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ANOTHER REALLY GREAT CLASSIC FROM FRED ASTAIRE 

Cole Porter's 

"NIGHT AND DAY" 

THIS TIME RECORDED WITH LEO REISMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA

 b/w  I'VE GOT YOU ON MY MIND

 ISSUED IN NOVEMBER 1933 

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you

Night and day, you are the one

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun

Whether near to me, or far

It's no matter darling where you are

I think of you

Day and night, night and day, why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go

In the roaring traffic's boom

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you

Day and night, night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Until you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day

Dubbed "the String Quartet of Dance Bands" by composer Jerome Kern, the Leo Reisman Orchestra also gained fame as a launching pad for talents including Fred Astaire, Eddy Duchin, Harold Arlen and Dinah Shore. 

According to the Big Bands Database, Reisman was born in Boston in 1897 and began violin studies at age ten; within just two years, he was already performing professionally. A series of stints in local hotel bands predated a tenure with the Baltimore Symphony, and in 1919 Reisman formed his own big band, which soon after accepted a residency at New York's Hotel Brunswick. The orchestra remained at the Brunswick for a decade, in 1929 moving to the Central Park Casino; at this point the lineup included Duchin and fellow pianist Nat Brandywynne, as well as vocalist Lee Wiley. 

Upon taking up residency at the famed Waldorf Astoria, by 1932 the Reisman Orchestra's lineup swelled to include Astaire and Arlen; other alumni of note include cornetist Johnny Dunn as well as trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Bubba Miley, the latter a future member of Duke Ellington's group. Dinah Shore, meanwhile, sang with the band during their 1939 stay at the Strand Theatre. By the following decade, however, Reisman's lush, sophisticated style had fallen out of favor in the wake of swing's new popularity; he died on December 18, 1961.

DISC DETAILS

UK HMV B 6398  10"  78rpm   (1933)

CONDITION  - E-

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