Apple Honey - Woody Herman and the First Herd (1944)

Woody Herman (cl, as, dir): Sonny Berman, Charles Frankhauser, Ray Wetzel, Pete Candoli, Carl Warwick (t) / Ralph Pfeffner, Bill Harris, Ed Kiefer (tb) / Sam Marowitz, John LaPorta (as, cl) / Flip Phillips, Pete Mondello (ts) / Skippy DeSair (bar) / Marjorie
Hyams (vib) / Ralph Burns (p) / Billy Bauer (g) / Chubby Jackson (sb) / Dave Tough (d).
47. CO 34289-1 Apple Honey
New York, September 10, 1944

[@TomDjll]

That descending introduction must've been Ralph Burns', because you can hear it in an arrangement he did of "Cottontail" for Charlie Barnet just a few months before this.

[@superd222tube]

Thanks for this! Didn't know about the First Herd. Have 33's of the Thundering Herd. Great stuff!

[@peterhaigh8426]

Another of those 78s I wore out through playing incessantly, many versions recorded in later years but none quite as good as this one,apparently based on "I got rhthym "

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

+Peter Haigh I never knew it was based on the chords of "I Got Rhythm".

[@johncoffin9354]

@@hipsterdoofus1026 From about '35 to 1960 there's hardly a jazz recording session without a tune based on 'rhythm.'

[@hipsterdoofus1026]

@@johncoffin9354 that's a very good point

[@jiyujizai]

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