Pioneers–Bing, Some Days, blues

Now, we are going to move up the calendar five years to October 6, 1931 when Bing Crosby recorded “Some of These Days.” His version has none of the poignant longing of the Sophie Tucker recordings. Instead, he brings in the hot new sound of blues syncopations to the song.

In the short period of time of 1923 to 1932, we have lost the ragtime origins and gone straight to the sound of hot jazz/blues. One writer called Bing’s recording “the jazz scat version.” Crosby recorded the song on the Banner label, a label called “a five cent store label.”

Looking at two clips, we believe that Eddie Lang opens the song on the guitar and that later Frankie Trumbauer comes in on the musical interlude on the sax.

However one wants to catalogue this sound, it is good.