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Artist: Erskine Hawkins
Author: Erskine Hawkins/William Johnson/Julian Dash/Buddy Feyne
Label: Bluebird
Year: 1939
Trumpet player & bandleader; his theme song.
Covers:
Glenn Miller [n°1 US]
Dud Bascomb [the trumpet solo on the original]
Joe Jackson [on his Jumpin' Jive lp; crediting Glenn Miller]
Song about the Nixon building on the corner of 20th Street and Easley Avenue in Birmingham, AL, the main social hub for the local black community in the 1920's & '30s. Hawkins was leader of the houseband.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)