Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby WCO 26809 X

JUST LIKE TAKING CANDY

FROM A BABY

mx WCO 26809 X

APRIL 30, 1940 Tuesday

HOLLYWOOD

Matrix assigned on May 9. 1940

World Broadcasting System

[ for COLUMBIA Records ]

32 BARS (ABAC)

Key of

D♭ / F

Quarter Note =

204

Time:

2:38

4-Bar Intro + 4 CHORUSES w/ Interludes:

In the Key of D♭:

4 bars – orchestra

(Intro)

16 bars – orchestra

(Melody)

8 bars – clarinet

(Melody over orchestra)

8 bars – orchestra

(Melody)

2 bars – orchestra

(Interlude)

32 bars – vocal w/ sextet

(over clt & vib obbl)

2 bars – orchestra

(Interlude)

Tap dancing (à la fin):

•

8 bars – CC & sextet

(“Honeysuckle Rose” riffs)

8 bars – clarinet & vibes

(w/ sextet)

8 bars – clt, tap, vib, tap

(2 bars each, unaccompanied)

6 bars – clarinet & vibes

(w/ sextet)

2 bars – tap dancing

(w/ orchestral punctuation)

In the Key of F:

2 bars – tap dancing

(w/ orchestral punctuation)

8 bars – orchestra

(w/ clt obbl) [sans hoofing]

8 bars – tenor sax

(over orch) [sans hoofing]

8 bars – clarinet & vibes

(w/ sextet)

4 bars – tap dancing

(w/ sextet accents)

4 bars – orchestra

[sans hoofing]

Personnel:

Fred Astaire with Benny Goodman and his Sextet

CHARLIE CHRISTIAN

Guitar

BENNY GOODMAN

clarinet

LIONEL HAMPTON

vibes

JOHNNY GUARNIERI

piano

ARTIE BERNSTEIN

bass

NICK FATOOL

drums

FRED ASTAIRE

vocal, tap dance

& Goodman Orchestra:

TOOTS MONDELLO

alto sax

LES ROBINSON

alto sax

JERRY JEROME

tenor sax

BUS BASSEY

tenor sax

ZIGGY ELMAN

trumpet

JIMMY MAXWELL

trumpet

IRVING GOODMAN

trumpet

RED BALLARD

trombone

VERNON BROWN

trombone

TED VESELY

trombone

Arranged by FLETCHER HENDERSON

Composed by:

Gladys Shelly - Fred Astaire

© VALDÉS

7/20/20

Transcription

Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby – 30 April 1940 – WCO 26809 X (alternate take)

RIFFS

C&A:

Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby gets a masterful arrangement from the band’s own maestro, Fletcher Henderson…but there’s not a whole lot here for Charlie Christian. He’s prominently heard leading the sextet on eight bars of riffs borrowed from their regular 12-bar intro to Honeysuckle Rose (Charles also used these riffs on the out chorus of his Gone with What Draft) – elsewise it’s just rhythm guitar work with the orchestra. Both complete takes are essentially identical. An unissued breakdown recorded between the two complete takes did not include the eight bars of sextet riffs.

First take	WCO 26809 X	(alternate take)

Second take	WCO 26809 y	(unreleased breakdown)

Third take	WCO 26809 A	(master take)

Incidentally, some of the fingering on the tablatures of both transcriptions is a bit discretionary – a singular exception to the norm – but they are all in the CC style and are all tenable.

Issued Recordings:

[ CD ]

Mosaic

MD7-240

(disc 2, track 16)

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