My Greatest Mistake



































"My Greatest Mistake"
Song by Jack Fulton (w&m) and Jack O'Brien (w&m)
Key E♭ major
Genre Popular, torch song
Form AABA
Written 1940
Meter Moderately slow (with expression)
Time 4
4
Publisher Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc.

"My Greatest Mistake" is a popular song written in 1940 by Jack Fulton and Jack "Bones" O'Brien.[1]


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Contents






  • 1 Comments


    • 1.1 ASCAP boycott




  • 2 Selected discography


    • 2.1 Pre-ASCAP ban


    • 2.2 Post-ASCAP ban




  • 3 Copyrights


    • 3.1 Library holdings


    • 3.2 Publisher plates


    • 3.3 Arrangements




  • 4 Lyrics


  • 5 Notes and references


    • 5.1 Notes


    • 5.2 Recording personnel


    • 5.3 Copyrights


    • 5.4 References







Comments


The original piano and vocal score is in E♭ major. The song was Jack Fulton's first hit. Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., of New York was the publisher. J. R. Lafleur & Son, Ltd. (Boosey & Hawkes), of London was the sole selling agent for the British Empire, except Canada, Newfoundland, and Australia. J. Albert & Son of Sydney was the selling agent for Australia.



ASCAP boycott


"My Greatest Mistake" was one of some 1,250,000 songs under an ASCAP license. In 1940, ASCAP attempted to double its fees to broadcasters for the airing of licensed songs. For ten months – January 1, 1941, to October 29, 1941 – radio broadcasters, namely NBC and CBS, banned all music licensed by ASCAP. Given the timing of the launch of "My Greatest Mistake," the ASCAP boycott, according to O'Brien, stunted the momentum of the song's rise in popularity for 13 recordings that were released before the boycott.



Selected discography



Pre-ASCAP ban





  1. Larry Clinton's Bluebird Orchestra

    1. Bluebird 10784-A
      Terry Allen (vocalist)

      Recorded June 24, 1940, New York[a]

      Side A matrix: 051556-1
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      OCLC 77628941

      (audio at Internet Archive)



  2. Orrin Tucker and His Orchestra

    1. Columbia 35622
      Orrin Tucker (vocalist)
      Matrix: WCO 28040

      Recorded July 24, 1940, New York

      OCLC 768494360



  3. Frankie Masters

    1. Okeh 5658

      Marion Francis (vocalist)
          (née Marion Francis Charlesworth; 1917–2011)
      Matrix: 26957

      Recorded June 25, 1940[b]



  4. Duke Ellington


    1. Victor 26719-A
      Matrix 054624-1
          Also released as His Masters Voice B. 9129
          Matrix OA. 054624-1

      (no vocal)

      Recorded July 24, 1940, New York[c]

      OCLC 956509404

      (audio on YouTube)

    2. Jazz Supreme (It)JS704
      NBC Red broadcast (local station WMAQ)

      Panther Room, basement of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago

      September 10, 1940[d]




  5. Harry Roy

    1. Regal Zonophone

      MR 3392
      Matrix (on label): CAR 5906

      Recorded November 1940, London


  6. London Piano-Accordion Band

    1. Regal Zonophone

      MR 3423
      Matrix (on label): CAR 5949




  7. Harry James
    Dick Haymes (vocalist on all three recordings)

    1. Radio Broadcast, Eastwood Gardens, Detroit, June 30, 1940


    2. Varsity 8389

      Side A matrix 1889
          Also released as Hit 7064
          Side A matrix 1889

      Recorded August 12, 1940, New York

      (audio on YouTube)




    4. Hep (E)88

      Radio Broadcast

      Dancing Campus, Liberty Lake, World's Fair, New York[Note 1]

      September 6, 1940

      OCLC 919190428
      LCCN 2015-625696




  8. Dick Todd

    1. Bluebird 10822
      Matrix BS 051591-1

      Recorded August 6, 1940, New York

      (audio on YouTube)



  9. Dick Robertson

    1. Decca 3378-A
      Dick Robertson (vocalist)
      Matrix: 68015A

      New York, August 27, 1940, New York

      OCLC 173216584, 173216607, 80746185




  1. The Ink Spots


    1. Brunswick 03081-B (catalog number) (1940)
      Matrix (label – Side B): 67990
      Matrix (runout, stamped – Side B): 67990A 1 TT
          Also released as Decca 3379-A
          Matrix (label – Side A): 67990

      Recorded August 20, 1940, New York[2]

      OCLC 173216607, 171137901

      (audio on YouTube)

      (audio at Internet Archive)







Post-ASCAP ban





  1. The Ink Spots


    1. Decca 25237 (matrix / runout)

      3379 A (catalog number)

      Released Aug 1947
          In a compilation album:
          Ink Spots, Volume II
      Decca A-594

      OCLC 48384290





    3. Verve MGV2039

      Recorded September 25, 1956, Los Angeles






  2. Willard McDaniel

    1. Crown 129
      Matrix: JB-427

      Recorded 1954, Los Angeles



  3. Ben Webster
        With the Ralph Burns Orchestra

    1. Norgan EPN 142

      Recorded September 9, 1955, New York[e]

      (audio on YouTube)



  4. Daniel Romano

    From the album:
        Workin' For The Music Man (2012)

    1. You've Changed (label) YC-006

      OCLC 676770797

      (audio on YouTube)





Copyrights


  1. "My Greatest Mistake"
    Jack Fulton (w&m)

    Jack O'Brien (w&m)

    © 26 July 1940

    Class E (published) 85979
    Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., New York[i]

    Renewal 415380; 4 August 1967[ii]

    (copyright expires 4 August 2034)


Library holdings




  • OCLC 222508119, 47206681


Publisher plates


  • H. 15250


Arrangements


  • Arrangement by Charles E. Hathaway, Jr. (1901–1966)
    George Manning Swing Band Collection
    Box 5/55; No. 353 A, page 13, year 1940
    Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

    OCLC 880173015


Lyrics




I've done a lot of things that we're right

and though they brought regret

There's only one thing that I'm sorry for

And that's the day we met


My greatest mistake was falling in love

Falling in love with you

My greatest mistake was dreaming of you

And thinking my dreams would come true


It was easy to see

You never loved me

Though I hoped and I prayed

Someday it could be


My greatest mistake

My greatest heartache

Was falling in love with you


Darlin', you know my greatest mistake was falling in love

And I mean falling in love with a beautiful gal like you, mmm

You know I made another mistake, just dreaming of you

And being foolish enough to think that all my dreams was bound to come true


You know, shoulda been easy for me to see

That, honey child, you never loved me

Course, I hoped and I prayed

That maybe someday, it could be


My greatest mistake

My greatest heartache

Was falling in love with you





Notes and references



Notes





  1. ^ Mike Todd, a theatrical producer and impresario, ran the four largest and most popular attractions at the 1939 New York World's Fair, three of which were cabarets. The first, he took over George Jessel's Old New York and transformed it into Gay New Orleans – a three-acre park; the second he converted the Hall of Music into the Streets of Paris; the third he created the Old Time Op'ry House on the midway; the fourth, he built the Dancing Campus, reportedly the world's biggest outdoor dance arena, featuring big bands nightly with a floor large enough for 12,000 dancing patrons.




Recording personnel





  1. ^ Larry Clinton Band: June 24, 1940, New York: Larry Clinton (trumpet, tuba, trombone, arranger, leader); Bob Alexy (né Robert James Alexy; 1910–1985), Ivor Lloyd (né Ivor Mark Lloyd; 1911–1988), Jack Palmer (né Joseph J. Palmieri; 1912–2000) (trumpets); George Mazza, Al George (né Alfred A. George; 1910–1977), Jimmy Curry (trombones); Steve Benoric (1912–1976), Ben Feman (né Benjamin C. Feman; 1908–1994) (clarinets, alto saxes); Frank Ludwig (né Francis Ludwig Reudelhuber; 1915–1988), Don Hammond (né William Don Hammond; 1914–1964) (clarinets, tenor saxes); Bill Straub (piano); George Rose (né George August Rose; 1909–1978) (guitar); Hank Wayland (double bass); Charlie Blake (drums); Terry Allen (vocalist)


  2. ^ Frankie Masters Band (partial list): Frankie Masters (director, trombone); "Bud" Shiffman (later "Buddy Shaw;" né Herman Shiffman; 1912–2010) (lead alto sax); Vincent Claude Ferrini (1914–2013) (alto sax); Carl C. Bean (1909–1969) (tenor sax); Howard John Barkell (1903–1971) (bari sax, piano, guitar, drums, bass); Marion Francis (vocals); The Masters Voices (vocals)


  3. ^ Duke Ellington Band: July 24, 1940, RCA-Victor, New York, recording session at Studio 2, 155 East 24th Street, Manhattan: Rex Stewart (conductor); Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams (trumpets); Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton (trombones); Juan Tizol (valve trombone); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Johnny Hodges (alto & soprano sax); Otto Hardwick (alto sax, clarinet); Ben Webster (tenor sax); Harry Carney (baritone & alto sax, clarinet); Duke Ellington (piano); Fred Guy (guitar); Jimmie Blanton (bass); Sonny Greer (drums)
    ("A Duke Ellington Panorama: 1940 Discography", The Duke Ellington Society, Washington, D.C.)



  4. ^ Duke Ellington Band: September 10, 1940, NBC Blue broadcast, Hotel Sherman, Panther Room: (same personnel as Ellington's July 24, 1940, session at RCA-Victor Studio 2 in New York)


  5. ^ Ben Webster with the Ralph Burns Orchestra: September 9, 1955, New York: Danny Bank (flute, clarinet); Albert Epstein (1921–2016; clarinet, english horn, bass clarinet); Ben Webster (tenor sax); Hank Jones (piano); Harold Coletta, Martin Donegan, Leo Kruczek (1908–1977), Harry Lookofsky, Gene Orloff, Tosha Samaroff (aka Zama Dworman; né Salmon Dworman; 1906–2005), Paul Winter (violins); Burt Fisch (viola); Abe Borodkin, George Ricci (brother of Ruggiero Ricci), Lucien Schmit (cellos); Chet Amsterdam (né Chester G. Amsterdam; 1926–2010), Wendell Marshall (bass); Osie Johnson (drums); Ralph Burns (arranger; conductor)




Copyrights









References





  1. ^ "O'Brien, Jack (John Roger O'Brien)," ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, p. 374


  2. ^ Decca Labels: A Discography, compiled by Michel Ruppli, Greenwood Press (1996);
    OCLC 36344113
    (originally published in hardcover by Greenwood Press, now an imprint of ABC-CLIO)










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