“In The Mood” Origins
This week a double feature which lay at the basis for "In The Mood." It started a decade before Glenn Miller made this tune worldfamous.
On August 28, 1930 "Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs" went into a Richmond, Indiana, studio to record "Tar Paper Stomp."
This Joe was a one-armed New Orleans trumpet player and composer by the name of Joseph Manone (1900-1982), who is better known by his nickname "Wingy."
Eight years later Wingy Manone's uncopyrighted "Tar Paper Stomp" would be picked up by Joe Garland when he composed "In The Mood."
The musicians on Manone's recording, which was later also released as "Wingy's Stomp" under Wingy Malone's own name are:
Wingy Manone (cornet), George Walter (Clarinet), Joe Dunn (tenor saxophone), Maynard Spencer (piano) and Dash Burkis (drums).
In a March 19, 1931 New York recording session, "Fletcher Henderson and his Baltimore Bell Hops," first borrowed Manone's theme for a big band arrangement.
In pianist Horace Henderson's composition "Hot And Anxious" it can be heard in the second chorus, right after Bobby Stark's trumpet solo.
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins plays the clarinet solo, and the guitar solo is played by Clarence Holiday -- who at 16 fathered a daughter: Billie Holiday.
During the thirties, several other bands used Wingy Manone's idea. By the time Glenn Miller issued his succesful version of "In The Mood", Manone was finally given credits as a co-composer.
