Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!n44a!ima!inmet!andrew From: andrew@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Mickey Spillane=Harlem Nocturne - (nf) Message-ID: <1023@inmet.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 06:23:53 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1023 Posted: Thu Mar 8 06:23:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 07:18:15 EST Lines: 17 #R:ihnss:-194400:inmet:6600093:000:704 inmet!andrew Mar 7 19:13:00 1984 Re: "Harlem Nocturne" I don't know when it was *first* composed, but it was a hit single when recorded by the Viscounts (in 1960, on Madison, and again in 1965 on Amy). My copy of the single credits the song to "Rodgers-Hagen". According to Norm N. Nite's "Rock On", nobody in the band was named that... so it's probably a cover of something composed earlier. The "eerie but sleazy" sound comes from a) the heavily-tremoloed guitar playing minor chords (cf. Link Wray's "Rumble"); b) the "heartbeat" bass; and (especially) c) the melody, which sustains the major seventh over the minor chords (D# over E minor, G# over A minor). Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...{harpo|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew