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BOB DOROUGH "DEVIL MAY CARE" LP BETHLEHEM BCP-11 1956 (ORIG DG MONO) VG++ to EX

Sold Date: March 27, 2018
Start Date: February 9, 2018
Final Price: $75.00 $60.00 (USD)
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BOB DOROUGH "DEVIL MAY CARE" LP BETHLEHEM BCP-11 1956 (ORIG DG MONO) EX

 


VINYL:  VG++ to EXCELLENT - ORIGINAL MONO PRESS -  DEEP GROOVE - ONLY A HANDFUL OF SUBTLE POPS IN SOFTER SPOTS. Really NICE Copy!


JACKET: VG++ Nice Glossy Cover (Punch Hole upper right corner - small “inspected 6 LS” stamp on top back but Clean Front and back) see pics
 

From 1949–1952 Dorough was a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, and on the side played piano at local jazz clubs. He was hired for a tour by boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, who had interrupted his boxing career to pursue music. In Paris from 1954–1955 he worked as a musician and musical director, recording with jazz vocalist Blossom Dearie.[6]
  When Dorough returned to the U.S., he moved to Los Angeles, where he performed in various clubs, including a job between sets by comedian Lenny Bruce
   His first album, Devil May Care, came out in 1956 and contained a version of Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite" with lyrics added by Dorough. Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis liked the album, and in 1962 when Columbia Records asked Davis to make a Christmas record, he sought out Dorough to provide lyrics and vocals. Blue Xmas appeared on the compilation album Jingle Bell Jazz. During that session Dorough recorded another song for Davis, "Nothing Like You," which appeared a few years later at the end of the Sorcerer album, making Dorough one of the few musicians with a vocal performance on a Miles Davis record.



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