# | Title | Principal Artiste | Composers | Lyricist / Date written | Place | Date recorded | Matrix | Label&cat.no. | Additional Information |
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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). |
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