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Vernon Dilworth's Top Cats / Lucky Millender's Orchestra - Shorty / Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back FLAC album


Performer: Vernon Dilworth's Top Cats / Lucky Millender's Orchestra
Genre: Blues
Title: Shorty / Who Said Shorty Wasn't Coming Back
Country: UK
Released: 11 Oct 2010
Style: Rhythm & Blues
Label: Jukebox Jam Series
Catalog Number: JBJ 1008
FLAC version ZIP size: 1829 mb
MP3 version ZIP size: 1048 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 2006 mb
Rating: 4.8
Votes: 578

Tracklist

1Lucky Millender's OrchestraSaid Shorty Wasn't Coming Back
Written By – Henry Glover / Sally Nix
2Vernon Dilworth's Top CatsShorty
Written By – Qudellis Martyn

Credits

  • VocalsVernon Dilworth (tracks: A)

Notes

Two sides of jump n’ jive with ‘Shorty’, a fictional character who ran through a number of early Rhythm & Blues and Jazz Vocal sides way back in the ‘40s. Shorty was the fella who avoided the draft and reaped the rewards with many a lonely housewife while their respective husbands were away on duty in WWII. This scandalous lout was first introduced to the public by the prolific bandleader Lucky Millinder with his 1946 hit ‘Shorty’s Got To Go’.
On this single we feature one of Millinder’s own answer songs, the snappy ‘Who Said Shorty Wasn’t Coming Back’, whilst on the top-side we have selected a superb but scarcely heard early 50s rendition of the song by the relatively unknown West Coast vocalist Vernon Dilworth.
Dilworth’s vocal delivery has all the hip and laid back swagger of the big city cat on the corner, and his band’s hot-stepping accompaniment is the height of jazzy sophistication - small wonder they were named ‘The Top Cats’.

Safe to say that both sides really cook and we’re also proud to offer them both on 45rpm vinyl for the very first time!

(Quoted from www.jazzmanrecords.co.uk)