1941 Birth Of The Blues-Lena Horne & Henry Levine: 08 John Henry Blues (Henry Levine-instrumental)
Details
| Title | 1941 Birth Of The Blues-Lena Horne & Henry Levine: 08 John Henry Blues (Henry Levine-instrumental) |
| Author | The78Prof |
| Duration | 3:16 |
| File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
| Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=mF3QloBhgMY |
Description
An album of W.C. Handy music conducted by Henry Levine, with vocals by Lena on tracks 1,3,5 & 7
This recording was issued as one of eight in Victor’s second of four early-1940s album sets that featured cast members of NBC’s weekly program “The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street.” The tongue-in-cheek presentations of jazz, blues and Dixieland were performed by studio musicians led by Henry Levine and Paul Laval with vocals during the early seasons by Dinah Shore, Lena Horne and Linda Keene. Wikipedia’s entry “The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street” has additional details about the program.
All eight of these individual album tracks are also available for continuous sequential listening in a single 23-minute video posted under the title “1941 full album: Birth Of The Blues-Lena Horne & Henry Levine” https://youtu.be/UIOqWAvxo-o
John Henry Blues (Handy) by The Dixileland Jazz Group of “NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street” conducted by Henry Levine. 78rpm Victor 27545, originally issued in Victor album P-82, recorded in NYC June 25, 1941
Other Victor albums featuring music from the CMSOLBS included:
P-56 NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (Dinah Shore vocals) https://youtu.be/NRpK-fGn8Mw
P-86 NBC’s Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street II (Dinah Shore vocals) https://youtu.be/61tIzGB2z1E
P-119 Strictly From Dixie (Linda Keene vocals) https://youtu.be/OytLWevQOCc .
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