Count Basie

[medjuck]

I can't fin the YouTube thread but I wanted to post this:

[Swinging Swede]

That is actually the originally unissued slower version from 29 June 1949 (it first appeared on a French LP). The issued faster version was recorded on 13 July 1949.

Classics 1107 purports to have both, but erroneously plays the issued faster version twice.

The original was recorded by Buddy Johnson for Decca on 7 June 1949.

[Swinging Swede]

Actually there is quite some discographical confusion regarding these late Basie Victor sessions. It is not impossible that Classics took the purported earlier take from the French LP, and that the latter simply had it wrong. I am reminded of something I posted about a few years ago and Classics purports to have the issued vocal take of If You See My Baby from 6 February 1950, but actually plays an instrumental take with different solos. An instrumental take is listed as unissued in Lord, but it is obviously not. Classics must have gotten it from somewhere, thinking that it was the issued take, and the main suspect has to be once again the French LP.

Neatwork apparently realized this error on Classics's part (but not the earlier Jackie Robinson one) and included the vocal take of If You See My Baby in their series of CDs with alternate takes. Which has caused Lord to list this as a second vocal take with an unknown take number, but, although I haven't heard the Neatwork CD, it most likely has the regular vocal take. There are other cases where Classics inadvertently released alternate takes, in which case Neatwork released the actual master take.