Organ Grinder's Swing

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"Organ Grinder's Swing" is a song composed by Will Hudson, with lyrics credited to Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills (Mills was the publisher), published in 1936. It became associated with the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra.[1] Hudson based the "Organ Grinder's Swing" on the nursery rhyme "I Love Coffee, I Love Tea".[2]

Recordings

Mills Brothers. It was also featured in a 1937 Popeye
short Organ Grinder's Swing.

Organist Jimmy Smith recorded "Organ Grinder's Swing" on his 1965 album Organ Grinder Swing. Vibraphonist Milt Jackson recorded it again in 1976 live at the Kosei Nenkin, Tokyo, with Teddy Edwards, Cedar Walton, Ray Brown and Billy Higgins.

In popular culture

In the 1935 film

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson tap dance to the tune in order to get enough money for train fare to Washington, DC.[3] Ina Ray Hutton and her Melodears performed it in a medley with "Stardust" in their 1937 short Swing Hutton Swing.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7890-0914-2
    . Google Book Search. Retrieved on November 15, 2009.
  2. ^ "Ella Fitzgerald: The Decca Years (7 of 9)".
  3. ^ "The Littlest Rebel". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. ISBN 978-0-8195-6967-7
    .
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