Will Osborne & His Orchestra - You've Got Something (1936) [Instrumental]

Image & transfers courtesy of Jeremy Passarelli.

Otherwise sang by Dick Rogers on this session.

On November 18th, 1936, the Osborne orchestra would go into the New York studios of the Associated Transcription Service, for Osborne's second known transcription date in his career. This time with his Slide Music based orchestra, who hadn't recorded since the Fall of 1935, over a year prior, with a hit record on Columbia of That's What You Think. This time having a monster of a session this day in either a large studio room, or an actual theatre stage. Here, the band complete with it's two star singers, the twins of Dick & Dorothy Rogers, record over 25 songs over the full day. Instrumentals, vocals of the full band, of Will, of Dorothy by herself, Dick by himself, and of course both Rogers' together. But what hasn't been addressed discographically in this endeavor of beautiful and swingin' songs recorded for radio broadcast is, that several instrumental tracks of songs sang were ALSO made too, such as tracks 1, 2, and 4. The arrangements are wonderful to hear here.

Jeremy happened upon this unreleased test pressing, almost certainly originating from the Associated studios there, in which they debated making an issuing of these four instrumental takes for stations to use. However, as far as can be seen in discographies, actual releases of this by Associated for stations never materialized. Here we get songs in which don't just sound like something's missing without the vocals. The band fills in naturally. Going to imply that Osborne had at least two arrangements of most songs, one of which for singing where the middle third of the song has very light instrumentation and intonation, and the other part where various soloists of each section, and sometimes the sections themselves take over and "sing it" themselves. Gerald Bittick never fails when arranging for Osborne. (And being left to his own devices that is!).

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