My Mother in Law Again Lyrics
| "Your Mother's Son-In-Police" | ||||
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| Single by Billie Holiday with the Benny Goodman Orchestra | ||||
| B-side | "Tappin' the Barrel" | |||
| Released | 1933 | |||
| Recorded | 27 November 1933 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia COL 2856-D [1] | |||
| Songwriter(southward) | Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner | |||
| Producer(s) | John Hammond | |||
| Billie Holiday with the Benny Goodman Orchestra singles chronology | ||||
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"Your Mother'southward Son-In-Police" is a song written by Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner that was recorded by Billie Vacation with a ring led past Benny Goodman on 27 November 1933. It was Vacation's first recording. It was produced by John Hammond. The song was recorded in iii takes, and Holiday was paid $35 (equivalent to $733 in 2021) for her operation.[ii]
Vacation was initially nervous as she prepared to make her first recording. The vocalizer Ethel Waters was nowadays in the studio, which farther increased her anxiousness.[2] Waters had recorded in the same studio before in the twenty-four hours with the same band.[3] Holiday was also intimidated past the presence of the famous vaudevillian Buck Washington who played the pianoforte on the recording. Buck encouraged her to sing, telling her that she wouldn't want "all these people" to think that she was a 'square'.[iv] The song was recorded in a cardinal that Vacation was uncomfortable with and at a faster pace than she wanted at Goodman'due south behest.[2] Holiday's biographer John Szwed describes the arrangement as "decorated" and "too fast".[iii] Szwed wrote that the arrangement "pitched her voice so high that it forced her to virtually shout over the band".[3]
In his book Texan Jazz, Dave Oliphant noted that on the vocal Holiday was already utilising her noted "quavering drop" at the end of words which was possibly adapted from the trumpet stylings of Louis Armstrong and began words with a "gruffness" to lend her vocal lines force and personality.[5] Oliphant highlights Jack Teagarden's trombone solo on the song, noting that it shares with Holiday'southward song "some of the aforementioned exuberance in the face of the wistful and (even inappropriate lyrics)".[5] Oliphant praises Benny Goodman'southward clarinet solo as that of a "consummate swing artist".[v]
The song afterward appeared in Lew Leslie's revue Blackbirds of 1934.[3]
In a 1956 interview with Willis Conover for Voice of America's Jazz Hour, Vacation claimed that she was 14 years old at the fourth dimension of the recording (she was actually eighteen) and that the vocal "sounds like I was doing one-act" every bit "my vox sounds so funny and high".[4]
The lyrics of the song reference the opera singer Jules Bledsoe and the histrion and singer George Jessel, pop musical artists at the fourth dimension of the recording.[half dozen]
Personnel [edit]
Billie Holiday in 1947
- Billie Holiday – vocals
- Charlie Teagarden, Shirley Clay – trumpet
- Jack Teagarden – trombone
- Benny Goodman – clarinet
- Art Karle – tenor saxophone
- Buck Washington or Joe Sullivan – piano
- Dick McDonough – guitar
- Artie Bernstein – double bass
- Factor Krupa – drums
- Deane Kincaide – arranger[seven] [8]
References [edit]
- ^ Brian Rust; Malcolm Shaw (2002). Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897–1942. Mainspring Printing. p. 646. ISBN978-0-9671819-2-9.
- ^ a b c Meg Greene (2007). Billie Holiday: A Biography. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 29. ISBN978-0-313-33629-4.
- ^ a b c d John Szwed (31 March 2015). Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth. Penguin Publishing Grouping. p. 136. ISBN978-1-101-61470-9.
- ^ a b Billie Holiday (30 July 2019). Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations. Melville House. p. 51. ISBN978-one-61219-675-six.
- ^ a b c Dave Oliphant (1996). Texan Jazz. University of Texas Printing. p. 144. ISBN978-0-292-76045-five.
- ^ "Billie Holiday Songs – Your Mother's Son-In-Constabulary". Billie Vacation Songs. Archived from the original on 2020-12-xviii. Retrieved 18 Dec 2020.
- ^ Stuart Nicholson (1 January 2000). Essential Jazz Records: Volume 1: Ragtime to Swing. A&C Black. p. 449. ISBN978-0-7201-1708-0.
- ^ "Billie Holiday Songs - 1933 sessions". Billie Holiday Songs. Archived from the original on 2020-12-18. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
External links [edit]
- "Your Female parent'due south Son-In-Law" at Discogs
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Mother%27s_Son-In-Law
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