The Songs Of Bobby Troup Bobby Troup
Album info
Album-Release:
1955
HRA-Release:
28.03.2014
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1Cuckoo In The Clock02:26
- 2Midnight Sun02:53
- 3Laura02:36
- 4That Old Black Magic04:28
- 5One For My Baby04:13
- 6Jeepers Creepers02:54
- 7Skylark02:59
- 8I'm With You02:07
Info for The Songs Of Bobby Troup
Bobby Troup wore many hats as a composer, performer, singer/songwriter, and actor that has made several contributions to both Jazz music and the entertainment industry as a whole. The Songs Of Bobby Troup was a mid-50’s studio session that showcases pianist Bobby Troup and his smooth singing style vocals, valve trombonist Bob Enevoldsen, guitarist Howard Roberts, bassist Red Mitchell and drummer Don Heath. The album includes an assortment of rarities that opens with the happy-go-lucky “Cuckoo In The Clock” in addition to beautiful instrumental arrangements of “Laura,” and “Jeepers Creepers,” concluding on a high note with “I’m With You.”
Bobby Troup, vocals, piano
Howard Roberts, guitar
Bob Enevoldsen, valve trombone
Don Heath, drums
Digitally remastered
Bobby Troup
was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Bobby Troup was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ) fraternity and the Mask and Wig Club.
His earliest musical success came with the song “Daddy” which was a regional hit in 1941. [This would tend to suggest that Troup recorded the song in 1941, but I've seen no evidence.] Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra recorded “Daddy”, which was no.1 for 8 weeks on the Billboard Best Seller chart and the no.5 record of 1941. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra performed “Daddy” on their radio broadcasts, and The Andrews Sisters also recorded the song. In the same year, Troup’s song “Snootie Little Cutie” was recorded by Frank Sinatra and Connie Haines with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Pied Pipers.
In 1946, Troup drove from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles to seek his fame as an actor, musician and entertainer. Along the way he wrote his best-known song, “Route 66,” which he sold to Nat King Cole, who had a major hit with it the same year.
Three of Troup’s best known songs were published and first recorded in 1946: “Route 66,” “Baby, Baby All the Time,” each introduced by Nat King Cole, and “The Three Bears.” The latter is more familiar today in modified form as a children’s song.