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My Reverie
Larry Clinton And His Orchestra
- Composer
- Debussy
- Released
- 1938
- Label
- Victor
- Forces
- vocal; big band
- Catalogue
- 26006
Clinton turned Debussy’s piano piece into a dance-band song and gave Bea Wain nearly two minutes of instrumental suspense before her vocal entrance. The result spent eight weeks at No. 1 in 1938 and became Wain’s signature recording, although Victor had shortened her first name from Beatrice to Bea without consulting her.
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The originalsDebussy: Rêverie
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- My ReverieDebussy: Rêverie