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Donkey Serenade
- Music by
Rudolf Friml and
Herbert Stothart,
- with lyrics by
Robert Wright and
George Forest , 1937
- G. Schirmer Music ASCAP
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- With Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra
- Arrangements by Joe Lipman and
Jack Andrews
- Produced by Charles
Grean and Lee Schapiro
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- Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
- Final Recording Time 2:43
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- Recorded
April
16th, 1959 ~
Matrix No.
K2PB-2314 Take 8 - 6
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- SESSION MUSICIANS
- April 16, 1959
- Produced by Charles Grean and Lee
Schapiro
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- Orchestra
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- Leader: Mitchell Ayres
- Contractor: Henry "Hank" Ross
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- Sax ~ Harry Terrill
- Sax ~ Bernard Kaufman
- Sax ~ Sid Jekowsky
- Sax ~ Philip Zolkind
- Sax ~ Romeo Penque
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- Trumpet ~ James Maxwell
- Trumpet ~ Bernie Glow
- Trumpet ~ James Milazzo
- Trumpet ~ John Lawson
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- Trombone ~ Robert Byrne
- Trombone ~ John D'agostino
- Trombone ~ Richard Hixon
- Trombone ~ Jack Satterfield
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- Violin ~ Sylvan Shulman
- Violin ~ Jack Zayde
- Violin ~ Raoul Poliskin
- Violin ~ Felix Orlewitz
- Violin ~ Tosha Samaroff
- Violin ~ Mac Ceppos
- Violin ~ Harry Melnikoff
- Violin ~ Harry Glickman
- Violin ~ Samuel Rand
- Violin ~ Max Hollander
- Violin ~ Charles Fleischmann
- Violin ~ Marc Brown
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- Viola ~ Howard Kay
- Viola ~ Isadore Zir
- Viola ~ Leon Frengut
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- Cello ~ Maurice Brown
- Cello ~ Abram Borodkin
- Cello ~ Charles McCracken
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- Piano ~ Henry Rowland
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- Guitar ~ Anthony "Tony"
Mottola
- Guitar ~ Danny Perri
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- Drums ~ Terry Snyder
- Drums ~ Sol Gubin
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- Bass ~ Robert Haggart
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- Produced
by Charles Grean and Lee Schapiro
- with
Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra & Ray Charles
- Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A, 24th
Street, New York City
- Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson.
- Recorded April 9th,
16th, 23rd
& May 21st, 1959
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- Notes: ~ originally
a piano solo titled "Chanson" to which words
were added
- in 1927 by Dailey Paskman, Sigmund Spaeth and
Irving Caesar and re-titled
- "Chansonette." The
final version with new title, lyrics, and some music
changes,
- was introduced by Allan Jones in the 1937
Hollywood musical "Firefly."
- Allan Jones, with
whom the song is most associated, recorded it for Victor.
- The song was also heard in Hollywood musicals "Crazy
House," 1943,
- and "Anchors Aweigh" in
1945.
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- A Perry Como
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