(I Got A) New Deal In Love (1935) - Bob Crosby

from Decca 348 78 rpm
with The Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra
Music and Lyrics by J. Russel Robinson and Bill Livingston

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The virtuosic Tommy and Jimmy had been making records under the Dorsey Brothers' name since 1928, in addition to the hundreds they participated in as sidemen. Their early '30s sides, especially, were wonderful examples of jazz that often exude a defiance against the soothing sounds of early Great Depression pop. However, when the Irish-American lads actually formed a touring outfit in '34, they seem to have been intent on playing it safe and, apart from a few truly glorious instrumentals -- "Honeysuckle Rose," "By Heck," "Stop, Look and Listen," "Weary Blues," "Tailspin" come immediately to mind -- I find their rather pedestrian output very unsatisfying. The two brothers thought the world of Bing, with whom they had recorded since the three were members of the colossal Whiteman orch, and made the decision to give young Bob, ten years Bing's junior, a try. Relations between Tommy and the relatively inexperienced Crosby were strained from the beginning, with the disappointed -- and plain-spoken -- trombonist complaining about having "the wrong Crosby" in his band. ... Pretty mean, for sure -- but equally apparent is that Bob was many, many rungs below his elder brother in talent terms. We can acknowledge at the same time that most of the arrangements for the band's vocal sides are very light-weight -- a world apart from, say, the contemporaneous Goodman band charts fashioned for Helen Ward.