Скачать или смотреть 1st RECORDING OF: Topsy - Count Basie (1937)

Most familiar to later generations via the best-selling 1958 Cozy Cole recording (   • Topsy, Pt. 2 - Cozy Cole (1958)   ), “Topsy” is heard here in its original form, as arranged for the Basie band by the tune’s composer Eddie Durham. Durham also wrote a somewhat similar chart for Benny Goodman a year later (listen here:    • 1938 Benny Goodman - Topsy   )

Audio source from CD, the original 78rpm was issued on Decca 1770 - Topsy (Eddie Durham) by Count Basie & his Orchestra, recorded in NYC August 9, 1937. .
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