It climbed to number 19 and then fell back exhausted, he said. This casual performance become known as bad penny blues and lyttelton recalled that, in an unlikely journey, it climbed to no 18 in the hit parade and then fell back exhausted. A clip from bbc arenas the strange story of joe meek 1991. Check out bad penny blues by humphrey lyttelton on amazon music.
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In 1956 his simple riff composition bad penny blues became the first jazz record to reach the top 20. By way of contrast, the rather more recent 2cd retrospective set bad penny blues subtitled his 52 finest, which covers 19481957, shows just how the job should be done the material is ordered chronologically, full personnel details are given, and there are excellent liner notes by digby fairweather. It was for parlophone that humph recorded his own bad penny blues which, in 1956, was the first british jazz record to get into the top twenty. It was recorded again by lyttelton with elkie brooks in 2002, with lyrics added, on their album trouble in mind. Humphrey lytteltons bad penny blues music the guardian. He foregrounded the boogie woogie piano, turned up. Bad penny blues is a seminal work of record production, even though humph hated it, it made him a chart topper. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, lyttelton became a popular figure of the trad jazz revival, leading his own eightpiece band, which recorded a hit single, bad penny blues, in 1956. Lake e lacd 72 humphrey lyttelton delving back with humph 194849 esquire e esq 310 humphrey lyttelton delving back with humph esquire e ep 111 humphrey lyttelton and his band london jazz e 1. Humph plays standards humphrey lyttelton to stream in hifi, or to download in true cd quality on. Bad penny blues 19551956, an album by humphrey lyttelton on spotify we and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes.
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Big band, easy listening humphrey lyttelton and his band bad penny blues vinyl discogs. With 1956s selfpenned bad penny blues, lyttelton scored british jazzs firstever top 20 u. Bad penny blues by humphrey lyttelton from the album sizzlin hot skiffle. The beatless lady madonna sample of humphrey lyttletons. The best of humphrey lyttelton humphrey lyttelton songs. Five by five, echoin the blues, beale street blues, ruritanian blues, biography. The hit enabled to humph to plan and build his own house in arkley, hertfordshire. Jun 16, 2011 humphrey lyttelton s bad penny blues 20 april 1956. Also in 1956 the legendary trumpeter louis armstrong appeared at the humphrey lyttelton club now the 100 club with his. Humphrey lyttelton and his band bad penny blues vinyl. Ruritanian blues original recording remastered humphrey lyttelton.
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Bad penny blues is a fast instrumental blues written by humphrey lyttelton and recorded with his band in london on 20 april 1956. Lyttelton, humphrey best of humphrey lyttelton amazon. Bad penny blues by humphrey lyttelton sheet music scribd. Bad penny blues humphrey lyttelton and his band, 1956 lyttelton 2b. Prior to that, the band had already made records on his own london jazz label, and had accompanied the great sidney bechet in an historic session for melodisc in 1949. The official producer was denis preston but it was the then rather unknown joe meek as engineer who gave the recording its fresh sound. Bad penny blues 19551956 by humphrey lyttelton on spotify. Humphrey lyttelton vinyl record, humphrey lyttelton. String quartet intermediate digital download arranged by brian hardy.
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