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New page published today (Tuesday evening):
The new page is the third in my series of 12/8 and 6/8 time songs. As is the case throughout the series, the specific recording of a song selected is either the original recording, when it happens to be in 12/8 or 6/8 time, or the first recording of the song in 12/8 or 6/8 time that I’ve identified. I haven’t yet decided whether to continue the series to part 4.
Those of you who’ve been following the series may note that I’ve changed the phrase “12/8 time songs” to “12/8 and 6/8 time songs” in the previously published pages. A couple of months after I published the first two pages, while reviewing them one day I found that quite a few of the recordings that I’d identified as being in 12/8 time now seemed to me to be in 6/8 time, and there were at least a couple that I was now uncertain about. After considering for awhile breaking up each of the three parts into two sections, one for 12/8 and one for 6/8, eventually I decided to just change all the page titles.
The full series, to date:
- Earth Angel to Good Timin’: doc’s pick of 12/8 and 6/8 time songs, 1954-1978 (parent page; published 06/12/2019)
- 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 1, 1954-1959 – “Earth Angel” to “Put Your Head on My Shoulder” (published 31/12/2019)
- 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 2, 1960-1963 – “At Last” to “Surfer Girl” (published 02/01/2020)
- 12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 3, 1964-1978 – “The Warmth of the Sun” to “Good Timin’” (published 07/07/2020)
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What a Wonderful World (George David Weiss, Bob Thiele)
Louis Armstrong All Stars — taped on 2 July 1968 at Shepherds Bush Studios, London (BBC)
Louis Armstrong (vocal), Tyree Glenn (trombone), Joe Muranyi (clarinet), Marty Napoleon (piano), Buddy Catlett (bass), Danny Barcelona (drums)
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12/8 and 6/8 time were so ubiquitous in songs and recordings of the late 50s and early 60s that I’ve no intention of trying to compile a comprehensive list. Below is my present list, which certainly may be added to from time to time.
12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 1, 1954-1959 – “Earth Angel” to “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”
- 1954 – Earth Angel, Sincerely
- 1955 – The Great Pretender, Only You
- 1956 – Blueberry Hill (Fats Domino version), In the Still of the Night, My Prayer (Platters version), One Night (Smiley Lewis), A Thousand Miles Away, The Way You Look Tonight (Jaguars version)
- 1957 – Dedicated to the One I Love, Maybe, Over the Rainbow (Echoes version), Silhouettes
- 1958 – 16 Candles, Donna, Ebb Tide (Avalons version), I’m So Young, It’s All in the Game (Tommy Edwards version), It’s Only Make Believe, One Summer Night, Since I Don’t Have You, Tears on My Pillow, To Know Him Is to Love Him
- 1959 – I Only Have Eyes for You (Flamingos version), Put Your Head on My Shoulder
12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 2, 1960-1963 – “At Last” to “Surfer Girl”
- 1960 – At Last (Etta James version), Get Well Soon, P.S. I Love You (Starlets version), White Christmas (Statues version), You Belong to Me (Santo & Johnny version)
- 1961 – Can’t Help Falling in Love, Come Home Soon, Daddy’s Home, House of the Rising Sun (Bob Dylan arrangement), I Love How You Love Me, A Moment Ago, My True Story, A Sunday Kind of Love (Mystics version), Till (Angels version), Tragedy (Fleetwoods version)
- 1962 – Bring It On Home to Me, Cry Baby Cry, Don’t Make Me Over, The End of the World, Surfer Girl (demo), You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
- 1963 – Anyone Who Had a Heart, Go Now, I’d Die, In My Room, Surfer Girl
12/8 and 6/8 time songs: part 3, 1964-1978 – “The Warmth of the Sun” to “Good Timin’”
- 1964 – The Warmth of the Sun
- 1965 – Didn’t Want to Have to Do It, It’s Gonna Take a Miracle, Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers version), Yes, I’m Ready
- 1967 – I’ve Gotta Be Me, What a Wonderful World
- 1969 – Hot Fun in the Summertime
- 1970 – Colour My World
- 1973 – Sail On, Sailor
- 1974 – Good Timin’ (unfinished version)
- 1976 – Always and Forever
- 1978 – Good Timin’
