Comin' Home Baby - Kai Winding

I was a disc jockey in the mid-1960's and created a radio program on WHEE Radio (in Virginia) that ran for three or four years called "The Sunday Session". The main theme that I used for the program was Kai Winding's "Comin' Home Baby", which was on the flip side of "More", a relatively big popular hit at the time. The main problem I ran into at the time was that the Verve pressings of the 45 single were OFF CENTER, so when you played the record, it wobbled
just enough to make it, at least to MY ear, AWFUL! It WOWED TERRIBLY!

I bought 6 copies of the record at the local record store (The Music Bar) and every single one of them had been pressed OFF CENTER! The only other copy of this tune on YouTube that I've been able to find uses a really nice video of the Verve record spinning, and you can see that the record is swaying back and forth with each revolution. The record goes faster, then slower with each revolution, so the end result is that the music WOWS with each revolution of the disc.

It took me awhile to figure out that the solution to this is that you needed to take the 45 spindle adapter OFF the turntable and then carefully center the record properly so that the thing spun properly, without wobbling. (Another record that comes of mind is The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained
Melody" which was also pressed off-center.)

Listening to this, without correcting the off-center spinning, will drive you NUTS, especially at the end!) Anyway, I've added some neat pictures of Kai Winding to this upload and hope that his many fans will enjoy this version. Note: I am respectively leaving out mentioning, at least for now, the most famous and talented trombonist, Mr. J. J. Johnson, with whom Mr. Winding recorded many, many memorable tunes. The reason that I am not including Mr. Johnson in this commentary is that he did not take part in this particular recording.

This recording is only about Mr. Kai Winding's recording of "Comin' Home Baby", a tune that I am immensely greatful for helping make "The Sunday
Session" the success that it turned out to be, a half-century or so ago.

Rick Shultz
rickinpanama@gmail.com

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• Comin' Home Baby
• Kai Winding
• The Sunday Session

[bandeiraglaucia]

Great explanation and thank's for the post,

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[MrQuincyLane]

Brilliant !!

[Brody666Ed]

Rick, thank you SO MUCH for posting! I've been looking for this song forever, with no luck at all. It's not on iTunes, not on Rhapsody, not on Spotify. It's like it never existed, but I remember clearly grooving to it in the early 60's.

And now, listening to it after all these years -- it's just as good as I remember!

[rigaudien]

Before becoming a real DJ, this was the theme of my virtual radio shows at home ! Thanks for putting it on !!!

[nashsuper1]

love it play in my set now & again

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[MunekaMakesGraves]

<3

[skaskaster]

Very HOT sound :DDD

[VelezBlanco]

Haven't heard this in decades... gave me such a kick I started playing trombone then. Gave it up only three years later but never forgot this tune. Thank you so much for sharing!!!

[freddiemesquit1]

Great tune which I haven't heard in years. Thanks.