First Song - I'm Crazy About My Baby

This is jazz This is jazz is radio's only live talent presentation of authentic improvised New Orleans jazz The writer and narrator is Rudy Blanche famous jazz critic and author of the recent book shining from it a colorful history of this American music Each week at this time he and his great jazz men bring you a solid half hour of superb improvised jazz and scenes from his history

So here is Rudy Blay. And here we are, all ready to go on the 16th session of This Is Jazz. Four years ago at the two young age of 39, a great jazz man died.

He was a big man physically, a big man spiritually. He was a fountainhead of music. His were nearly 500 beautiful compositions. Among them tunes that a whole American generation has hummed and whistled and loved.

loved as they loved him. Thomas Fatwaller left us a legacy of beauty and the legend of a happy, friendly and divinely gifted human being. Fatwaller's world was one where in all men are equal and where in all men can be friends. Our players, George Bruni's Albert Nicholas, Wild Bill Davidson, Danny Barker, Freddie Moore and

Pop's Foster and our two guest star James P. Johnson and Sidney Bache joined me today in a tribute to the memory of Pat's Waller. Our opening number is going to be one of Pat's cattiest tunes with George Rooney singing the vocal.

It's called, I'm Crazy About My Baby. And my baby's Crazy About Me. I was happy with creature to tell me what can worry be. Because I'm crazy about my baby.

And my baby's crazy about me. Mr. Cupid was our teacher. That's the reason we are three. And I'm crazy about my baby, and my babies, Crazy about me, oh, get your book out. Play in your hands, keep a dirty look out, Catch you understand, it's an A1 combination, Where the perfect he and she,