Jazzology
Maxine Sullivan & Bob Wilber
Close As Pages In A Book
 
Audiophile Records  AP-203
Format: Vinyl LP Record
Released: 04/01/1987

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AS LONG AS I LIVE: This is one of those songs that "you have to have been there in those days" to really enjoy. Imagine yourself there at a "Cotton Club Revue" ... maybe you'll be able to see a bevy of brown chorus girls, including Lena Horne!

GONE WITH THE WIND: The first selection I ever recorded. The label read "introducing Maxine Sullivan." The band was under the direction of Claude Thornhill my Svengali (late 1937).

DARN THAT DREAM: My featured solo number in the Broadway production "Swingin' The Dream" starring Louis Armstrong and featuring the Benny Goodman Sextet and Eddie Condon's group. I, of course, was Titania, Queen of the Fairies enamored of "Bottom" - Louis Armstrong.

EV'RY TIME (Ev'ry Time I Fall In Love): This is not so simple as it appears. It swings and it's fun. Try it!

HARLEM BUTTERFLY: One of my featured songs at Le Ruban Bleu - East Side supper club. I didn't even know at the time that Johnny Mercer had written it. I memorized the lyrics and music after hearing it sung and played by Johnny Johnston on TV.

LOCH LOMOND: My one and only hit. I still tell the story of (i) how Leo Fitzpatrick cut the Saturday Night Swing Session off the air when I first broadcast "Loch Lomond." He said it was sacrilegious; (ii) how Benny Goodman duplicated and featured the arrangement, thereby enhancing its popularity; and, (iii) how the Scots loved it when I sang it "on the Bonnie, Bonnie Banks." What really puzzles me is why after 31 years people still scream for "Loch Lomond."

TOO MANY TEARS: I first heard this song at a local vaudeville theatre in my hometown Homestead, Pennsylvania. It was background music for a troupe of "Singers' Midgets." They were dressed in penguin costumes! Of course, I really learned it from a recording by Ruth Etting, or maybe it was the Boswell Sisters. (We knew it from a Carmen Lombardo vocal with brother Guy's Royal Canadians - Producers.)

JEEPERS CREEPERS: I appeared in the picture "Going Places" starring Dick Powell, Anita Louise and Louis Armstrong, in which "Jeepers Creepers" was a featured number. When Louis and I appeared together at the Cotton Club, our entrance was made through a "paper screen" upon which the scene from the picture was projected. "Jeepers Creepers" was the horse!

RESTLESS: Torch song. Another term for a kind of Blues! (We were delighted that she decided to do this number, as we had liked it ever since the original 1935 recording by Helen Ward with Benny Goodman-Producers.)

YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY!: This gives me a chance to "swing" with the "boys in the band."

PERSONNEL
  • Maxine Sullivan (v)
  • Bob Wilber (sop, clr, arr, leader)
  • Bernie Leighton (p)
  • George Duvivier (b)
  • Gus Johnson, Jr. (d)
TRACKS
  • Side A:
  • As Long As I Live
  • Gone With The Wind
  • Rockin' In Rhythm
  • Darn That Dream
  • Ev'ry Time
  • Harlem Butterfly
  • Side B:
  • Loch Lomond
  • Too Many Tears
  • Jeepers Creepers
  • Restless
  • You're Driving Me Crazy
  • Close As Pages In A Book
 

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