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What's New (ver. 1) by Bob Haggart - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
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"What's New?" is a 1939 popular song composed by Bob Haggart, with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was originally an instrumental tune titled "I'm Free" by Haggart in 1938, when Haggart was a member of Bob Crosby And His Orchestra. The tune was written with a trumpet solo, meant to showcase the talents of band-mate Billy Butterfield. Crosby's orchestra recorded "I'm Free" the same day it was written. The following year, the music publishers hired Johnny Burke to write lyrics for the tune. Burke's telling of the torch song is unique, using one side of a casual conversation between former lovers. Thus the song was retitled using the song's first line, "What's New?" The song was recorded with the new title in 1939 by Bob Crosby And His Orchestra With Vocalist Teddy Grace. The song reached a peak chart position of #10. Other popular 1939 recordings of "What's New" include Hal Kemp and His Orchestra with.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Bob (Robert Sherwood) Haggart (March 13, 1914 in New York City; died December 2, 1998 in Venice, Florida) was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger. He becamer a founder-member of the Bob Crosby Band (1935). Arranged and part-composed several of the band's big successes. For example: "What's New?", "South Rampart Street Parade", "My Inspiration", and "Big Noise From Winnetka". He remained with the band until 1942. He then worked as a studio musician in New York and recorded with Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. During the 1950's organised (with Yank Lawson) a regular series of small band recordings and also arranged many of the tunes for Louis Armstrong's four -volume L.P. recreation set made in 1956-7. Bob Crosby also used this ensemble as the core of many groups, including the band that recorded Haggart's arrangement of Porgy and Bess (1958). During the late 1960's he played frequently in bands organised by Bob Crosby. He worked and co-led with Yank Lawson The World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-1978). From 1978 until shortly before his death Haggart worked with own groups or as a free-lance musician in several jazzgroups and.
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