The Essentials 1934




Song of the year : Night And Daysong written by Cole Porter performed by Fred Astaire in The Gay Divorcee.


Artist of the year : Jimmie Lunceford
He left from childhood his native Mississippi for Denver (CO) where he attended in particular the music school managed by Wilberforce J. Whiteman, father of the famous bandleader Paul Whiteman. No sooner had he completed his university studies that he was hired in 1922 as saxophonist in George Morrison's band.
Appointed a little later as a teacher in Memphis, he founded there a band of students which started to record in 1927.



Gifted instrumentalist, he knew how to surround himself with the best musicians with whom he proved however very requiring. It is certainly due to the rigor he imposed on the orchestra that he will develop the famous "Lunceford bounce",  a pacey tempo particularly suited to dancing and usually regarded as an archetype of the era of the big bands and swing era. Ranked at the time as the equal of Duke Ellington and Earl Hines, he succeeded in 1934 Cab Calloway at the Cotton Club of Harlem. He recorded among others two tracks arranged by Will Hudson: Jazznocracy and White Heat which did not delay making him one of the most popular artists of his generation.


RK
Artist
Title
CT
VIDEO
 1 
Jimmie Lunceford
Remember When
(Will Hudson/Eddie Delange)
USA

 2 
Fred Astaire
Night And Day
(Cole Porter)
USA
3
Fats Waller
Breakin' The Ice
(Frank Weldon/Charles McCarthy)
USA
 4 
Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire
The Continental
(Con Conrad/Herb Magidson)
USA
 5 
Charlie Barnet
Infatuation feat; Helen Heath
(Walter Samuels/Leonard Whitcup)
USA
6
Leo Reisman feat. Fred Astaire
We're In The Money
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
USA
7
The Boswell Sisters
The Object Of My Affection
(Coy Poe/Jimmy Grier/Pinky Tomlin)
USA
 8 
Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler
I Only Have Eyes For You
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
USA
 9 
The Mills Brothers
Jungle Fever
(Howard Dietz/Walter Donaldson)
USA
10
Claude Hopkins
Margie
(J. Russel Robinson)
USA
11
Cab Calloway
Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz
(Irving Mills/Will Hudson/Andy Razaf/Willie Woods)
USA
12
Ethel Waters
Heatwave
(Irving Berlin)
USA
13
Jimmie Lunceford
Rain
(Eugene Ford)
USA
14
Cab Calloway
Jitterbug
(Calloway)
USA
15
The Boswell Sisters
You Oughta Be In Pictures
(Edward Heyman/Dana Suesse)
USA
16
The Mills Brothers
Swing It, Sister
(Burton Lane/Harold Adamson)
USA
17
Benny Goodamn
Ol' Pappy feat. Mildred Bailey
(A.J. Neiburg/Jerry Levinson/Marty Simes)
USA
18
Duke Ellington
My Old Flame feat. Ivie Anderson
(Arthur Johnston/Sam Coslow)
USA
 19 
Jimmie Lunceford
Rhythm Is Our Business
(Jimmie Lunceford/Sammy Cahn/Saul Chaplin)
USA
 20 
Ethel Waters
Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
(Cole Porter)
USA
21
Dick Powell
Dames
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
USA
 22 
Louis Prima
Sing It'Way Down Low
(Hoagy Carmichael/Jo Trent)
USA
23
Don Bestor
Little Dutch Mill feat. Neil Buckley
(Harry Barris/Arthur Freed)
USA
24
Shirley Temple
On The Good Ship Lollypop
(Richard Whiting/Sidney Clare)
USA
25
Ted Fio Rito
I'll String Along With You
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
USA
26
Fats Waller
Georgia May
(Andy Razaf/Paul Denniker)
USA
27
Bing Crosby
June In January
(Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger)
USA
 28 
Freddy Martin
What A Difference A Day Made feat. Elmer Feldkamp
(Maria Mendez Grever/Stanley Adams)
USA
29
Ethel Merman
You're A Builder Upper
("Yip" Harburg/Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin)
USA
30
Jack Teagarden
Stars Fell On Alabama
(Frank Pershing/Mitchell Parish)
USA
31
Jimmy Durante
Inka, Dinka, Doo
(Jimmy Durante/Ben Ryan)
USA
 32 
Fats Waller
Dream Man (Make Me Dream Some More)
(Joe Young/Milton Ager)
USA
 33 
The Boswell Sisters
Rock And Roll
(Richard A. Whiting)
USA
34
Gene Raymond
All I Do Is Dream Of You
(Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer)
USA
35
Benny Goodman
I'm A Hundred Percent For You feat. Helen Ward
(Ben Oakland/Irving Mills/Mitchell Parish)
USA
36
Paul Whiteman
Anything Goes feat. Ramona Davies
(Cole Porter)
USA
 37 
Ed Loy & His Orchestra
The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams feat. Helen Ward
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
USA
 38 
Fats Waller
Honeysuckle Rose
(Andy Razaf/Fats Waller)
USA
39
Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees
Lost In A Fog 
(Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh)
USA
40
Lew Stone & His Orchestra
Riptide feat. Al Bowlly
(Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson)
UK

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