DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #117: Shoot The Sherbert To Me Herbert

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DJ Chrisbe's Song of the Week #117: Shoot The Sherbert To Me Herbert by Tommy Dorsey

Last weekend, I was teaching with Ulla Wingenfelder at Froggy Whitsun in Dortmund, Germany. While preparing a musicality class, I rediscovered a song that we found in her music library. I have no idea, why I didn’t have this beautiful tune in MY library… Shoot The Sherbert To Me Herbert The title could also be found under the name “Shoot The Sherbet To Me Herbert”. I was asking myself, what the title could mean so I was doing some research on the internet. In an news archive, I found an article with the following text: [...] it appears to just be [...]

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #91: ‘Tain’t What You Do

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DJ Chrisbe's Song of the Week #91: "'Tain't What You Do" by Jimmie Lunceford

When you are an experienced dancer, then you know this song for sure. If you are a beginner, then here is a song you have to know! It was one of Frankie Manning‘s favourite songs and it is very often used for the Shim Sham. It Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It) was composed by Melvin “Sy” Oliver and co-written with Trummy Young. It was first recorded in 1939 by Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra. Sy Oliver (17.12.1910 – 28.05.1988) was a trumpeter, vocalist, composer and arranger. In 1933 he joined Jimmie Lunceford’s orchestra to [...]

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DJ Chrisbe’s Song of the Week #24: I’ve Found A New Baby

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Tommy Dorsey 1942 War Bond Broadcasts

As you might know, I love finding new versions of I’ve Found A New Baby (or: I Found A New Baby), one of my alltime favourites. Here is another wonderful version of that tune, a radio broadcast (called “War Bond Broadcast”) from 1942 by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, recorded on 16th October at the Treasury Show in Hollywood. Actually I don’t know that much about these shows or broadcasts. I suppose they were done for collecting money respectively selling war bonds to finance military operations during World War II (?). Most of the recordings of “I’ve Found A New [...]

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