tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post3957638510909855863..comments2023-10-28T05:17:36.517-05:00Comments on Wired For Sound: Roy Lee Brown on Swing 101Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7520743085834461738.post-38976605579682420432009-08-22T16:56:45.342-05:002009-08-22T16:56:45.342-05:00Roy Lee told me that they weren't aware of the...Roy Lee told me that they weren't aware of the Swing version being issued until later -- it certainly wasn't something that Mercer cleared with them before doing it. He also was very irritated that the flip side of "Ice Man" was the maudlin song about mother sung by Earl Milliorn. He thought that coupling the risque song with the ballad of home & hearth was stupid and commercial suicide...not that the record would have sold much, anyway -- To me, though this recording has some of the spirit of the earlier bands (a lot of that owing to Cliff Kendrick's drumming and his urging Roy Lee on -- Roy Lee said that "Cliff really sold my band"), it sounds very much of it's time rather than something from earlier. I know you have long been annoyed by the separation of the music and the band into "prewar" and "postwar" categories, and in some ways you have a strong case. But to me there is a fairly marked difference in sounds from before the war and after, and that hiatus in recording (among other things that came with the war) is more than just a convenience of categorization -- a lot of things changed.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15887737884087502909noreply@blogger.com