Bye Bye Blackbird
Words - Mort Dixon
Music - Ray Henderson
Performed by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra
Xylophone solo by Harry Sigman
Recorded May 9, 1926, New York
Violinist and bandleader, Leo Reisman was born in Boston in 1897. He began studying the violin at age ten and by his early teens was performing with hotel bands and in 1919 formed his own band.
Dubbed The String Quartet of Dance Bands by Jerome Kern, the Leo Reisman Orchestra featured pianists Eddy Duchin, Harold Arlen, Nat Brandywynne, Johnny Green vocalists Fred Astaire, Lee Wiley and Dinah Shore, trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Bubba Miley and cornetist Johnny Dunn.
From 1921 through 1941, the Reisman Orchestra recorded nearly 80 hits on the pop charts including the #1 recordings of The Wedding of the Painted Doll (1929), Paradise (1932), Night and Day (1932), Stormy Weather (1933) and The Continental (You Kiss While Youre Dancing) (1934).
Leo Reisman died on December 18, 1961 in New York City.
"Bye Bye Blackbird" is a song published in 1926 by the American composer Ray Henderson and lyricist Mort Dixon. It is considered a popular standard and was first recorded by Gene Austin in 1926. It was the No. 16 song of 1926 according to Pop Culture Madness. John Coltrane won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist for his rendition of the song. Recordings of the song often include only the chorus; the verses are far less known.
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