Come Rain or Come Shine

~ from the Stage musical "St. Louis Woman"

Music by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, 1946 

A-M Music

 

Arranged by Jack Andrews

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and the Ray Charles Singers

 

Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A , 155 E. 24th Street, New York City

Recording Time 3:18

 

Recorded March 12th, 1958   ~   Matrix No. J2PB-1903 Take 4

SESSION MUSICIANS & CHORAL

March 12, 1958 

A&R Joe Reisman

 

Orchestra

 

Leader: Mitchell Ayres

Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross

 

Sax ~ Harry Terrill

Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman

Sax ~ Philip Zolkind 

Sax ~ Wolffe Taninbaum 

Sax ~ Stanley Webb 

 

Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow 

Trumpet ~ James Milazzo 

Trumpet ~ Louis Oles 

Trumpet ~ Malven Soloman 

 

Trombone ~ Robert Byrne 

Trombone ~ John D'agostino 

Trombone ~ Thomas Mitchell 

 

French Horn ~ Fred Klein 

French Horn ~ John Barrows

 

Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman 

Violin ~ Jack Zayde 

Violin ~ Raoul Poliakin 

Violin ~ Mac Ceppos 

Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff 

Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz  

Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff 

Violin ~ Max Hollander 

Violin ~ Maurice Hershaft 

Violin ~ Samuel Rand 

Violin ~ Harry Glickman 

Violin ~ Harry Urbont 

 

Viola ~ Isadore Zir 

Viola ~ Howard Kay 

Viola ~ Leon Frengut 

Viola ~ Soloman Deutsch 

 

Cello ~ Maurice Brown 

Cello ~ Lucien Schmit 

Cello ~ Harvey Shapiro

Cello ~ Abram Borodkin

 

Piano ~ Henry Rowland

 

Guitar ~ Anthony Mottola

Guitar ~ Danny Perri 

 

Drums ~ Red Sommer 

Drums ~ Philip Kraus

 

Bass ~ Robert Haggart

 

Harp ~ Gloria Agostini

 

Choral

 

Contractor: Ray Charles 

 

EXACT LINE-UP UNIDENTIFIED

 

Trudy Packer 

Sue Singleton

Carla Houston 

Joyce De Young 

Anne Ryan McCord

Bernice Massi 

 

Alan Sokoloff 

James Stuart 

Jack Brown 

Robert Harris 

James Stover 

Robert Spiro

Herbert Davidson 

Robert Hartman 

David Vogel 

Leonard Stea

 

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Arranged by Jack Andrews

With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra

and the Ray Charles Singers

Produced by Joe Reisman

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

Recorded February 12 ~ 20 & March 5 ~ 12, 1958

 

All stereo pressings of "Saturday Night With Mr. C." excluded the track "Come Rain or Come Shine" 

despite having the title clearly printed on the jacket. It is assumed that this 'cut' had something to do with

space limitations within the new stereo format LP recording. This song was re- released in 1967 within the

RCA Camden compilation "Hello, Young Lovers," CAS-2122 (e), but the stereo version was electronically

reprocessed from monaural.

 

A special abridged tape edition of "Saturday Night With Mr. C." may actually have been released prior to the vinyl album

in early 1958. The tape is either an edited/abridged version of the intended release, from which a number of tracks are missing,

or the full release may have been expanded following. The tape version does include a stereo version of

"Come Rain or Come Shine" which was later deleted from stereo versions of the vinyl release apparently due to space

limitations. The tape is described as being 7½ inches per second and requiring "In-Line" Heads on the tape reproducing

equipment ( later described as half-track ). The tape's description as being "Stereo-Orthophonic" instead of "Living Stereo"

is further evidence that this tape pre-dates the vinyl release.  Tape recording time is approximately 25:23.

 

Notes: ~ introduced by Ruby Hill and Harold Nicholas in the Stage musical "St. Louis Woman."

The first popular recording was by Margaret Whiting with Paul Weston's Orchestra for Capitol.

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