| The Long Winters – Untitled Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I heard this lyric at a Montreal club in 1954. It was a regular in the act of a black singer named Clarence ..... It was in the nature of a vocalese uptempo reprise of a standard ballad, "It's only a shanty in old shantytown". It was pretty common back then to sing a ballad, then repeat it up-tempo. In this case the lyric was also 'scatted' making it vocalese. It was 'happy as Haile', not 'sassy'. | |
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