '60s. I'm pretty sure it's performed as an instrumental.
> All the best,
> --Dan Barrett
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>>    1. Joe Smith, was early Rex Stewart (Anton Crouch)
>>    2. Re: Waiting for the Robert E Lee (Snogpitch)
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>> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:48:57 +1100
>> From: Anton Crouch <anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au>
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>> Hello all
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>> Ah, yes - Joe Smith. Lyricism and power.
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>> His 32 bar solo on Bessie Smith's /Hot time in (the) old town tonight/
>> (March 1927) is quite beautiful.
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>> All the best,
>> Anton
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>> On 20/01/2015 23:38, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote (in part):
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>> His younger brother Joe was the jazzman, highly esteemed as a lyrical player, with Fletcher Henderson and on blues accompaniments which many years later Count Basie was recommending Sonny Cohn to study.
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>> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 12:38:11 -0500
>> From: Snogpitch <snogpitch at yahoo.com>
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>> Most of what I have treat this tune as instrumental. I have one CD with partial lyrics, from the Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band.
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>> Snogpitch
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>>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 12:33 AM, Jim Hillesheim <jwh66047 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Any recommendations for recordings of this tune, preferably ones available on a CD, sung with complete lyrics? I would like to hear of your personal favorites.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jim Hillesheim
>>> Lawrence, Kansas
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