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The Year of Tony Bennett

An Appreciation of the Art and Music of Tony Bennett

January 15, 2020 By Suzanne Leave a Comment

Song of the Day: Revolvin’ Jones

The song of the day for Thursday, January 16, 2020, is “Revolvin’ Jones.”

About This Song

“Revolvin’ Jones” was written by Will Robison in 1940. Other well-known Robison songs include “A Cottage For Sale” and “Don’t Smoke in Bed.” In American Popular Song, Alec Wilder wrote that “Everybody loved him and many tried to help him, among them John Mercer. Mildred Bailey revered him and sang every song of his she could lay her hands on. I became aware of him in the late twenties when he recorded for Perfect Records. He did manage, during his almost euphoric life, to write a few successful songs … but generally his songs were known only to a few singers and lovers of the off-beat and the non-urban song.”

About This Version

Tony Bennett recorded “Revolvin’ Jones” in 1962 for the album On The Glory Road, featuring an arrangement by Ralph Sharon. Columbia pulled the album at the very last moment and it wasn’t made available until it was included in the Tony Bennett – Complete Collection box set, released in 2011. While several of the songs on On The Glory Road, this charming recording didn’t. I, for one, am mighty glad it did.

“Revolvin’ Jones,” as well as On The Glory Road, is available from iTunes.

Filed Under: Song of the Day Tagged With: On The Glory Road, Ralph Sharon, Tony Bennett, Willard Robinson

March 16, 2015 By Suzanne Leave a Comment

Song of the Day: Revolvin’ Jones

The song of the day for Monday, March 16, 2015 is “Revolvin’ Jones.”

About This Song

“Revolvin’ Jones” was written in 1940 by Willard Robison , who met and collaborated with Jack Teagarden. Other well-known Robison songs include “A Cottage For Sale” and “Don’t Smoke in Bed”. In American Popular Song, Alec Wilder wrote that

Everybody loved him and many tried to help him, among them John Mercer. Mildred Bailey revered him and sang every song of his she could lay her hands on. I became aware of him in the late twenties when he recorded for Perfect Records. … He did manage, during his almost euphoric life, to write a few successful songs … but generally his songs were known only to a few singers and lovers of the off-beat and the non-urban song. He had a special flair for gentleness and childhood, the lost and the religious. I suppose it’s not part of the growth of popular music, nor perhaps were any of Robison’s songs. But if they could so much bolster John Mercer’s conviction that there was more to write lyrics about than city life, that the world of memory, of remembered sayings and scenes, was as evocative as the whispered words of lovers, then he did make a contribution.

About This Version

Tony Bennett recorded this charming song for his album The Glory Road, recorded in 1962 and due to be released on June 18, 1962. At the last minute, the release was canceled. The album was finally released in 2011 in The Tony Bennett Complete Collection and now, thankfully, available on iTunes.

About Today

Tony Bennett recorded this song 53 years ago today, March 16, 1962, at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York, alone with four other songs from On The Glory Road.

Revolvin" Jones

Listen to Revolvin" Jones on Spotify. Tony Bennett · Song · 1962.


“Revolvin’ Jones,” as well as On The Glory Road, is available from iTunes.

Filed Under: Song of the Day Tagged With: On The Glory Road, Willard Robinson

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