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I've got the world on a string
composer
1932; SIGCD341: orchestrated by Jonathan Rathbone
arranger
author of text
Written for the 1932 Cotton Club Parade, one of the many revues held at New York’s Cotton Club, which thrived during the years of prohibition, and employed the elite jazz musicians of the day, such as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie, amongst many others.
from notes by Signum Classics © 2013
Dieser Song wurde für die Cotton Club Parade 1932 geschrieben, einer die vielen Revuen, die im New Yorker Cotton Club stattfanden. Der Klub entwickelte sich in der Zeit der Prohibition zu einem beliebten Treffpunkt, in dem die besten damaligen Jazzmusiker wie Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong und Count Basie und viele andere auftraten.
aus dem Begleittext von Signum Classics © 2013
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