Скачать или смотреть 1st RECORDING OF: (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons - Deek Watson & his Brown Dots (1945)

Joe King sings lead vocal on this first of two somewhat different mid-1940s arrangements of the ballad that were recorded by this group, headed by former Ink Spots member Ivory “Deek” Watson. It was more than a year later that the song became a mainstream hit, due in large part to the chart-topping version by The King Cole Trio    • 1947 HITS ARCHIVE: (I Love You) For Sentim...  

For the complex story of Watson’s drawn-out (and bitter) legal entaglements with Bill Kenny over usage of the ‘Ink Spots’ name and of the Brown Dots reincarnations as The Sentimentalists and The 4 Tunes, I highly recommend the following page from Marv Goldberg’s R&B Notebooks: http://www.uncamarvy.com/BrownDots/br...

The original 78rpm single was issued on Manor 1009 - Sentimental Reasons (Deek Watson-Pat Best) by Deek Watson and his Brown Dots

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