78 RPM - Lee Wiley - I've Got A Crush On You / Someone To Watch Over Me - Liberty Music Shop - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lee Wiley
Label:	Liberty Music Shop
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	L 282
Date:	Dec 1939
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lee Wiley	I've Got A Crush On You	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	10.0 Rate
B	Lee Wiley	Someone To Watch Over Me	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	10.0 Rate

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Part of Lee Wiley Album: Eight Show Tunes From Scores By George Gershwin
A Side From "Strike Up The Band" 1930 - with Max Kaminsky's Orchestra
B Side From "Oh Kay" 1926 - with organ by Maurice (aka Fats Waller)

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BigBadBluesMan 21st Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 21st Feb 2015



slholzer 10th Jan 2015		The Liberty Music Shop recordings were remarkable for their class and excellent taste while riding the cutting edge of music of its day. Lee Wiley was one of its chiefest treasures. That being said, if you liked this version of I've Got A Crush on You, you should look up the version she did in 1951 on Columbia with Joe Bushkin and Bobby Hackett. As talented as Max Kaminsky and Pee Wee Russell were, Bobby Hackett is still far and away the more sympathetic accompanist and his solos have more to say as well. Staying in the Liberty Music Shop line, I believe you can also find Lee Wiley with accompaniments by Bunny Berigan. Berigan being also Kaminsky's superior in nearly every respect, I think those tracks would be well worth finding.



LouisSidney 21st Feb 2014		The Gershwin tracks are all here, presented in an excellent way.



xiphophilos 21st Feb 2014		Very nice! I hadn't heard either of these songs before even though I own several Fats Waller albums on LP.



fixbutte 21st Feb 2014		I didn't have the opportunity to listen to Lee Wiley's whole Gershwin Album, but these two sides with Fats Waller's participation are in the Internet Archive of 78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings, so everybody can listen to them for free. Both sides are fantastic, featuring the sensual and emotional vocal of one of the most important early jazz singers. On "I've Got A Crush On You" there is only Wiley with Fats Waller on piano for the first verses before the full band joins in, with pleasant contributions by Max Kaminsky on trumpet and Pee Wee Russell on clarinet. It is the B-side, "Someone To Watch Over Me", however, that is truly spectacular because Lee Wiley's vocal is solely accompanied by Fats Waller's restrained pipe organ. This impressive recording was an all-time favorite of Artie Shaw (Lee Wiley was also his favorite singer), and it was incidentally played at his funeral on Jan 9, 2005, at the close of the service.