Tar Paper Stomp

"Tar Paper Stomp"
Single by Wingy Manone
Released 1935
Format 10" 78rpm
Genre Big band
Length 3:07
Label Champion Records
Writer(s) Wingy Manone
1937 78 re-release on Decca Records, 7425A.

"Tar Paper Stomp" is a 1930 jazz recording by American bandleader and jazz trumpeter Wingy Manone. The instrumental featured a riff that was used in the subsequent releases "Hot and Anxious", "There's Rhythm in Harlem", "In the Mood", "Hot String Beans", and in 1939 in "Jumpy Nerves".

Background

Wingy Manone recorded "Tar Paper Stomp", also known as "Wingy's Stomp", or "Wingy's Blues", on August 28, 1930 in Richmond, Indiana and released it as a 78 single on Champion Records as by Barbecue Joe and his Hot Dogs as 16153B, re-released in 1935 as by Wingy Manone's Orchestra as 40005.[1] The A side was "Tin Roof Blues". Decca Records acquired Champion Records in 1935. The recording was re-released in 1937 as a Decca 78 single as by Wingy Manone and his Orchestra.

Horace Henderson used the same riff from "Tar Paper Stomp" in "Hot and Anxious", recorded by his brother's band, Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, on March 19, 1931, which was released on Columbia Records as by the Baltimore Bell Boys. Don Redman recorded "Hot and Anxious" in 1932 on Brunswick Records.[2]

"Tar Paper Stomp" featured a riff that was used in "In the Mood" by Joe Garland. The main theme of "In the Mood", featuring repeated arpeggios rhythmically displaced, previously appeared in "Tar Paper Stomp".[3]

Under copyright laws, a tune that had not been written down and registered with the copyright office was not protected. Wingy Manone had pointed out the similarity between "Tar Paper Stomp" and "In the Mood" to Joe Garland and to the publishing company of the song, Shapiro, Bernstein, and Company of New York.[4] Manone also discussed the issue in Down Beat magazine. "Tar Paper Stomp" was copyrighted on November 6, 1941 as a pianoforte version by Peer International.[5]

A song entitled "Hot String Beans" released by Joe Marsala on Vocalion in 1938 also featured the riff from "Tar Paper Stomp".

Wingy Manone recorded a new song entitled "Jumpy Nerves" on April 26, 1939 featuring Chu Berry on tenor saxophone that incorporated the riff from “Tar Paper Stomp” which was released as a 78 single that year on RCA Bluebird.

Album appearances

"Tar Paper Stomp" appeared on the 1998 Various Artists compilation CD New Orleans: The Cradle of Jazz on Charly Records and in a new recording by Mora's Modern Rhythmists on the 2000 album Call of the Freak on Mr. Ace Records.

References

  1. ↑ Wingy Manone. Red Hot Jazz.
  2. ↑ Clarke, Donald (2013). Chapter 9. The Swing Era Begins. The Rise and Fall of Popular Music. donaldclarkemusicbox.com.
  3. ↑ Updike, John (2008). The Widows of Eatwick. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Steve (2013). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 2. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, pp. 50-51.
  5. ↑ Tar Paper Stomp. Catalog of Copyright Entries. Musical Compositions, 1941.

Sources

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