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Sparrow in the Tree Top. A bit of repetitive trivia by the author of If I Knew You Were Comin? I'd"ve Baked a Cake, which should very soon be driving its share of sensitive souls out of the nation's bars. Among those carrying on for Carry Nation are Guy Mitchell (Columbia) and Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Decca...
...Benny gave the beat for Don't Be That Way. From then on, as Benny himself remembers it, "they were shrieking. They wanted to tear the place down." For three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa...
...evening last summer, British Disc Jockey Christopher Rowland, bored with requests for a hit of the moment, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake, flipped his Cake record over, played Songstress Eve Young's swingy version of the oldtimer. Almost at once, BBC listeners began shifting allegiance...
...German Reds were plugging if I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake-and explaining the lyrics to mean that the U.S. had resorted to food rationing...
Baked a cake, baked a cake, If I knew you were comin' I'd 've baked a cake...