I Won't Tell a Soul I Love You
Andy Kirk was never a major musician (in fact he never really soloed), arra… Read Full Bio ↴Andy Kirk was never a major musician (in fact he never really soloed), arranger or personality yet he was a successful big bandleader in the 1930s and '40s. He started playing bass sax and tuba in Denver with George Morrison's band in 1918. In 1925 he moved to Dallas where he played with Terrence Holder's Dark Clouds of Joy. In 1929 he took over leadership of the band (which was renamed Andy Kirk's Twelve Clouds of Joy) and moved to Kansas City. During 1929-30 they recorded some excellent hot performances with such players as pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams, violinist Claude Williams and trumpeter Edgar "Puddinghead" Battle. Surprisingly Kirk's Orchestra was off records entirely during 1931-35 but in 1936 (the year it relocated to New York) it immediately had a pop hit in "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" featuring the high voice of singer Pha Terrell. In future years such fine soloists as tenor saxophonist Dick Wilson, the early electric guitarist Floyd Smith, Don Byas, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Howard McGhee (1942-43), Jimmy Forrest and even Fats Navarro and (briefly) Charlie Parker would be among Kirk's sidemen. However Mary Lou Williams was the most important musician in the band, both as a soloist and as an arranger. In 1948 Andy Kirk broke up the band (which had recorded mostly for Decca) and in later years ran a hotel and served as an official in the Musicians' Union. A lone "reunion" date in 1956 featured the classic charts but almost none of the original sidemen.
I Won't Tell a Soul I Love You
Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy Lyrics
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All The Jive Is Gone The latest crave, the country's rave is jive, jive, jive, Th…
Christopher Columbus Mister Christopher Columbus Sailed the sea without a compas…
Clouds Clouds are only dewdrops that once kissed a rose Clouds are…
I I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
I Don'T Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You I need your love so badly, I love you, oh,…
I Surrender Dear Pride, sad, splendid liar, Sworn enemy of love Kept my…
I'll Get By I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
Love Is The Thing There is no greater love Than what I feel for you No…
Lover Come Back to Me You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
There Is No Greater Love There is no greater love Than what I feel for you No…
Until The Real Thing Comes Along I'd work for you, I'd even slave for you I'd be…
You Rascal You I'll get by As long as I have you Though there be…
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Great music!
@Trombonology
I've always adored Andy Kirk's versatile orchestra. In his renowned and probably still in-print Swing Era tome, The Big Bands , famed Metronome critic, George T. Simon, wrote of detractors of Pha (pronounced Fay ) Terrell referring to the romantic vocalist as "Pha Terrible." How mean! Yeah, maybe he did get a little too much mileage out of his ending on a high note stylistic device -- listen for it here, if you're unacquainted -- but he had a beautiful tone and, so importantly, always sounded like he meant it. Of course, this great band's biggest asset was the subject of one of their records, "The Lady Who Swings The Band": pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou Williams, one of my musical idols. Listen to her behind Pha and after his first chorus.