Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
This is proof I have no control over playback. All night long and into this morning, my JukeBox Brain looped through the tune written by Fred Ahlert/Joe Young, Immortalized by Fats Waller and included in the Broadway musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’, also Frank Sinatra and an infinite list of covers be anyone who sings. The lot in life for a drummer is that the frontman or woman calls the next tune and the drummer’s job is to make the song work. Even if it was written in 1935. Its a two beat drum pattern with no fancy drum fills often sang on New Years Eve in Atlantic City where there are gangsters present. The drummer has no choice but to keep playing. No doubt triggering memories from my past as a working drummer. It is a great classic standard none the less.
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