Bee Palmer
Long before Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Eddie Jefferson, James Moody and King Pleasure, there was Beatrice C. "Bee" Palmer (1894-1967). Here she is singing Ted Koehler's lyrics to Bix Beiderbecke's improvised solo on a 1929 recording of "Singin' the Blues" with the Frank Trumbauer Orchestra. Bee Palmer was best known as a shimmy dancer, vaudeville performer and Ziegfeld Girl, who toured with her Oh Bee! show. Her test recordings were rejected and never issued by Columbia.A more listenable vocalese version of "Singin' the Blues" was recorded in 1934 by Marion Harris (1896-1944).
Cool, where did you get these recordings? Do you have any more information about vocalese? This page seems very random, maybe it's part of some larger work?
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Look over Red Hot Jazz.
ReplyDeleteYes, this was an addenda to earlier posts. I just added "vocalese" as a label, so if you click on that, all three posts should display.