Ben Pollack's Orch. & Jack Teagarden - If I Could Be With You, 1930

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Ben Pollack & His Orchestra - If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) Fox-Trot (J.Johnson - H.Caesar), Vocal chorus by Jack Teagarden, Oriole 1930 (USA)

NOTE: A fabulous Ben Pollack's jazz-dance band and a fabulous singer Jack Teagarden (who, in fact was Ben Pollack's trombonist) in a song composed in 1926, which started its evergreen career in 1930, after McKinney's Cotton Pickers recorded it and made it their signature tune. Teagarden's vocal is as always, just splendid, and so much ahead of its time! It's hard to believe that guy was not  very serious about his singing and treated it as a hobby, while his serious  job was playing trombone - which he did even better. The girls I choose for the slideshow are doing their best to equal these two superb musicians.

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