78 RPM - Art Tatum Trio - The Man I Love / Dark Eyes - Comet - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Art Tatum Trio
Label:	Comet
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	T 1
Date:	Jun 1944
Format:	12"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$15
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PRICE GUIDE

$15

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Art Tatum Trio	The Man I Love	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	Rate
B	Art Tatum Trio	Dark Eyes		Rate

Notes

Disc 1 of Comet Album 2 "Inspirations in Jazz by Art Tatum"

Art Tatum, piano; Slam Stewart, bass; Tiny Grimes, guitar.

A runout: T-1-A-3 ²; B runout: T-1-B-3.
Recorded New York, NY, May 1, 1944.

Billboard, Jun. 17, 1944, page 18: Distributor's ad.

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Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 25th Feb 2018		"Dark Eyes" has no composer credits here because it is often thought to be a traditional Russian/Ukrainian folk song. It was originally a poem by Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka, first published under the Russian title "Очи чёрные" (Ochi chyornye) in the author's own Russian translation in Literaturnaya Gazeta on January 17, 1843. Apparently, it was put to music twice; first the melody of Florian Hermann's "Valse Hommage" was used. In addition, the Wikipedia entry on the song claims that there is a later melody composed by Italian-born British composer Adalgiso Ferraris (sheet music (1932)), and that it is that one that was picked up and recorded by Al Bowlly and other British dance bands in the 1930s. I myself have checked out a number of different versions now, but they all seem to use the same melody. So I wonder if what Ferraris copyrighted in 1932 was simply his arrangement of the song. Art Tatum (1944): A version by A.N. Bychkova from ca. 1911: http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=23225 Here's Theodor Chaliapin with a choir conducted by D. Aristov (recorded Paris 1927, released on His Master's Voice DB3463 and Victor 15236): Pola Negri (1931): http://www.russian-records.com/details.php?image_id=2695 A Krazy Cat cartoon version (1933): Al Bowlly (1939): Django Reinhardt (as "Le Yeux Noirs", 1940):