Frank Walker in Louisiana
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 178-179:
There was one time I was driving out in the country and stopped at a place, a shed-like affair […] called the Half-Way House. [...] The band that played there had five musicians, and I don't believe that any one of them could read a note of music. Well, I sat there and listened and listened and listened. They didn't seem to know much of anything, but finally I asked them to play a favourite of mine, a waltz called "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." They knew that one all right. They knew it just well enough to tear it apart. A few weeks later I recorded that band playing "Let Me Call You … more >>
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 178-179. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435059071322 accessed: 14 May, 2024
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hide composers| Let me call you sweetheart | performed by New Orleans Rhythm Kings |
Experience Information
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |