Rockin' Chair (The Mills Brothers)

The Mills Brothers · 1932 · Chanson de Hoagy Carmichael, version vocale feutrée

Context

Cut at Brunswick on March 8, 1932. Hoagy Carmichael's song is treated in a hushed register that contrasts with their fast numbers.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Good-bye Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• St. Louis Blues (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• I Can't Give You Anything but Love (The Mills Brothers) (1932)
• Tiger Rag (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• Nobody's Sweetheart (The Mills Brothers) (1931)
• You Rascal, You (The Mills Brothers) (1931)

Sources

• adp.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Mills Brothers discography

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