You Do Something To Me
Bobby Dukoff and His Orchestra
Conducted by Bobby Dukoff
Produced and Directed by Herman Diaz. Jr.
Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio 2, New York City.
RCA Camden CAS-509
1959
From the back cover: One of the prime benefits of stereophonic sound recordings is its capacity for brining you the finer nuances of such playing as that of Bobby Dukoff. Bobby's prelude to tenor sax stardom include band work with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Spivak and Benny Goodman. At home in this talented company, he stands equally at ease in front of the exceptional musicians heard on this recording. Mat Mathews plays electric accordion, Joe Venuto handles the vibes, marimba and xylophone. Urbie Gree is the trombone man, Buddy Weed, the pianist; Barry Galbraith strings along on guitar, Milt Hinton is the bassist and Gary Chester is on drums. Louis Winter is cool and limber on the vocals.
When not puffing for people, Bobby Dukoff devotes his time to the musical instrument business, supplying top quality mouthpieces to the trade. This is altogether appropriate for a talented saxophonist, since the man who invented the instrument was also a businessman. Adolphe Sax was employed by his father's musical instrument concern in Brussel's when, around 1840, he began experiments which led to the development of the saxophone. It is believed that his main purpose was to produce an instrument which would furnish a needed link between the clarinet and tenor brass sections of the military bands so popular during this period.
In 1842 Adolphe Sax went to Paris, and by 1846 he seemed to have achieved his goal. For during that year a French patent was issued covering more than fourteen types of the new instrument, ranging from the squeaking sopranino to the throbbingly low contrabass. The saxophone mouthpieces in ebonite (a form of black, hard rubber) and plastic; the reed became somewhat broader than that used in a clarinet.
Although the saxophone achieved a certain measure of popularity, it has never really found a proper home in the musical world. It was even something of a late arrival on the jazz scene, the basic instruments of the New Orleans jazz bands being a trumpet, a clarinet and a trombone. As bands got larger the sax horned in, and by the 1920s it had made a place for itself in commercial dance orchestras. Almost every performer was essentially a clarinet man who could "double" on sax. A lot of people unfortunately seemed to think there was something comic about a saxophone, many bands used it for trick "laugh"effects. There are musicians today who regard the saxophone, and many musicians today who regard the saxophone as a clarinet with delusions of grandeur. Occasionally, however, a musician comes along who recognizes the saxophone as an intrinsically fine instrument. Then the saxophone's full potentialities are realized and, as in the case of Bobby Dukoff, there is music.
From Billboard - August 31, 1959: The fine stereo sound brings another dimension to the talented saxophonist's playing. Highlights of this solid package are "You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me," "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," "My Baby Just Care For Me," and Dukoff really takes off in his own "What A Fabulous Night," and "You've Got The Laugh On Me." All arranged by Jim Timmens. Excellent buy at the low price, also good rack material.
Thous Swell
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
It's A Wonderful World
What A Fabulous Night
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
When I Take My Sugar To Tea
You Do Something To Me
My Baby Just Cares For Me
Seems Like Old Times
You've Got The Laugh On Me
I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
Gotta Be This Or That
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