You get both sides of Bing here-the crooner and the scatting hipster. The Mills Brothers do their thing, including close harmony and vocalisms of instruments-tuba and muted trumpet. A nice hot track.
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| Mills Bros. |
Bing Crosby Vocal, acc. by the Mills Brothers (q.v. for personnel) / Frank Guarente, t /Will Bradley, tb / Les Dreyer, Bennie Krueger, as / Max Farley, ts / Fred Glickman, Max Solowsky, vn / Joe Meresco, p / Eddie Lang, g / Hank Stern, bb / Larry Gomar, d. New York, December 16, 1931.
- Dinah- Br 6240, Hist H-622, AoH (E)AH40, Col C2L43, Jonzo (E)JZ-12, Masters of Jazz (F)MJCD802 [CD]; Dinah-Jonzo (E)JZ-12
All entries are from my book “As Long as They Can Blow. Interracial Jazz Recording and Other Jive Before 1935.”
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