{"id":858,"date":"2024-01-24T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/?p=858"},"modified":"2024-01-24T13:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:17:06","slug":"red-nichols-and-his-world-famous-pennies-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/2024\/01\/24\/red-nichols-and-his-world-famous-pennies-1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Nichols And His World Famous Pennies 1934"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Very Thought Of You”
\nRed Nichols And His World Famous Pennies; King Harvey, vocal
\n(Bluebird B 5548-A)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 July 18, 1934<\/p>\n

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This recording is from the collection of Matt From College Station who let me digitize it for Radio Dismuke. I think it is a very pleasant version of a song famously recorded by Al Bowlly<\/a> with the Ray Noble<\/a> Orchestra in England. When the Ray Noble recording was released in the United States, it quickly climbed to the top of the Billboard<\/em> music charts. The song has been recorded by a variety of artists over the decades and is regarded as a pop standard.<\/p>\n

I was not able to find biographical information about vocalist King Harvey other than he was a guitar player and vocalist for both the Herbie Kay<\/a> and Red Nichols<\/a> bands.<\/p>\n

While preparing this posting, I saw that\u00a0Ricky Nelson<\/a>, son of 1930s bandleader Ozzie Nelson<\/a>, revived the song in 1964 with a big-selling rock and roll version. I thought that was interesting because King Harvey’s voice strikes me as being similar to Ozzie Nelson’s.<\/p>\n

I am currently working on a few other recordings from Matt’s collection, some of which I will share in future postings.<\/p>\n

– Dismuke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  “The Very Thought Of You” Red Nichols And His World Famous Pennies; King Harvey, vocal (Bluebird B 5548-A)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 July 18, 1934   This recording is from the collection of Matt From College Station who let … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.early1900s.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}