A Taste of Honey (song)
A Taste of Honey ( German: , A Taste of Honey ') is the title of a 1960 by Robert William " Bobby" Scott composed and he was the first published jazz songs of 1965 to the million seller by Herb Alpert.
Genesis
The story of the song begins with the stage drama A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, the London and on 27 May 1958 - two years later - on October 4, 1960 in New York had its premiere. In the original version of the drama, a song is not provided. The play is about a young white man, who has become pregnant by a black sailor after a night of love. Your best friend, a homosexual who agrees to help her in raising the child. In the U.S. premiere dive but the song of the same title, sung by stage actor Billy Dee Williams, for the first time in New York in the first act of the drama on. It came from the jazz pianist Bobby Scott of it as Bobby Scott Quartet With String Quartet on October 25, 1960 in New York City in the occupation of Bobby Scott (vocals / piano ), Frank Socolow (tenor saxophone / clarinet / oboe), John Drew / Bill Vrow (bass) and Charlie Persip (drums) had taken; produced the recording session by David Merrick. It appeared on Scotts LP A Taste of Honey ( Atlantic 1355, November 1960 ).
Stage singer Bille Dee Williams brought the piece on his LP Let 's Misbehave ( Prestige Lively Arts, LA 30001 ) in December 1961 out. Then in turn built on the same movie that came to theaters on April 30, 1962 in the U.S. ( in German: A Taste of Honey ). After the piece in this adaptation of the play was to be heard, it was awarded the 1962 Grammy for "Best Instrumental Theme".
First Singles
(Drums) consisting of Victor Feldman ( piano ), Buddy Collette (tenor saxophone), Leroy Vinnegar (bass) and Ron Jefferson on 4 - After previously A Taste of Honey was merely hiding on LPs, was released from Victor Feldman Quartet - a British Jazz Band June 1962 the first single ( Infinity INX -020 ). The first recorded in the charts single version was on 18 June 1962 Martin Denny on the market ( U.S. pop charts rank 50). On June 15, 1962 Big Band to Quincy Jones was in the recording studio by Phil Ramone to record the piece in another jazz version (LP Big Band Bossa Nova, August 1962 ). The first vocal version ( with the subsequently added text by Ric Marlow ) dates from September 17, 1962 by Lenny Welch, the hereby but missed the charts.
The Beatles
The Beatles recorded the piece that was part of their early live repertoire already in Hamburg's Star Club, on 11 February 1963 for their debut album Please Please Me in seven takes. Was sung the song by Paul McCartney. This piece was first used in a recording of the Beatles, the double- tracking method to double McCartney singing. It was also one of the four tracks on Twist and Shout, their first UK EP, which was released on July 12, 1963. In the U.S. of A Taste of Honey was first published on January 10, 1964 on the Vee -Jay album Introducing ... The Beatles. On March 22, 1965, he also it appeared in the U.S. on the sixth Capitol album Beatles The Early Beatles. A live version, which was created during a performance in late December 1962 at the Star-Club, was released in April 1977 on the album Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; In 1962. Another live recording that had arisen in the context of various radio appearances of the Beatles, was released in 1994 on the album Live at the BBC.
Herb Albert
This was followed by Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass with an instrumental version on the LP Whipped Cream And Other Delights ( April 1965 ), which sold 4.5 million copies by the end of 1966 and hereby rank 1 on the U.S. album charts occupied. Strikingly here in the intro the beats on the bass drum, which were imitated on some subsequent cover versions. For his version Alpert received 1966 Grammy Awards in three different categories: "Best Instrumental Arrangement ", " Best Instrumental Performance, Non- Jazz" and "Record Of The Year ". He also received a Larry Levine, the recording engineer, a Grammy for " Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical ". In February 1966 German single release reached from this rank 33 on the German charts.
Other cover versions
Overall, there are at least 87 cover versions. Acker Bilk came with his instrumental recording to rank 16 in the British charts ( January 1963 ), followed by Peggy Lee (recorded on January 3, 1963). This was followed by Barbra Streisand ( debut LP The Barbra Streisand album, recorded on February 25, 1963), Paul Desmond (LP Glad to be Unhappy, recorded on July 14, 1963). Allan Sherman developed based on the melody of the parody A Waste of Money about the senseless consumer debt (LP My Son, the Nut, Oct. 1963 ). Other versions are by Tony Bennett ( August 1964, U.S. 94), Chet Baker ( LP Baby Breeze, taken on 14 and 20 November 1964), Lionel Hampton ( January 1965 ), Bobby Darin ( March 9, 1965, LP Venice Blue, released in May 1965), Trini Lopez (LP the Love, 1965), Hollies ( U.S. LP Beat Group!, May 1966 ). The Danish singing duo Jan & Kjeld brought with A kiss goodbye ( German Text: Günter Loose, April 1966 ) a German version with the music track by Herb Alpert out.