In recognition of Valentine’s Day, this edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion airs wind-band arrangements of love songs: happy, sad, yearning, jealous, and unrequited. Today’s edition starts with “Everybody Loves My Baby,” written in 1924 and still performed and recorded nearly 100 years later. Today’s recording is from the sound track of the HBO special Boardwalk Empire and is performed by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. The music was written by the African-American composer Spencer Williams born in 1899 in Vidalia, Louisiana, right acrosss the riverfrom my home town of Natchez, Mississippi (the beginning of the Natchez Trace); and the lyrics by African-American Jack Palmer also born in 1899, but in Nashville at the other end of the Natchez Trace.
Everybody Loves My Baby
Composer: Jack Palmer (lyrics, 1899-1976) & Spencer Williams (music, 1889-1965)
Performer: Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks
Album: Boardwalk Empire, Vol. 2You're the First, the Last, My Everything
Composer: Barry White (1944-2003)
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: MistyAmor de Mis Amores
Composer: Angel Cabral (1911-1997)
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: Misty- Misty
Composer: Erroll Garner (1921-1977)
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: Misty
- Sunny
Composer: Bobby Hebb (1938-2010)
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: Misty
- Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
Composer: Osvaldo Farres (1903-1985)
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: Misty
- Catch Me If You Can
Composer: Tom Gaebel (1975- ) & Vincent Sorg (1974- )
Performer: Marc Reift Orchestra
Album: Misty
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Composer: Mick Jagger (1943- ) & Keith Richards (1943- )
Performer: Bullhorn
Album: Best of Woodstock der Blasmusik, Volume 7
- Venus
Composer: Robbie van Leeuwen (1944- )
Performer: Viera Blech
Album: Typical Untypical
- It's Raining Men
Composer: Paul Jabara (1944-1992) & Paul Shaffer (1949- )
Performer: Philharmonic Wind Orhcestra
Album: Movie and Light Music Highlights
- All By Myself
Composer: Eric Carmen (1949- )
Performer: Philharmonic Wind Orhcestra
Album: Movie and Light Music Highlights
- Rosanna
Composer: David Paich (1954- )
Performer: Antwerp Winds
Album: Book of Genesis
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (1949 recording)
Composer: Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Performer: Les Brown and His Orchestra
Album: Great Bands of the 40s and 50s