78 RPM - Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night (Lonnie Johnson's Theme Song) / What A Woman - King - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lonnie Johnson
Label:	King
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	4201
Date:	Jan 1948
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$33
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PRICE GUIDE

$33

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lonnie Johnson	Tomorrow Night (Lonnie Johnson's Theme Song)		Rate
B	Lonnie Johnson	What A Woman	Lonnie Johnson	Rate

Notes

Composers of "Tomorrow Night" (uncredited): Sam Coslow and Will Grosz

BB Jan 17, 1948, p. 37 (King ad - Current Releases)
BB Feb 28, 1948, p. 32 (R&B chart entry - week ending Feb 20)
BB #1 R&B (7 weeks), #19 Pop - Tomorrow Night

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Comments and Reviews


historyofcountrymusic 6th Aug 2023		Added label variant where the spelling of “piano” was corrected on the A-side; I assume the misspelled one posted is earlier.



fixbutte 21st Aug 2015		Lonnie Johnson's "Tomorrow Night" was one of the biggest R&B hits of the 1940s, seven weeks at #1 on Billboard's Race charts and crossing over to #19 Pop. On the record label it is fully titled "Tomorrow Night (Lonnie Johnson's Theme Song)" with no explicit composer credits, implying that it is a Lonnie Johnson composition - which it wasn't. As stated in the Billboard article of May 1948 now uploaded here, it is identical in title, lyric and music with a song written ten years before by Sam Coslow and Will Grosz. The song was copyrighted on Sep 12, 1939 (Coslow, words; Grosz, music) and recorded by Horace Heidt in the same year. On later single reissues of "Tomorrow Night" by King, and there were many of them, the correct composer credits were added.



BigBadBluesMan 5th Apr 2015