Evelyn Knight: Mama aint cookin' today. (1952).

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Apr 21, 1952 - _Mama Ain't Cookin' Today_ - Willard Robison (music) & Jimmy Brewster (=Milt Gabler; words) - Sy Oliver (orchestra & arrangement) *Willard Robison* (September 18, 1894 - June 24, 1968) was an American vocalist, pianist, and composer of popular songs, born in Shelbina, Missouri. His songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana and their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael. Many of his compositions, notably "A Cottage for Sale", "Round My Old Deserted Farm", "Don't Smoke in Bed", "'Taint So, Honey, 'Taint So" and "Old Folks", have become standards and have been recorded countless times by jazz and pop artists including Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, Bing Crosby and Mildred Bailey. "A Cottage for Sale" alone has been recorded over 100 times. Life and career In the early 1920s, Robison led and toured with several territory bands in the Southwest. He met Jack Teagarden in this period, whom he befriended. In the late 1920s, Robison organized the Deep River Orchestra, later hosting a radio show entitled _The Deep River Hour_ in the early 1930s. During the 1920s, Robison recorded extensively for Perfect Records, with scores of vocal recordings accompanying himself on piano (displaying his rather eccentric stride piano style), as well as "Deep River Orchestra" recordings using standard stock arrangements (including many popular and obscure songs) One recording was his fox trot arrangement of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue on both sides of Perfect 14825 and Pathe 36644. In Alec Wilder's definitive study, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, the songwriter and critic writes of Robison: He, if ever there was one, was the maverick among song writers. Everyone loved him and many tried to help him, among them John Mercer. Mildred Bailey revered him and sang every song of his she could lay her hands on...He did manage, during his almost euphoric life, to write a few successful songs--A Cottage for Sale, and 'Taint so, My Honey, 'Taint So--but generally his songs were known only to a few singers and lovers of the off-beat and the non-urban song. He had a special flair for gentleness and childhood, the lost and the religious. Wilder concludes that although Robison's songs may not have significantly influenced the development of American popular song, "[I]f they could so much bolster John Mercer's conviction that there was more to write lyrics about than city life, that the world of memory, of remembered sayings and scenes, was as evocative as the whispered words of lovers, then he did make a contribution." American Suite songs In 1926-1927, Robison recorded a series of eight jazz songs under name of _American Suite:_ "After Hours" (American Suite No. 1) (Perfect 14728/Pathe 36547) 10/1/26 "Piano Tuner's Dream" (American Suite No. 2) (Perfect 14743/Pathe 36562) 10/22/26 "Darby Hicks" (American Suite No. 3) (Perfect 14744/Pathe 36563) 10/22/26 "The Music of a Mountain Stream" (American Suite No. 4) (Perfect 14755/Pathe 36574) 11/22/26 "Tampico" (American Suite No. 5) (Perfect 14755/Pathe 36574) 11/22/26 "Mobile Mud" (American Suite No. 6) (Perfect 14756/Pathe 36575) 10/22/26 "Deep River" (American Suite No. 7) (Perfect 14774/Pathe 36593) 11/22/26 "Harlem Blues" (American Suite No. 8) (Perfect 14821/Pathe 36640) 4/20/27 He recorded for Perfect Records and Pathé Records from 1926 to 1928. Between 1928 and 1930, he recorded for Columbia, Harmony (and associated Diva and Velvet Tone labels) and Victor. He also recorded a session in 1937 for Master Records. Jack Teagarden recorded a critically praised album of Robison's songs in 1962 entitled _Think Well of Me._ Willard Robison died in Peekskill, New York in 1968, aged 73. List of notable compositions "'Round My Old Deserted Farm" "'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So" "Jubilee" "A Cottage for Sale" "Don't Smoke in Bed" "Down to Steamboat, Tennessee" "Guess I'll Go Back Home (This Summer)" "Harlem Lullaby" "I'm a Fool About My Mama" "In A Little Waterfront Cafe" "Barrel-House Music" "It's Never Too Late to Pray" "Old Folks" "The Devil is Afraid of Music" "Deep Elm (You Tell 'Em I'm Blue)" "(Like a Bird That's on the Wing) I'm Wingin' Home" "Peaceful Valley" "Dem Deming Blues" ("The Sandstorm Division is Coming") (1918)

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Milton *Milt" Gabler* (May 20, 1911 - July 20, 2001) was an American record producer, responsible for many innovations in the recording industry of the 20th century. These included being the first person to deal in record reissues, the first to sell records by mail order, and the first to credit all the musicians on the recordings. He was also a successful songwriter, writing the lyrics for a number of standards, including "In a Mellow Tone," "Danke Schoen," and "L-O-V-E." Early life Gabler was born to a Jewish family in Harlem, New York, the son of Susie (née Kasindorf) and Julius Gabler. His father was an Austrian Jewish immigrant from Vienna, and his mother's family were Jewish immigrants from Russia, including Rostov. At 15, he began working in his father's business, a hardware store located on East 42nd Street in New York City. The store eventually sold Milt Gabler's Commodore Records and was transformed into the Commodore Music Shop which moved to 52nd Street. It was a family business for several years. Career 1930s By the mid-1930s, Gabler renamed the business the Commodore Music Shop, and it became a focal point for jazz fans and musicians alike. In 1933, Gabler began buying up unwanted copies of recordings from the record companies and resold them, making him the first person to deal in reissues, the first to sell records by mail order, and also the first to credit all the musicians on the recordings. Gabler founded a specialty label UHCA (United Hot Clubs of America) around 1935 to reissue selected 78 r.p.m. sides previously released by other companies. He was able to secure the rights to many important jazz records including the 1931 Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang all star session (from ARC), Bessie Smith's final session (from OKeh), sides by Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Miff Mole (also from OKeh). These reissues were from the original 78 stampers and were instrumental in spreading the concept of collecting classic performances from the past. Paramount and Gennett sides were dubbed from clean copies and issued on UHCA. In 1937, he opened a new store on 52nd Street, and set up a series of jam sessions in a neighboring club, Jimmy Ryan's. Some of these he began recording, setting up his own record label, Commodore Records. His role as a music producer soon superseded his other activities and he recorded many of the leading jazz artists of the day. One regular customer, Billie Holiday, found her record company, Columbia, resisting her appeals to release the song "Strange Fruit", so she offered the song to Gabler. After getting the necessary permission, he released her recording on Commodore in 1939, boosting her career and issuing what, 60 years on, Time magazine named 'Best Song of the Century'. 1940s The success of Commodore Records led to an offer to join a major record label. Gabler was recruited to work for Decca Records in 1941 and left his brother-in-law Jack Crystal (father of Billy Crystal) to run Commodore. Gabler was soon working with many of the biggest stars of the 1940s, producing a series of hits including Lionel Hampton’s "Flying Home", Billie Holiday’s "Lover Man" and The Andrews Sisters' "Rum and Coca-Cola", as well as being the first to bring Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald together on record. Placed in charge of Decca’s subsidiary label Coral, he expanded his musical scope, producing hits for country singer Red Foley, the left-leaning folk group The Weavers, Peggy Lee, The Ink Spots, and Sammy Davis Jr. In 1946, he produced and co-wrote Louis Jordan’s breakthrough single, "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie". Gabler was also the producer (but not the writer) of Jordan's exceptionally successful hit record, _Saturday Night Fish Fry,_ which held the Number 1 spot on the R&B charts for 12 weeks. 1950s and 1960s Gabler signed rockabilly act pioneering rock and roll sensation Bill Haley and His Comets to Decca Records. He produced their initial recording session in April 1954, much of which was spent cutting a song which the company thought the more likely hit of the two due to be recorded that day. Their efforts on "13 Women" left only ten minutes for the second song, which Gabler recorded with an unusually high sound level after the briefest of sound checks. "Rock Around the Clock" was cut in two takes and changed the face of popular music. Gabler later commented: "All the tricks I used with Louis Jordan, I used with Bill Haley. The only difference was the way we did the rhythm. On Jordan, we used a perfectly balanced rhythm section from the swing era ... but Bill had the heavy backbeat." Commodore Records closed in 1959. Bob Shad's Mainstream Records issued a series of LP reissues of Commodore material in the early 1960s, keeping most of these recordings available. However, through the late 1950s and 1960s, Gabler continued to guide the direction of Decca, writing songs and producing hit singles including Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry” and albums including Jesus Christ Superstar. Gabler also continued to produce all of the Comets' recordings for Decca until they left the label in 1959. Gabler also produced all studio albums in Hamburg for Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra, from 1960 to the latter's death in June 1980. Gabler wrote many lyrics for Kaempfert songs, such as "L-O-V-E", a hit for Nat King Cole, and "Danke Schoen". 1970s Gabler retired from the front line of business activity when MCA consolidated Decca with its other labels and moved the merged MCA Records to Universal City, California in 1971, but continued to produce reissues and to collect recognition from the recording industry he helped shape. He was asked to return to MCA Records in 1973 to supervise the reissue of MCA's massive back catalogue. Personal life Gabler died July 20, 2001, aged 90, at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan. The New York Times reported that the only photo at his bedside was that of Billie Holiday. Accolades In 1991, Gabler received the Grammy Trustees Award from The Recording Academy, for his significant contributions to the field of recording. In 1993, Gabler was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by his nephew, the comedian and actor Billy Crystal. In 2005, Crystal produced a documentary and CD release, both entitled The Milt Gabler Story, in tribute.

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Melvin James *"Sy" Oliver* (December 17, 1910 - May 28, 1988) was an American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader. Life Sy Oliver was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. His mother was a piano teacher, and his father was a multi-instrumentalist, who demonstrated saxophones at a time when instrument was seldom played other than by marching bands. Oliver left home at 17 to play with Zack Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels and later with Alphonse Trent. He sang and played trumpet with these bands, becoming known for his "growling" horn playing. He also began arranging with them. He continued singing for the next 17 years, making many recordings when he was with Jimmie Lunceford and with his own band. With Lunceford, from 1933 to 1939, he recorded more than two dozen vocals. From 1949 to 1951, he recorded more than a dozen with his band. With Tommy Dorsey, he recorded very few vocals. In 1941, he sang with Jo Stafford, on his own compositions "Yes Indeed" and "Swingin' on Nothin'". He also sang with The Sentimentalists on the 1944 recording of his arrangement of "Chicago". Oliver arranged and conducted many songs for Ella Fitzgerald from her Decca years. As a composer, one of his most famous songs was "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)", which he co-wrote with Trummy Young in 1939. In 1933, Oliver joined Jimmie Lunceford's band as a trumpet player, arranger and songwriter. He contributed many hit arrangements for the band, including "My Blue Heaven" and "Ain't She Sweet", as well as his original composition "For Dancers Only", which eventually became the band's theme song. He was co-arranger with pianist Ed Wilcox; Oliver primarily taking the up-tempo numbers, Wilcox the ballads. Oliver's arrangements "were a dashing parade of innovation that rivaled Ellington's for consistency and originality." In 1939, when band leader Tommy Dorsey decided he wanted a swing band, his first step was to hire Oliver as an arranger away from Lunceford for $5,000 more a year. Oliver then became one of the first African Americans with a prominent role in a white band when he joined Tommy Dorsey. (Fletcher Henderson, another African American composer/arranger, had joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as the arranger a few years earlier.) He led the transition of the Dorsey band from Dixieland to modern big band. His joining was instrumental in Dorsey luring several jazz players, including Buddy Rich, to his band. With Dorsey, Oliver continued sharing arranging duties with other arrangers, primarily Axel Stordahl, Oliver doing up-tempo tunes, Stordahl ballads. As James Kaplan put it, "Tommy Dorsey's band got a rocket boost in 1939 when Dorsey stole Lunceford's great arranger Sy Oliver." His arrangement of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" was a big hit for Dorsey in 1946, as were his compositions "Yes, Indeed!" (a gospel-jazz tune that was later recorded by Ray Charles), "Opus One" (originally titled as "Opus No. 1", but changed to suit the lyric that was added later), "The Minor Is Muggin'", and "Well, Git It". Oliver left Dorsey after seven years, in 1946, and began working as a freelance arranger and as music director for Decca. On June 26, 1950, Sy Oliver and his Orchestra recorded the first American version of "C'est si bon" (Henri Betti, André Hornez, Jerry Seelen) and "La Vie en rose" (Louiguy, Édith Piaf, Mack David) for Louis Armstrong. One of his more successful efforts as an arranger was the 1961 Frank Sinatra album, I Remember Tommy, a combined tribute to their former boss. In 1974, he began a nightly gig with a small band at the Rainbow Room in New York. He continued that gig until 1984, with occasionally time off to make festival or other dates, including at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. He retired in 1984. Sy Oliver died in New York City at the age of 77. Discography Sway It with Flowers (Brunswick, 1956) Sentimental Sy (Dot, 1958) 77 Sunset Strip and Other Selections with Frankie Ortega (Jubilee, 1959) Back Stage (Dot, 1959) Dance Music for People Who Don't Dance Any More (Riverside, 1961) What Can I Say? with Val Anthony (L.I.M.S., 1966) Yes Indeed (Black and Blue, 1973) Annie Laurie (Jazz Legacy, 1978) Easy Walker (Jazz Legacy, 1979) As sideman With Jimmie Lunceford Lunceford Special (Columbia, 1967) Stomp it Off (Decca, 1992) Rhythm is Our Business (Decca, 1996) Swingsation (GRP, 1998) With others Louis Armstrong, Satchmo Serenades (Decca, 1952) Tommy Dorsey, What Is This Thing Called Love? (Victor, 1942)[9] Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings (GRP, 1995) Frank Sinatra, The Popular Frank Sinatra (Megaforce, 2015) Caterina Valente, Plenty Valente (Decca, 1957) Peggy Lee, Miss Wonderful (Decca, 1959) - arranger, conductor Peggy Lee, Dream Street (Capitol Records, 1957) - arranger, conductor Peggy Lee with the Sy Oliver Orchestra, "The Siamese Cat Song" (Lady and the Tramp soundtrack, Walt Disney Records, 1955) - bandleader

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*Evelyn Knight* (born Evelyn Davis, December 31, 1917, Reedville, Virginia - September 28, 2007, San Jose, California) was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Damon Runyon, in one of his newspaper columns, described Knight as "a lissome blonde lassie with a gentle little voice and a face mother would not mind having brought home to her." Early years Knight's father was "head of a geodetic survey for the government". She sang soprano in the young people's choir in a church in her hometown of Reedville, Virginia. After her father's death, Knight and her mother moved to Arlington County, Virginia, in 1926. When she was 16, she sang in Washington nightclubs billed as Honey Davis. At the age of 18, she married Andrew B. Knight, a war photographer for the Washington Post, and became professionally known as Evelyn Knight. Recording During a seven-year span in the late 1940s and 1950, Knight had two No. 1 hit records and 13 that made the Top 40. Her debut recording was "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" for Decca Records in 1945. It became a Top 10 hit. In 1948, she recorded the million-seller "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was number one for seven weeks and stayed on the chart for five months. Later that year she recorded "Powder Your Face with Sunshine"; which also reached number one and remained on the chart into the following year. She had other hits including "Buttons and Bows" in 1948, which Bob Hope also sang in the film The Paleface. A list of some of her hits appears below. In 1950, she released "Candy and Cake", originally sung by Mindy Carson, and "All Dressed Up to Smile" with the Ray Charles singers. In 1951, she recorded a duet with country singer Red Foley called "My Heart Cries for You", as well as a pair of titles with Bing Crosby.[citation needed] Television Knight appeared on _The Ed Sullivan Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour_ and a 1951 television appearance with Abbott & Costello. Radio Knight began her career in high school when she would sing at Washington D.C.'s Station WRC as “Honey Davis” twice a week over NBC for $16 a broadcast.[3] Knight was the female vocalist on the Tony Martin Show, which began March 30, 1947.[6] In 1948, she co-starred with Gordon MacRae on Star Theater on CBS. She also was featured on Barry Wood's _Million Dollar Band_ program and starred in a weekly program broadcast over CBS shortwave for Latin America. Knight was also a regular on _Club Fifteen, Happy Island,_  and _The Lanny Ross Show._ Nightclubs One of Knight's early bookings was in the King Cole Room in Washington, D.C. An initial two-week contract eventually turned into a five-year stay. Near the end of that span, a Billboard reviewer wrote, "For five years she has held down the entertainment assignment in this spot and in that five years she has grown into a local tradition ... Cool and with plenty of glamour, this girl delivers her stuff in a sophisticated manner". Knight moved to New York City, where she began headlining at Manhattan nightclubs the Blue Angel and the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room. She launched her recording career in 1945 by signing with Decca records, and moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s where she headlined at Ciro's and Coconut Grove. Recognition Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Knight was among the original 1,500 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star, dedicated February 8, 1960, is at 6136 Hollywood Boulevard, in the "Recording" section. A 1947 newspaper article reported, "She has given three 'command performances' for President Truman." In 2011, one of Knight's number 1 hits, "A Little Bird Told Me" was featured as a song on the radio in the game, L.A. Noire by Rockstar Games. The song was one of many (appropriate for that era) that would randomly play throughout the game. A 2018 television advertisement entitled Lucky Guy featured Knight's version of the song "Lucky Lucky Lucky Me". The advertisement promotes the South-Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai's Tucson car. Family Divorced from Knight, she married Johnny Lehmann, a songwriter, in 1951. Her son, Andrew Knight Jr. became a concert tour lighting technician. Her second child, Fran, worked in California radio. Last years Knight's obituary in The Washington Post reported, "she abruptly retired from show business in her 30s, never to return to the spotlight. She and her family moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1969 where she lived until 2007. Following a decline in health in 2007, she moved to San Jose, California to live with her daughter. She died on September 28, 2007, aged 89, from lung cancer. Charted singles 1944 "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" 6 1945 "Chickery Chick" 10 1948 "A Little Bird Told Me" 1 "Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes" 9 "Buttons and Bows" 14 "Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)" 1 1949 "You're So Understanding" 21 "It's Too Late Now" 22 "A Wonderful Guy" 22 "Be Goody Good Good to Me" 29 1950 "Candy and Cake" 20 "All Dressed Up to Smile" 25 "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Me" 1951 "My Heart Cries for You"

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@@henridelagardere264 Dear Henri, thank you for telling about Willard Robison, Milton Gabler, Melvin Oliver, and Evelyn Knight !!!!!! You are amazing !!!!!!! I wish you a lovely Sunday !!!!!! Warm greetings from Jytte

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Goodmorning Henri !!! Thank you for the year of the record and the info !!! And for the interessting biography from Willard Robison and the lists with his songs and compositions !!!! And I wish you a magnificent Sunday !!!! Yours Henk !