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Mood Indigo
- Music by
Duke Ellington and
Barney Bigard
- with lyrics by
Mitchell Parish , 1931
- Mills Music
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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 3:10
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- Recorded
May
21st, 1959 ~
Matrix No.
K2PB-2335 Take 5
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- SESSION MUSICIANS
- May 21, 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 ~ Philip Zolkind
- Sax ~ Abraham Richman
- Sax ~ Stanley Webb
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- Trumpet ~ James Maxwell
- Trumpet ~ James Milazzo
- Trumpet ~ Ernest Royal
- Trumpet ~ Carl Poole
- Trumpet ~ Melvin Davis
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- Trombone ~ Robert Alexander
- Trombone ~ Chauncey Welsch
- Trombone ~ John D'agostino
- Trombone ~ Richard Hixon
- Trombone ~ Robert Byrne
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- Piano ~ Henry Rowland
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- Guitar ~ Allen Hanlon
- Guitar ~ Danny Perri
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- Drums ~ Terry Snyder
- Drums ~ Milton Schlesinger
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- Bass ~ Arnold Fishkin
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- Tuba ~ Don Butterfield
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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: ~ this Edward Kennedy
"Duke" Ellington and Albany "Barney" Bigard instrumental was
- introduced in 1930 under the
title "Dreamy Blues" and performed by the
Ellington Orchestra.
- The song became a standard after the
lyric was re-titled and written by Mitchell Parish under
- a
"for hire" contract with the publisher, Mills
Music ( Irving Mills ), for which he received neither
- credit or royalties for his contribution. Ellington
recorded the new version for Victor in 1931 and
- later for
Decca. Among the many recordings are: The Boswell Sisters for
Brunswick; Cab Calloway
- for Perfect; Jimmie Lunceford for Decca; Clyde McCoy
for Columbia; Lee Morse for Columbia; Dinah
- Shore for Victor; Sonny Greer
for Capitol; The Como recording was done in full stereophonic
sound,
- recorded in May, 1959, and benefits from a big spectacular sound
stage. 1958 and 1959 were big
- years for both Perry and the recording industry. Como's career was at an
all-time high for both
- television and recordings and at
the same time the industry was in full transition from
black and
- white to color television and from monaural to
stereophonic sound recordings. Along with his busy
- weekly
television show, Perry found time to record four major record albums, "Saturday
Night with
- Mr. C." and "When You Come to the
End of the Day" and "Como Swings" and "Season's
Greetings"
- which at
the time were released in both monaural and stereophonic
versions. They were released
- in long play and
extended play album formats.
-
- A Perry Como
Discography
- & Digital Companion
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