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C&A:
Take Him off My Mind was the last song to be recorded
during the two Ida Cox sessions for Vocalion Records on Halloween 1939.
Four songs were recorded on this second session, each with only one take.
Curiously,
the last three songs were all done with five verses sung at the same tempo
and all three with Charlie Christian playing the obbligato part behind the
fourth verse preceded in every case by clarinet, trumpet, and trombone
obbligati in that same order on each of the previous choruses.
Some very interesting work by Charles on the fourth chorus of this song –
particularly so for guitar aficionados. On the last four bars of the
chorus there’s a classic blues sequence that should be in everyone’s
repertoire.
It starts at my forehead and goes clean on down to my toes
It starts at my forehead and goes clean on down to my toes
Oh how I've suffered, Gypsy, nobody but the good Lord knows
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