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Ottawa Ellington ’90 – Concert 1 part 2

December 26, 2019 12:31 / Leave a comment

In part 2 of the concert, Alice Babs joins the orchestra.

She sings four songs and starts approprietly with I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart, which is  the title of the whole concert.  Then follows three songs from the early 1940 period – Warm Valley, I Don’t Mind and Me and You. They seems all to be in arrangements by Andrew Homzy.

Warm Valley got words by the lyricist Bob Russell. It must have been no later than mid-fifties since the first vocal of Warm Valley was recorded by Abbey Lindcoln in 1956. Babs recorded it with Nils Lindberg for the Alice Babs Serenading Duke Ellington (1975) and Far Away Star (1958) albums.

I Don’t Mind was recorded by Ellington and Ivie Anderson at the last Ellington session for RCA-Victor in 1942. In 1945, it was a feature for Marie Ellington. Billy Strayhorn set the words to the Ellington melody.

 

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