Woodchopper's Ball
"Woodchopper's Ball", also known as "At the Woodchopper's Ball"[1] is a 1939 jazz composition by Joe Bishop and Woody Herman. The up-tempo blues tune in D-flat major was the Woody Herman Orchestra's biggest hit, as well as the most popular composition of either composer, selling a million records.[2]
The tune has been performed by numerous artists and is considered a jazz standard. It is included in the first volume of Hal Leonard's Real Book.[3] The song was covered by the British blues/rock band Ten Years After on their album, Undead. The original recording by Woody Herman and His Orchestra received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 2002.[4]
"Twistin' at the Woodchopper's Ball" written by Ronn Metcalfe was a 1962 hit based on Herman's song, which attained a gold album status.
See also
References
- ^ Woody Herman biography at AllMusic - retrieved on 25 May 2009
- ^ William Emmett Studwell and Mark Baldin: The Big Band Reader: Songs Favored by Swing Era Orchestras and Other Popular Ensembles. Haworth Press, 2000. ISBN 0-7890-0914-5. p. 158
- ^ The Real Book, Volume I, sixth edition. Hal Leonard. ISBN 0-634-06038-4. p. 447
- ^ Grammy Hall of Fame Awards at Grammy.com - retrieved on 25 May 2009
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Woody Herman
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- How Hi the Fi (with Buck Clayton, 1954)
- Woody Herman–1963 (1962)
- My Buddy (with Rosemary Clooney, 1983)
- Encore Woody Herman–1963 (1963)
- "Woodchopper's Ball" (1939)
- "Frenesi" (1941)
- "The Golden Wedding" (1941)
- "Blues in the Night" (1942)
- "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (1944)
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (1945)
- "Laura" (1945)
- "Caldonia" (1945)
- "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (1946)
- "Surrender" (1946)
- "Sabre Dance" (1948)
- "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955)
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