“Once you get a certain solo that fit in the tune, and that’s it, keep it!” Not even Louis could outdo his 1928 version, despite recording “West End Blues” several more times in the course of his career, as well as playing it countless times in concert for the remainder of his life. The only version that comes close to pulling it off is Charlie Barnet’s Orchestra in 1944 he turned the tune into an almost completely different piece with a swinging big band arrangement. (The sound of a clarinet is what inspired Louis’s trumpet playing.) Among those who tried, and failed, to better the Hot Five are Kid Ory, Cootie Williams Rug Cutters, Zach Whyte & His Chocolate Beau Brummels, and Jelly Roll Morton, on whose record the trumpet part was played by a clarinet. Louis’s mentor’s version lacks all the fire of the Hot Five and cannot match the dexterity of Louis opening cadenzas. “Papa Joe” (King Oliver) wrote “West End Blues,” and it was he, along with his Dixie Syncopators that originally recorded a few weeks before Louis did his thing. There were a number of attempts needed to perfect it, including one in which Singleton drops a cymbal. Not that it was a case of one-take performance. They had been playing “West End Blues” at the Savoy Ballroom, so they were simply transferring their nighttime work to a record. It is doubtful whether the old Hot Five, and certainly Lil Armstrong (Louis’s estranged wife), could have pulled off “West End Blues” Hines, in particular, is the perfect piano foil for Louis. They released two LPs on Warner Brothers Records, 1974’s Badfinger and Wish You Were Here, before disbanding in 1975 after Ham hung himself in his Surrey garage studio at age 27.“Earl Hines, he was surprised when the record came out on the market, ‘cause he brought it to my house, you know, we’d forgotten we’d recorded it.” “We write our own songs and we like simplicity and rock and roll, and we’re basically a three guitars/drums lineup.”īadfinger recorded one more album for Apple, 1973’s Ass.
“We have no front man like Joe Cocker or Jagger, and no great guitarist like Hendrix or Clapton.” Added Ham of the band’s frequent comparisons to labelmates, the Beatles: ” It’s very hard not to be similar,” he explained. “We’re just ordinary,” drummer Mike Gibbens told Rolling Stone in 1971. In the end, rocker Todd Rundgren swooped in to finish off production on the project.ĭespite its charting success, Badfinger never saw themselves as rock stars. George Harrison then stepped in to produce the album, before pulling out to focus on his previous commitments to the now-legendary Concert for Bangladesh. Badfinger recorded the LP at Clearwell Castle, in the Southwest English town of Gloucestershire, only to have Apple reject the first Geoff Emerick-produced offering. The track may have put a beautiful blue bow on what was in many ways a clean-and-tidy resolution to five mayhem-filled seasons of Breaking Bad, but Straight Up’s backstory was a far more rocky road. Singer Paulette McWilliams on Her Years With Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and Steely Danħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time
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