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When Your Lover Has Gone (Einar Aaron Swan)
From the Wikipedia profile of the songwriter:
Einar Aaron Swan (born Einar (Eino) William Swan) (March 20, 1903 – August 8, 1940) was an American musician, arranger and composer. Born of Finnish parents who had emigrated to the United States at the turn of the century, he was the second of nine children.
Born in Massachusetts, his father was a keen amateur musician and before Einar Swan had entered his teens, he played violin, clarinet, saxophone and piano. At the age of 16 he was already playing in his own dance band, Swanie’s Serenaders, and travelling around Massachusetts for three years. Swan’s main instrument had been the violin but during this period he switched to alto saxophone.
Around 1924, the bandleader Sam Lanin invited Swan to join his orchestra at New York’s famed Roseland Ballroom, and Swan played with leading musicians such as cornettist Red Nichols, and members of The Charleston Chasers Vic Berton (drums) and Joe Tarto (tuba), with whom he soon started composing and arranging material for the orchestra. He also started arranging for the other resident band at the Roseland Ballroom, Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra.
After five months with Lanin, Swan joined Vincent Lopez’s band in 1925 and went on tour to England. The band at that time also featured Mike Mosiello, Xavier Cugat and his old bandmate Joe Tarto.
Shortly thereafter, the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra released “Trail of Dreams” credited to Swan and Klage.
Around 1930 Swan stopped working as a musician and concentrated on arrangements, starting to work for radio programmes and bandleaders such as Eddie Cantor collaborator Dave Rubinoff and Raymond Paige.
In 1931 he wrote “When Your Lover Has Gone” which was featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy (1931). The song became a hit and has since been covered by many other performers such as Lee Wiley, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Frank Sinatra.
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Gene Austin – 78 rpm single Victor 22635, c/w Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone, recorded 5 February 1931
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The Charleston Chasers – recorded in New York on 9 February 1931; issued as Columbia 2404-D, b/w Walkin’ My Baby Back Home (m. Fred Ahlert, w. Roy Turk)
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Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra — recorded in Chicago on 29 April 1931 (source: The Louis Armstrong Discography at michaelminn.net); released as Okeh 41498, c/w Blue Again (m. Jimmy McHugh, w. Dorothy Fields)
Armstrong, Louis (Trumpet, Vocal)
Randolph, Zilner (Trumpet)
Jackson, Preston (Trombone)
Boone, Lester (Clarinet, Alto Saxophone)
James, George (Reeds)
Washington, Albert (Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone)
Alexander, Charlie (Piano)
McKendrick, Mike (Banjo, Guitar)
Lindsay, John (Bass)
Hall, Tubby (Drums)
- When Your Lover Has Gone (.ra audio file from redhotjazz.com)
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Bert Lown and his Biltmore Hotel Orchestra, with vocal by male trio — Victor 22652, b/w Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone, recorded in NYC on 5 March 1931
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Maxine Sullivan — 1942
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Eddie Condon and his Orchestra — Decca 78 rpm single 23393, b/w Wherever There’s Love (There’s You And I), released in 1944. Featured musicians include: Bobby Hackett (trumpet), Jack Teagarden (trombone) and Eddie Condon (guitar).
Frank Sinatra — recorded in Hollywood on 19 December 1944; arranging and conducting by Axel Stordahl
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Lee Wiley and Eddie Condon — “Town Hall” Jazz Group, Blue Network recording, NYC, 30 December 1944
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUdkxZLNfTI (embedding disabled)
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Eddie Heywood — recorded in New York on 1 September 1950; released as Columbia 78 rpm single 39318, c/w Mighty Lak’ a Rose
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Billie Holiday and her Orchestra — recorded 23 August 1955 at Radio Recorders studio in Los Angeles
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Teddy Wilson — from the LP For Quiet Lovers, 1955
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Frank Sinatra — eighth track of the LP In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, released in April 1955
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Johnny Hartman — from side two of his 1956 Bethlehem Records LP Songs from the Heart (BCP-43) — Johnny Hartman (vocal), Howard McGhee (trumpet), Ralph Sharon (piano), Jay Cave (bass), Christy Febbo (drum)
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Gerry Mulligan Quartet, featuring Chet Baker
Chet Baker (trumpet) Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone) Henry Grimes (bass) Dave Bailey (drums) — released on the 1958 World Pacific LP Gerry Mulligan Quartet — Reunion With Chet Baker (PJ 1241), recorded in NYC on 3, 11 & 17 December 1957
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Helen Merrill – Recorded In Rome in 1960 for the Italian television program “Moderato Swing” with Piero Umiliani and His Orchestra — Originally released on the 1961 RCA Victor LP Parole E Musica (LPM-10105)
Tonino Ferrelli: bass
Ralph Ferraro: drums
Gino Marinacci: flute
Enzo Grillini: guitar
Piero Umiliani: piano, celesta
Nino Culasso: trumpet
Helen Merrill: vocal
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Judy Garland — from The Judy Garland Show, Episode 24 — taped: 23 February 1964, aired: 15 March 1964
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Feb 17, 2013 @ 09:07:19
Great! You span the decades with your selections. Way to go Doc..
Feb 19, 2013 @ 19:03:17
Thanks, Mike
I published a new feature today (19th), but only as a page this time, not a post. For a couple of years or more I’ve usually duplicated each post as a page, and then often, but not always, deleted the post after a few days when the “new post” rush is over, retaining only the page. I’ve been informed that Google doesn’t like duplication of material within the same website, and will penalize the site that has it. Google displeasure might be a factor in the troubling reality that my daily traffic volume has decreased by more than 1/3 since early December.
There is disagreement as to which is a better for SEO, post or pages. Although the pro-posts camp puts forth strong arguments in favor of their side, I’ve decided to go with the underdog, the lowly page, for the most part at least for awhile. This experiment will probably mean a decrease in the number of posts published. The way posts are used on Songbook is definitely going to be different than before. Another issue with posts, especially posts as heavy with videos, images, bulleted lists, and links as mine typically are, is that they slow down page loading time. Long and dense posts quickly become a big speed-reducing problem on WordPress multiple-post pages (such as the front page, or homepage, Songbook1.wordpress). Slow loading is a great way to drive away visitors, and a no-no wrt SEO.
If you’re not a blogger, then the difference between “posts” and “pages” may not be on your radar. I won’t bother to explain all the differences. The main thing as far as subscribers are concerned is that my server, WordPress.com, does not send notices of new pages to subscribers, as it does for posts. Therefore, if I change to using primarily pages for my major features, then subscribers won’t be notified most of the time. To address this lack of notification I am trying various alternative means of announcing new articles.
You’ve probably noticed some of my recent very short posts which contain little more than a link to a page. That’s one way of announcing a new page. Another method is to announce new pages in the sidebar, using a widget known as a “custom menu” in WordPress-Speak. I’ve used both of these methods today to announce my new feature on the 1932 standard Isn’t It Romantic. See “newest features” at the top of the sidebar. 16 or so hours after publishing and announcing it, I don’t believe anyone has visited the page. Undoubtedly some of my subscribers and others will find it eventually, but we might have to resort to other means of getting the word out on new articles. Perhaps an email service.
Regards,
Jim
Feb 18, 2013 @ 17:23:59
Again, I take my hat off to you Doc . . . nice one.
Feb 19, 2013 @ 18:42:05
Thanks, Don
Please read the comment (to Mike) regarding likely changes in how you’ll be notified of new articles in the near future.
Feb 21, 2013 @ 09:03:26
Talk about dedication . . I did read your comment above,and it gave me an headache,let alone being all above my head.I get the strong impression Doc, that you don’t like being beaten.
Feb 21, 2013 @ 15:41:45
Hi Don,
Yeah, headaches. Sorry about that. Should have done a post to explain my recent and planned changes rather than lump it all in a comment to you. I’ll try to simplify the recent and planned changes when I get to that post. Regarding not liking to be beaten: You are correct, sir. It hurts, but what’s more troubling is not really having a clue as to what caused the steep decline in visitors. The site is in better shape than ever, I think.
However, changes I’ve begun implementing just in the past four or five days might temporarily have some inadvertent adverse affects for visitors. In the past several days I’ve deleted a lot of published posts, something like a 100 of them. This will temporarily result in 404 errors for those attempting to visit my site through links to those deleted posts in Google search results (which will take awhile to be updated), or via links on other search engines and websites. I’m in the process of re-attaching the non-duplicates among those hundreds of images removed to existent pages, but Google and other search engines may be slow to respond to these changes.