Whispering (song)
Whispering is the title of a song of Tin Pan Alley writers Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose and Malvin Schonberger ( text ) and John Schonberger (composition). His interpretation by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, released in September 1920, was the first million-seller of the pop music industry worldwide.
Genesis
The song, which is written in the form of a song AB will be carried forward at a moderate pace. The composition comprises 32 bars.
Paul Whiteman's orchestra was on 18 December 1918, the house band at the famous Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, where in the city he presented his big band sound within his two-year contract for the first time. Between 28 June and 2 July 1920, he appeared with his orchestra at the Ambassador Hotel in Atlantic City, where he was discovered by Calvin Child, an employee of the Victor Talking Machine Company and a recording contract signed. Already on August 23, 1920, the first recording session in Camden / New Jersey was scheduled. Among the first three shots also Whispering selected as the A- side of the first single of the orchestra, and the B-side The Japanese Sandman were. It was an acoustic recording; a " orthophonische " ( electric ) version was created on 15 February 1928.
First million-selling pop music
Published in September 1920 plate was dubbed within a year, even as Paul Whiteman & The Ambassador Orchestra (Victor # 18690 ), implemented nearly 2 million times. She was standing on the first place of the charts from October 30 to December 4, 1920; even the B- side of the plate arrived on 11 December, so right after the A-side, at number one on the charts for two weeks. The plate made Whiteman famous overnight and established his orchestra as the most important dance band of the time; his musical style is often classified as " symphonic jazz ". The nearly 2 million records of Whispering roughly equivalent to the number of turntables in the U.S. at that time. From September 1920 Whiteman's orchestra played for four years at New York's Palais Royal, the largest hangout in town.
Cover versions
Richard Coburn, Vincent Rose and John & Malvin Schonberger are the composers of the songs, which is gecovert later the ASCAP According to still 65 times.
The Comedian Harmonists took for the German market board the English language version of Whispering on 17 December 1934 in Berlin. In jazz, the title and a Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Red Nichols, Lennie Tristano, Chet Atkins, Arnett Cobb, Oscar Peterson / Benny Carter, Schnuckenack Reinhardt, Häns'che White and the Frankfurt Swing was All-Stars interpreted; Miles Davis playing " Whispering " on January 17, 1951 as his first session for Prestige with Sonny Rollins one. Dizzy Gillespie used the composition as a bebop head for his popular topic Groovin 'High.
The most successful cover, however, comes from the brothers Nino Tempo & April Stevens, who received the song as a pop duet on October 21, 1963, so that penetrated up to number eleven on the charts.
A recording with German text between satire and frivolity under the title Let me sip your bathwater published the multi - Harmoniker 1979.
Another million seller
Whiteman became one of the most successful artists of the Victor catalog, because of which began on August 22, 1922 Three O'Clock In The Morning even 3.4 million copies after its publication in September 1922 sold.