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# Title Principal Artiste Composers Lyricist / Date written Place Date recorded Matrix Label&cat.no. Additional Information
611 I Heard SHO Don Redman / Irving Mills w/m `32 London July 18, 1932 CA-12892-2 Col CB-483, Col DO-805oz Savoy Hotel Orpheans): Carrol Gibbons (piano) & Howard Jacobs (alto sax) directing Bill Shakespeare & Billy Higgs (trumpets); Lew Davis (trombone); Paul Fenoulhet (trombone / arrangement); George Melachrino (clarinet, alto sax, violin); Laurie Payne ill replaced by Bob Wise (clarinet, alto & baritone sax); George Smith (tenor sax); Ben Frankel (violins); Sid Bright (2nd piano); Harry Sherman (guitar); Jack Evetts (string bass); Rudy Starita (drums, vibraphone, xylophone); Al Bowlly (vocals).

I Heard

I Heard

(Don Redman / Irving Mills)


The Savoy Hotel Orpheans (Carroll Gibbons)


I heard, yes, I heard
Though it wasn't told to me, till I heard
Oh, I heard, yes, I heard
Though they didn't buzzed to me, till I heard

Well now he said that she said
But he didn't say where she got it
And they said that she said
That the Law was gonna stop it

Oh, I heard, yes, I heard
Though it wasn't told to me, I only heard