Tropical Heat Wave (Harlem Renaissance)

[Geezyone]

I'm reading Donald Bogle's bio of Ethel Waters right now, great read of and extraordinary life.

[missabbebuck]

Yeah, man!

[FireyNinja]

@SatchmoSings ???

[SatchmoSings]

@FireyNinja @FireyNinja The poster didn't put up the whole record; it's only 2/3s of it.

Also, did you know that Waters was a lesbian?

[FireyNinja]

@SatchmoSings I didn't have enough pictures and it was for an English project 3 years back. I didn't know that.

[SatchmoSings]

@FireyNinja The transfer of this record is most superb, that's one reason why I'm a bit disappointed that its not here in its entirety.

Good transfers of old records used to the exception rather than the rule; fortunately that's now changed.

That bit about "Communism" is a stupid non sequitur; I'm taking it down.

[FireyNinja]

@SatchmoSings Ah

[TheSinnie]

Bravo!

[FireyNinja]

@TheSinnie lol thanks, this was grade 9 Renaissance project

[greenway912]

would love to know where to get this version of the song

[FireyNinja]

@greenway912 Sorry, I got this song sent to me by my partner for an English project. it was so long ago, I'm not sure if I still have it. I will contact you if I find it.

[hechtNmacarthur]

I love this, and I'm glad to hear it, but some really should point out that "Ethel Waters's song" was written by Irving Berlin.

[FireyNinja]

Really? I didn't know that... This video was actually for an English Project 2 years ago. Thank you for informing me!

[Wallerfan]

Benny's "shriek" comes in at about 18 seconds.

[Wallerfan]

I've never heard this take before. Benny Goodman and Bunny Berigan are on this, and their solos, particularly Benny's, are quite different from the issued version. I wish I could have heard the remaining minute or so of this record. It's also a mite ironic that the band backing up Miss Waters is a white orchestra. Her best recordings, I think, are the ones in which her accompanists were James P. Johnson or Clarence Williams. A piano was all she needed.

[FireyNinja]

I actually did this for a school project... English... on the Harlem Renaissance... It was the best I got from my friend/partner. Not on this computer anymore...

[Wallerfan]

It's a good job. I've been collecting records for close to fifty years, and I had never heard this particular take of Heat Wave. I don't have my reference books with me (they're in storage in Cleveland, while I am in California) but I'd guess that this take was never issued commercially, because of Benny Goodman's kind of a shriek at the beginning of his solo. Great take!!

[arr2ssr]

yes!!!!!!

[lonelygurl8305]

Ethel Waters had a beautiful voice!