1934 Peggy Johnson (Beth Challis) - Miss Otis Regrets (She’s Unable To Lunch Today)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- With a couple of word changes, this most unusual Cole Porter tune (see Wikipedia for the song’s interesting backstory) was one of four titles by singer Beth Challis issued on Victor (2 of them) and Bluebird (the other 2) as “Peggy Johnson & her Orchestra.” Rust-Johnson-Shirley & DAHR reveal no names of the session musicians or leader. Most recordings on which Challis appeared had been issued between 1926 and 1928. See also the somewhat bawdy flip side “The Story Of Frankie And Johnnie” ( • 1934 Peggy Johnson (Be... ).
Transferred from 78rpm Victor 24691 - Miss Otis Regrets (She’s Unable To Lunch Today) (Porter) by Peggy Johnson and Her Orchestra, vocal by Peggy Johnson, recorded in NYC July 18, 1934 .
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I remember Bette Midler singing this on Johnny Carson’s next to final Tonight Show. That night was like a final salute to Johnny’s generation. No more big bands on TV every night after that.
Great song!
The brilliant Cole Porter was, it seems, up to any challenge as a songwriter. Every time I hear this lurid tale of transgression and murder among the smart set, I always find myself seeing the sad tale play out vividly in my mind. My favorite version in Ethel Waters, in which she seems to inject her own thoughts on the incident in her interpretation, but I do rather like Ms Challis' matter-of-fact delivery.
Very interesting. It makes an interesting companion to the Jimmie Lunceford version which I believe that band sometimes played in the South.
😂 Punchy & delightful! 😝
The backing could be by the RCA house dance band organized by (or for) Eli Oberstein - often billed as Tom Berwick (a fake name) or Sid Peltyn (its real-life trumpet man).
Or perhaps the Tony Pastor band, a notably brassy outfit who recorded in summer, 1934, as Berwick, Don Mayfield (another fake name), or Jerry Johnson (Pastor's bassist-arranger).