Thanks Alan for the postings and the generous words about the Forum.

I imagine you know this, but for the benfit of frorumites who do not own a copy of Don's superb biography of Paul Whiteman, here is the desscrition of what Don found in the Williams College Whiteman archives.

In 1998, the author and William Youngren carefully examined the parts for Malneck's arrangement, which is at Williams College. The folder actually has two sets of parts, one in ink and one in pencil. The recording closely follows the ink parts (marked OK), the major exception being the introduction, which was originally slated to be done instrumentaly rather than vocally. The penciled parts (marked "1/2") are for a subsequent sstage show and contain instructions to "stamp feet." Interestingly, in the penciled version, Bix's solo is eliminated, and a chorus for Busse is inserted later in the arrangement. . There are only two trumpet parts in ink. Jimmy Dorsey who had already left the band, was not playing in the brass trio on this first "From Monday ON" session.

There are two major differences between takes 4 and 6 (Feb 28) and take 3 (Feb 13). The first is that on the latter two takes, Min Leibrook's bass sax replaces the string bass of Steve Brown... Secondly, takes 4 and 6 have some good hot clarinet (Friedman) and hot violin (Malneck) improvisations above the brass trio passage in the latter part of the final chorus; these are absent in take 3.

The information about these recordings in the EDVR website:

Albert