1934 Paul Pendarvis - Mississippi Honeymoon (Eddie Scope, vocal)

[@Trombonology]

I fell in love with this little ditty when I first saw _The Gay Bride_ , Lombard's one film for MGM. Though a rather lightweight affair both lyrically and musically, it's one of those numbers that's easy to get on your mind and hard to get off. This is one of the best treatments I've heard, with both the snappy arrangement and the drawled vocal putting the song over charmingly.

[@rapulainen]

Where do you find these films you often refer to?

[@Trombonology]

@@rapulainen TCM!

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@Trombonology I recorded it from TCM some years back.

[@RatPfink66]

Close harmony works a certain magic...or it did in the Pendarvis band. It had the happy faculty of being sweet without cloying. The arrangements (by Billy Collins-p and Jud Denaut-sb) were straight-ahead and varied the melody, and the band's few gimmicks - trombone slide duets and section clarinet work - were pleasant and not overused. We hear from Paul as lead and, briefly, solo alto sax, a role he apparently relished more than his trademark, the violin. He seldom fiddled on record, the bridge of the vocal here being an exception. Tenor Eddie Scope was touted as "a pint-size Dick Powell," more for his appearance than his vocal timbre - he sang to the mic, not the soundstage.

[@muffs55mercury61]

For his brief recording career, Pendarvis cut some nice tunes. After he left Columbia he recorded on Brunswick.