"'Tis Autumn": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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'Tis Autumn
Written: 1941	Words and Music by: Henry Nemo	Written for: Independent Publication (not for a Broadway show, revue, movie, etc.)
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book cover: 52nd Street: The Street of Jazz

Arnold Shaw
52nd Street:
The Street Of Jazz
Da Capo Press
(reprint of The Street That Never Slept, 1971)

In his book 52nd Street The Street of Jazz, Arnold Shaw quotes Johnny Mercer (from a tape recording) talking about his experiences at The Onyx, a jazz club on 52nd Street in NYC during the thirties and forties("Gordy" is Gordon Jenkins):

Gordy and I always met at the Onyx, where I also frequently spent time with Bernie Hanighen. Wrote "My Old Man" with Bernie. I wish he hadn't quit writing. The middle part of "My Old Man" is written around a riff developed by the Spirits of Rhythm. I think that "'Tis Autumn" was written the same way. A lot of tunes were built on riffs that jazz bands and soloists of those days improvised. I think Bernie built "Man" on Leo Watson's style of singing. The words just went along (Shaw, p. 79).

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