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

Tracklist

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

Credits

• Vocals – Vernon 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)