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Title: Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis "SOME OF THESE DAYS" (1926) View count: 149 Rating: 5.0 (4 ratings) Description: Some of These Days Words and Music by Shelton Brooks Vocal by Sophie Tucker Accompanied by Ted Lewis and his Band Recorded November 23, 1926, Chicago "Some of These Days" was Sophie Tucker's biggest hit, but she almost missed it. One day in Chicago, Tucker's maid took her to task: "See here, young lady," the servant said, "since when are you so important that you can't hear a song by a colored writer? Here's this boy Shelton Brooks hanging around, waiting, like a dog with his tongue hanging out, for you to hear his song." Tucker listened, and liked what she heard—as did audiences who kept demanding this song from her for the next half century. Even on the earliest recording, made for Edison in 1911, Tucker's personality comes out loud and clear, with a voice that somehow manages to be both intimately conversational yet also shouted out to the back row. But this rendition is jazzier and features a more relaxed accompaniment. Tucker's voice is in fine form, both on the big notes and the little quivering cries, and her vibrato is especially impressive. [Ted Gioia, Jazz.com] Ted Lewis was born June 6, 1892 in Circleville Ohio. With his brother Edgar, he played in a local boys' band. Ted organized his own band in 1910. In 1916 he went to New York, worked at the College Arms Cabaret before joining Earl Fuller's Band. During this time he also toured in vaudeville. In 1917 he formed his first professional band. In the mid 1920s he had his own night club and appeared there often. His career spanned more than 60 years. He worked mostly as a band leader, featured on clarinet and vocals, sang in a lazy, half-talking style that earned the title "The High-Hat Tragedian of Song." His famed trademark was the battered top hat and catch-phrase "Is Everybody happy?" During his career he employed many famous jazz musicians including: George Brunis, Don Murray, Muggsie Spanier, and Jimmy Dorsey. His recordings in the 1930s often featured outstanding personnel such as Benny Goodman and Fats Waller. In the 1930s and 1940s, he led larger sweet-styled bands, and toured with his own show in the 1950s. His last major engagement was at New York's Latin Quarter in 1965. He appeared on TV several times in his later years. Ted died in New York on August 25, 1971. Tags: some of these days, shelton brooks, sophie tucker, ted lewis, 1926, 78rpm, jazz, torch, song, sentimental, ballad, red hot mama, nausea, sartre, jewish, theater, vaudeville, broadway, new, york, Author: bsgs98 |
