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Jo Ann Castle - When My Baby Smiles At Me (Ragtime/Instrumental, Bill Munro)

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Channel: CoverVerse · 2013 · Music

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From '' Tiger Rag ''
Label: Pickwick/33 Records – SPC-3109
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1967

Tracklist
A1 Tiger Rag
Written-By – Eddie Edwards, Tony Sbarbaro
A2 American Patrol
Written-By – Traditional
A3 Honeysuckle Rose
Written-By – Andy Razaf, Fats Waller
A4 I Want A Girl
Written-By – Harry Von Tilzer, William Dillon
A5 Hawaiian War Chant
Written-By – Johnny Noble, Ralph Freed
B1 Maple Leaf Rag
Written-By – Traditional
B2 Pistol Packin' Mama
Written-By – Al Dexter
B3 When My Baby Smiles At Me
Written-By – Andrew Sterling, Bill Munro, Harry Von Tilzer
B4 Dill Pickle Rag
Written-By – Traditional
B5 Yellow Rose Of Texas

Piano – Jo Ann Castle

Notes
Also released in mono: PC-3109
Manufactured by Keel Mfg. Corp., Hauppauge, L.I.

© 1997 Ranwood Records, A Welk Music Group Company
℗ © 1997 Ranwood Records, A Welk Music Group Company. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Reproduction is a Violation of Applicable Laws.

© 1978 Ranwood Records., Distributed by Concord.
℗ 1978 Ranwood Records., Distributed by Concord.


👤 [ARTIST INFO]

American ragtime pianist.
Born September 3, 1939, in Bakersfield, California, USA.
She adopted the stage name "Castle" from a type of accordion, another instrument she played with great proficiency. She was often referred to as "Queen of the Ragtime Pianists," and was seen as the younger version of star ragtime pianist Del Wood.

Castle has released sixteen albums throughout her career. She is most known for being the central ragtime performer on The Lawrence Welk Show, on which she performed from 1959 to 1969. Originally discovered for Welk by Joe Feeney, Castle became a permanent member of the "Welk Family" just prior to her twentieth birthday, replacing the departing Big Tiny Little. Welk wished to announce her age on the air, when she informed him that revealing her actual age publicly would jeopardize her budding career as a Las Vegas entertainer. At first nonplussed, he then surprised her on air a week later with a piano-decorated cake and announcing her hiring as one of his "champagne music-makers". On the show, she was known for playing the "Red Hot Piano".

In the 1990s, Castle performed for fans at the Lawrence Welk-owned Champagne Theater in Branson, Missouri, as well as making a guest appearance for a show with Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra on RFD TV.


🎵 [SONG INFO]

''When My Baby Smiles at Me'' is a popular song with music by Bill Munro and words by Andrew B. Sterling and Ted Lewis, that was published by Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing in 1920.

It was interpolated into the Broadway show The Greenwich Village Follies (1919) and was the first big hit for clarinettist, vocalist and comedian Ted Lewis (1892–1971). Ted Lewis's jazz band recording in 1920 for Columbia Records, became his signature tune, and spent 18 weeks on the charts (seven weeks at No. 1). Ted Lewis re-recorded it several times over the years and his 1938 version for Decca also charted briefly.
The tune was also covered by other artists of the time.

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra played a brief (43-second) honky-tonk version of ''When My Baby Smiles at Me'' during their 1938 Carnegie Hall concert.

Appearances in films

1936
Sing, Baby Sing
1941
Hold That Ghost - Played during the opening credits and played by Ted Lewis and His Orchestra (as Ted Lewis' Orchestra) and sung by Ted Lewis at the nightclub.
1942
Behind the Eight Ball
1948
When My Baby Smiles at Me

Other notable recordings

1920
Billy Murray and Gladys Rice
Henry Burr
1931
Sunny Clapp [de] and His Band O' Sunshine
1956
Bing Crosby recorded it for his album Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around.
1959
Max Bygraves with Ted Heath for the album Max and Ted The Hits of the Twenties.
1960
Louis Prima and Keely Smith - included in their album Together.
1963
Bobby Darin recorded the song and it was released on the album The Unreleased Capitol Sides (1999).


🔗 [LINKS]

Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/35SnzYV3yRSB4oeDGIT44Y
and Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/22-great-ragtime-hits-vol-ii/1607885073

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