Введение
Американский пианист буги-вуги Кларенс "Пинетоп" Смит (11 июня 1904 года – 15 марта 1929 года) в 1920 году переехал в Питтсбург, штат Пенсильвания, где работал артистом эстрады, прежде чем начать гастролировать с Ассоциацией бронирования владельцев театров (T. O. B. A.). Он выступал как певец, комик и пианист. В течение некоторого времени он аккомпанировал блюзовой певице Ма Рейни.
Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), In 1920 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an entertainer before touring on the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T. O. B. A.) vaudeville circuit, performing as a singer and comedian as well as a pianist. For a time, he worked as accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey
On December 29, 1928, he recorded his influential "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie", one of the first "boogie woogie" style recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the style. Smith talks over the recording, telling how to dance to the number. He said he originated the number at a house rent party in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was the first ever to direct "the girl with the red dress on" to "not move a peg" until told to "shake that thing" and "mess around". Similar lyrics are heard in many later songs, including "Mess Around" and "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles. Smith was scheduled to make another recording session for Vocalion in 1929, but died from a gunshot wound in a dance hall fight in Chicago the day before the session. No photographs of Smith are known to exist. |December 29, 1928
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|"Big Boy They Can't Do That" that it became Dorsey's best selling record, with over five million copies sold. Bing Crosby (recorded January 21, 1946 with Lionel Hampton's Orchestra) and Count Basie also issued their versions of the song. Perkins later became Muddy Waters's pianist. When he was in his nineties, he recorded a song on his 2004 album Ladies' Man, which played on the by then common misconception that he had written "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie". Ray Charles adapted "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" for his song "Mess Around", for which the authorship was credited to "A. Nugetre", Ahmet Ertegun. In 1975, the Bob Thiele Orchestra recorded a modern jazz album called I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood, which included a treatment of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" as well as the title song. Gene Taylor recorded a version of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" on his eponymous 2003 album. Claes Oldenburg, the pop artist, proposed a Pinetop Smith Monument in his book Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965–69. Oldenburg described the monument as "a wire extending the length of North Avenue, west from Clark Street, along which at intervals runs an electric impulse colored blue so that there's one blue line as far as the eye can see. Pinetop Smith invented boogie woogie blues at the corner of North and Larrabee, where he finally was murdered: the electric wire is 'blue' and dangerous."
29 декабря 1928 года он записал свой влиятельный "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" – одну из первых записей в стиле "буги-вуги", ставшую хитом и закрепившую название стиля. На записи Смит рассказывает, как танцевать под эту мелодию. Он утверждал, что впервые исполнил её на вечеринке в доме в Сент-Луисе, штат Миссури. Смит был первым, кто призвал "девушку в красном платье" "не шевелиться", пока не прозвучит команда "встряхнуть всем" и "дать волю". Подобные тексты встречаются во многих последующих песнях, включая "Mess Around" и "What'd I Say" Рэя Чарльза. Смит должен был записать новую сессию для Vocalion в 1929 году, но погиб от огнестрельного ранения в результате драки в танцевальном зале в Чикаго за день до записи. Ни одной фотографии Смита не существует. 29 декабря 1928 года "Big Boy They Can't Do That" стала самой продаваемой записью Дорси, разойдясь тиражом более пяти миллионов экземпляров. Бинг Кросби (записан 21 января 1946 года с оркестром Лайонела Хэмптона) и Каунт Бэйси также выпустили свои версии этой песни. Позже Перкинс стал пианистом Мэдди Уотерса. В возрасте девяноста лет он записал песню для своего альбома 2004 года "Ladies' Man", которая обыгрывала распространенное заблуждение о том, что он является автором "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie". Рэй Чарльз адаптировал "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" для своей песни "Mess Around", авторство которой было указано как "A. Nugetre", то есть Ахмет Эртегун. В 1975 году оркестр Боба Тиле записал современный джазовый альбом под названием "I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood", в который вошла обработка "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" и одноименная композиция. Джин Тейлор записал версию "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" для своего альбома 2003 года с тем же названием. Клас Олденбург, художник-поп-артист, предложил установить монумент Пинетопу Смиту в своей книге "Предложения для памятников и зданий" (1965–69). Олденбург описал монумент как "провод, протянутый вдоль Северной авеню к западу от Кларк-стрит, по которому с интервалами проходит синий электрический импульс, создавая синюю линию, уходящую вдаль. Пинетоп Смит изобрел буги-вуги-блюз на углу Северной и Ларраби, где он и был убит: электрический провод – "синий" и опасный".
Clarence "Pinetop" Smith (June 11, 1904 – March 15, 1929), In 1920 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he worked as an entertainer before touring on the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T. O. B. A.) vaudeville circuit, performing as a singer and comedian as well as a pianist. For a time, he worked as accompanist for blues singer Ma Rainey
On December 29, 1928, he recorded his influential "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie", one of the first "boogie woogie" style recordings to make a hit, and which cemented the name for the style. Smith talks over the recording, telling how to dance to the number. He said he originated the number at a house rent party in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith was the first ever to direct "the girl with the red dress on" to "not move a peg" until told to "shake that thing" and "mess around". Similar lyrics are heard in many later songs, including "Mess Around" and "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles. Smith was scheduled to make another recording session for Vocalion in 1929, but died from a gunshot wound in a dance hall fight in Chicago the day before the session. No photographs of Smith are known to exist. |December 29, 1928
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|"Big Boy They Can't Do That" that it became Dorsey's best selling record, with over five million copies sold. Bing Crosby (recorded January 21, 1946 with Lionel Hampton's Orchestra) and Count Basie also issued their versions of the song. Perkins later became Muddy Waters's pianist. When he was in his nineties, he recorded a song on his 2004 album Ladies' Man, which played on the by then common misconception that he had written "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie". Ray Charles adapted "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" for his song "Mess Around", for which the authorship was credited to "A. Nugetre", Ahmet Ertegun. In 1975, the Bob Thiele Orchestra recorded a modern jazz album called I Saw Pinetop Spit Blood, which included a treatment of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" as well as the title song. Gene Taylor recorded a version of "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" on his eponymous 2003 album. Claes Oldenburg, the pop artist, proposed a Pinetop Smith Monument in his book Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965–69. Oldenburg described the monument as "a wire extending the length of North Avenue, west from Clark Street, along which at intervals runs an electric impulse colored blue so that there's one blue line as far as the eye can see. Pinetop Smith invented boogie woogie blues at the corner of North and Larrabee, where he finally was murdered: the electric wire is 'blue' and dangerous."
Награды и почести
Смит был посмертно включен в Зал славы джаза штата Алабама в 1991 году.