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“Swingin The Blues! Durham Music Publishing, Inc.” (ASCAP). Annual Musical Tribute: “Eddie Durham Day” (who is my late dad) in San Marcos, TX. Member of AmSong, Inc., a Grassroots org which initiated the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (1996). I promote Big Band Swing, Blues and black Rock n Roll! I manage Michael Powers, Eric Durham and Whitney Marchelle... Website: DurhamJazz.com Calendar: www.myspace.com/PowersBluesMyspace For Girls Only - MyGirlySpace.com______________Accent on Girls Ina Ray Hutton 1940's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6QE7YJU8U

Eddie Durham, Musical Director, Arranger, Composer of "Blues In the Groove"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKtQcgNQbQY&layer_token=6 b904f303db38d33
Topsy, Part I (Eddie Durham composition)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KhJvwH5a2w

Very entertaining. A wonderful tribute to the Composer!

Topsy, Part I (Eddie Durham composition) Vibraphones & Piano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZAzFA5sTs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZAzFA5sTs TOPSY was written in 1938 for The Count Basie Orchestra. Used for the BarScene of STAR WARS I.

Topsy II - Hammond A100 and Yamaha DX7II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrRwdSqtYv8

Get the MANHATTAN TRANSFER version also...

TOPSY - Guitar only
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJys6SKQ3Cw

Sam Ash released EDDIE DURHAM tribute guitars in 2006. Durham was the first to record on an Amplified Guitar, on "Hittin the Bottle" with Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra.

Jimmie Lunceford - Hittin' the Bottle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIvCdKY6INc

Eddie Durham guitarist, FIRST recording of an AMPLIFIED GUITAR 1935.

Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orch. - Rumba Negro, 1929
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLWL2EZaF98

EDDIE DURHAM on guitar and these are the very first of recordings of SINGLE LINE SOLOS

COUNT BASIE 1'OClock Jump & Swingin' the Blues, 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAko7E

Composer, Arranger EDDIE DURHAM by now left BASIE for LUNCEFORD's Orchestra, gets featured on guitar, trombone and records Hittin The Bottle. He loses some of his catalogue rights to BASIE (1'oClock Jump, Jumpin Woodside, Motens Swing). He keeps Swingin the Blues, Topsy, Sent 4U Yest, Every Tub, etc.

Sent for You Yesterday & Here You Come Today!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkd4Kp7UHY

Benny Goodman Orchestra. Eddie Durham, composer, arranger, hired by Goodman as Musical Director. Don't believe it, just listen to Durham's arrangement, same song, for Count Basie in 1938.