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  • Johnny Mercer and Bix

    • Posted Nov 14, 2009 2:15 PM

      A friend of mine recorded the last week's telecast of the TCM program on Johnny Mercer (Clint Eastwood was the executive producer).

      The famous photo of Bix is shown on the screen whilte Johnny Mercer talks about Skylark,

      "Hoagy had this tune and I couldn't think of what to write because it has this front line which is so pure and kind of classic and bucolic, and in the middle there is straight Bix Beiderbecke."

      During the program several musicians with connections to Bix were mentioned, Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Jack Teagarden and Paul Whiteman.

      Albert 

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