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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 18:13:44 -0500
From: John Galvin
Subject: Big Walter/Tommy Dorsey

I was listening to "Sun Records Harmonica Classics" today--principally, for
the purposes of comparing this early version of Big Walter's "Easy" with
another, later version. But I went on to listen to the Dr. Ross selections,
which begin with "Jukebox Boogie". I was already familiar with this piece as
"Walter's Boogie" (from the CD, "Can't Keep Loving You") and in the
knowledge that this piece was not an original composition of Big Walter's.

In any case, I was reminded that, only last week, I had happened on a radio
program specializing in swing music. The programmer announced a piece, whose
title I forget but which contained the word "boogie" and was played by
Tommy Dorsey. It began with the same "tongue-flutter" intro as "Walter's
Boogie" and--if you ignored the orchestration--could have been a source of
inspiration for, or imitation of, Big Walter's treatment of that same piece.
They seemed that close (though humility obliges me to suggest that I could,
of course, be very wrong).

I suspect that Tommy Dorsey's recording pre-dates Big Walter's and I further
suspect that Tommy Dorsey's version would have received much wider play. But
I would like to know if anyone else has heard Dorsey's version; whether or
not he or she might know something of the history of the piece; and whether
or not Tommy Dorsey and Big Walter ever met or spoke of one another.

Thank you for your patient, unreproaching responses, in advance,

John

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