all of me

This jazz standard has been recorded over two thousand times. Composer Gerald Marks and lyricist Seymour Simons wrote 'All of Me' together in Detroit in 1931. Marks took the song to New York with enough money to stay for one week. When he played the song for vaudeville star Belle Baker, she began to sob uncontrollably because the lyrics reminded her of her recently deceased husband. She performed the song live on the radio, the first of numerous versions recorded in the years that followed. "From then on," said Marks, "she plugged my song and made it a hit all by herself." In 2000, 'All of Me' received the Towering Song Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Ruth Etting recorded her version in December of 1931.

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra with Mildred Bailey had the first hit version in January of 1932, when it spent three weeks at number one.

Louis Armstrong took it to number one that same year and helped to make the song a standard.

Billie Holiday

Benny Goodman

Ella Fitzgerald

Count Basie and his orchestra went to number fourteen in 1943.

Dinah Washington

Frank Sinatra did several versions of the song; he took it to number twenty-one in 1948.

Django Reinhardt

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson

Sidney Bechet & Teddy Buckner

('Disse Alguém') João Gilberto with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia

Johnny Ray hit number twelve with his version in 1952.

Willie Nelson had a number three country hit with his version.

'All of Me' also gave the name to a movie starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin

'Muppet Show' featuring the Greasy Gopher

'Sanford & Son' with Redd Foxx and Scatman Crothers

Harry Connick, Jr.

NOFX

You took my kisses and all my love

You taught me how to care

Am I to be just remnant of a one side love affair

All you took

I gladly gave

There is nothing left for me to save

All of me

Why not take all of me

Can't you see

I'm no good without you

Take my lips

I want to loose them

Take my arms

I'll never use them

Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry

How can I go on dear without you

You took the part that once was my heart

So why not take all of me

funky butt buddy bolden blues

Charles "Buddy" Bolden

(September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931)

King Bolden was one of the originators of jazz, combining gospel and blues with ragtime; but he also brought the funk. He would adapt the music he heard around him to his cornet. The groundbreaking 'Big Four' marching band rhythm of his band was enormously popular in New Orleans during the first decade of the twentieth century. He lived the high life until he was hospitalized at the age of thirty at the Louisiana State Insane Asylum at Jackson after drinking himself into acute alcoholic psychosis. He spent the rest of his life there. Bolden was buried in an unmarked grave in Holt Cemetery in New Orleans. There are no known recordings of Bolden; but 'Funky Butt' is one of his most famous songs.

'The Big Noise' from Ken Burns' 'Jazz'.

Jelly Roll Morton

Barrelhouse Jazzband

Sounds Of Freedom Blues from 'LifeStyle TV'

New Orleans Jass Band

bix beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke

(March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931)

Self-taught jazz pioneer whose unique style was precursor to the 'cool jazz' movement. He was a legend in his own time for his improvization and beautiful tone on the cornet as well as for his heavy drinking. Bix was playing the piano at the age of three and took up the cornet ten years later. He was expelled from the exclusive Lake Forest Academy for breaking curfew to catch jazz shows in Chicago. Beiderbecke joined the Wolverine Orchestra late in 1923, and the seven-man group first played a speakeasy called the Stockton Club. A year later he left them to join Jean Goldkette's Orchestra; but his inability to read music made that a short affair. After a short stint at the University of Iowa, Bix followed Frankie Trumbauer to St. Louis and then Detroit, reconnecting with Goldkette as part of his "Famous Fourteen". When that group dissolved most of them joined Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, a very popular outfit that mixed jazz and classical. He also recorded with Trumbauer and guitarist, Eddie Lang, under the name of Tram, Bix, and Eddie. The relentless touring schedule exacerbated Bix's alcoholism and on November 30, 1928 he suffered a breakdown. Spending time in and out of rehabilitation as his health gradually declined, Bix continued to play and drink with equal fervor. On Thursday, August 6, 1931, Beiderbecke died in his apartment, #1G, 43-30 46th Street, in Sunnyside, Queens, at the age of twenty eight during an alcoholic seizure. The official cause of death was lobar pneumonia and edema of the brain.




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The slow-tempo jazz classic 'Singing The Blues' by The Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer Orchestra. It starts with a sax solo by Trumbauer. Then comes Bix's cornet solo. Finally, a short clarinet solo by Jimmy Dorsey. The guitarist on this track is Eddie Lang.

'I'm Coming, Virginia' with the Trumbauer Orchestra. Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, Don Murray, Bill Rank, Doc Ryker, Irving Riskin, Eddie Lang, and Chauncey Morehouse.

'In A Mist' is one of a handful of his piano compositions but the only one he recorded.

'Oh Baby' with the Wolverine Orchestra with Bix Biederbecke, Al Gandee, Bob Gillette, Vic Moore, George Johnson, Dick Vonyow and Jimmy Hartwell

Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra doing 'I'd Rather Be The Girl In Your Arms (Than The Girl In Your Dreams)' with Bix Beiderbecke, Fuzzy Farrar, Ray Lodwig, Bill Rank, Speigle Willcox, Don Murray, Doc Ryker, Frank Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Paul Mertz, Howdy Quicksell, Eddie Lang, Steve Brown, Chauncey Morehouse, Bill Challis, Frank Bessinger, Frank Magine, Joe Griffith, Frank Marvin.

'Jazz Me Blues' by Bix Beiderbecke & The Wolverines.

'Georgia (On My Mind)' with Bix Beiderbecke, Ray Lodwig, Jack Teagarden, Boyce Cullen, Jimmy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell, Irving Brodsky, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Min Leibrook, Chauncey Morehouse, and Hoagy Carmichael on September 15, 1930.