{"id":403,"date":"2011-08-27T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:37:44","slug":"larry-clintons-bluebird-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Larry Clinton’s Bluebird Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n“Estrellita”
\nLarry Clinton’s Bluebird Orch
\n1941 (Bluebird B-11140-B)
\nLarry Clinton’s Bluebird Orchestra – Estrellita]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Essential To Me”
\nLarry Clinton’s Bluebird Orch
\nPeggy Mann, Butch Stone, vocal
\n1941 (Bluebird B-11140-B)
\nLarry Clinton’s Bluebird Orchestra – Essential To Me]<\/a><\/p>\n

The Larry Clinton Orchestra was popular during the late 1930s and early 1940s.\u00a0 The band’s best remembered recordings featured vocalist Bea Wain who left to pursue a solo career in 1939.\u00a0\u00a0 Clinton began recording for Victor in 1937. Starting in 1940 the majority of his recordings were issued on Victor’s lower priced Bluebird subsidiary label.\u00a0\u00a0 His last recording session before he disbanded and joined the Army Air Force due to U.S. entry in World War II was in September 1941.<\/p>\n

This record comes from a batch of big band\/swing era records I picked up a while back and have not yet had the time to fully sort through or listen to.\u00a0\u00a0 I have picked this one out because I am very fond of the song “Estrellita” and enjoy hearing different versions of it.\u00a0\u00a0 The song dates back to 1912 and was written by Mexican composer Manuel Ponce<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the years it has been performed and recorded by many different artists in a variety of musical styles.<\/p>\n

The song on the flip side, “Essential To Me,” is one that apparently was not particularly successful at the time and has been largely forgotten.\u00a0\u00a0 Its Mort Greene lyrics are interesting in that they contain several references to the era’s pop culture including buffalo nickels, Jack Benny’s Jello sponsored radio program as well as the Amos ‘n Andy and Edgar Bergen – Charlie McCarthy radio programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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