Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine by Cary Ginell

Author:Cary Ginell [Ginell, Cary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Composers & Musicians, Biography & Autobiography, Individual Composer & Musician, music, musician, jazz, biography, reference
ISBN: 9781480366794
Google: DTm0AQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2013-08-01T23:51:26.593765+00:00

I got the record ban blues, oh, the record ban blues,

First they make me sad, now they make me mad.

They’ll never make me glad, Petrillo, what a spin I’m in.

Thanks to who? Thanks to you!

On December 23, Eckstine was hustled into the MGM studios at WOR in New York and again a week later on the 30th, producing a total of seven titles, backed by Hugo Winterhalter’s orchestra. Of the seven, only two were issued, “I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore,” a ballad written by film director and part-time songwriter Victor Schertzinger for a 1940 Bing Crosby film called “Rhythm on the River” (sung by Mary Martin), and a song that was labeled a “novelty” in the MGM files, “Mr. B’s Blues.” Written by Eckstine, the song was a throwback to his days with his bebop band, with Eckstine singing in the blues idiom that gave him his fame, and also taking a rare solo on the valve trombone, with the Winterhalter group doing its best to swing behind him.

It would be twelve long months before Eckstine would record again, but the Petrillo ban did nothing to slow down his career. With no recording sessions to tie him down, Eckstine looked forward to his first tour of Europe, where he was already becoming as popular as he was in the United States.

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