Re: [Harp-L] Sinatra and harmonica

[Wilbur Euler <dubyail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From what I can come with This Town is the only time Toots played with Sinatra.
Regards,
Wil

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> On Nov 21, 2015, at 2:12 PM, Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>   I posted previously about a negative harmonica reference I found in the
> new Frank Sinatra biography by James Kaplan.  I found one other interesting
> harmonica item in the book.  The author mentions a disappointing recording
> session partially "redeemed by the weirdly wonderful "This Town"---the
> closest thing to a straight-up blues Sinatra ever recorded, complete with
> wailing harmonica...."
>   Listening to the track (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSRxwx581k), it
> definitely cooks but the harmonica stuff is pretty pedestrian.  How much
> better would it have been if they had used a guy Sinatra had worked with
> before, Danny Welton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn-nfSr0n_Y?  Or
> brought in Charlie McCoy, who did a nice job on a blues with Elvis Presley
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Q6OlKHywA.  Or if George "Harmonica"
> Smith had been nearby.  Definitely a missed opportunity, to my way of
> thinking.
> 
> Mick Zaklan