RE: [Harp-L] Re: Little Walter didn't write Juke?

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

LIttle Walter may have borrowed from big bands, but the opposite is also true.

Little Walter's instrumental compositions "Quarter to Twelve" and "Off the Wall" were arranged for big band  - and recorded - by bandleader and trombonist Buddy Morrow. Morrow led a ghost band version of the Tommy Dorsey orchestra during the 1960s, but when he did his version of Little Walter tunes sometime in the 1950s he was recording teen-oriented LPs.

Has anyone from the harmonica community ever contacted Morrow to ask him about this?

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Ryan Hartt <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Ryan Hartt <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Re: Little Walter didn't write Juke?
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 6:23 AM


I don't know about the Lionel Hampton tune, but I had read in a couple of sources, and I agree, that the Les Brown tune "Leap Frog" has a riff similar to "Juke".
Here it is with the added value of Jerry Lewis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oigBrD-VI
Walter certainly was known to listen to big bands as evidenced by "Fast Large One" borrowed from Krupa's "Let Me Off Uptown", but I will say that the Juke riff lays out so naturally on the harp that it could be a coincidence. 
Ryan
                           
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