You don’t know how much you can

Here is more information on this tune. The ’melancholic’ version, as we play it, is made popular by Jan Morks, a Dutch clarinet player. I remember him very well as I visited the club where he played weekly in the late sixties. This was Ted Easton’s jazzclub New Orleans in Scheveningen-on-Sea, Holland. The original version of this tune is played much quicker and was made popular in 1939 by the Andrew Sisters. On Youtube you will find a quick version sung by Edith Wright, accompanied by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, also 1939. By listening you will find out this is not a tragic song at all, as the full text says: ’You don’t know how much you can suffer, until you fall in love.’ Our version is more or less a jam-session as this is not a regular band and we only rehearsed it once. Thomas Schrickel plays the lead on clarinet, Rod Sykes does the bass (and we were in his beautiful studio with about 50 audience), Tom Sykes on violin, Francis on trumpet, Peter Stephenson on banjo and I do