"And The Angels Sing" - Bon Bon/Jan Savitt (1939)

Описание: Bon Bon (vocal) with Jan Savitt And His Tophatters. Recorded in New York City on April 1st 1939.
The song was written in 1938 by Ziggy Elman (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics). Ziggy Elman (trumpeter in the Benny Goodman Orchestra) created this song out of an old klezmer wedding dance.
Another wonderful recording was made also in 1939 by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra with vocal by Martha Tilton.
The popular singer Bon Bon alias George Tunnell (1912 - 1975) was one of the first African American vocalists to perform with a white band. And this was the band of Jan Savitt (1907 - 1948), a Russian (born as Jacob Savetnick in Shumsk, Russian Empire) American violinist, composer, arranger and very successful Big Band Leader of the Swing Era. He started playing classic violin for several years in Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and was called later "The Stokowski of Swing". Savitt created the "Shuffle Rhythm" which remained his trademark.
The fotos in the video show Jan Savitt and Bon Bon at the end of the 1930s.
This DECCA record is played on an Electrola table top Gramophone, model 130 from ca. 1930!