Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?

Subject: Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 02:50 PM

Is the repeatitive pattern in Peter Gunn original, or can be found in earlier blues recordings?

Subject: RE: Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?
From: Peace
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 06:43 PM

I'd never heard it before (and I recall listening to Mancini back in the late 1950s when the record first came out). Never had heard it before, and I can say I've never heard it done by anyone else on recordings that predate Mancini's presentation of it.

Subject: RE: Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 07:30 PM

I'm with Bruce...I don't recall anything quite like it before. But shortly after came quite a few which were close. One of the more popular big band charts with a similar bass runn opening and even a Tenor solo feature as did "Peter Gunn" was named "Rock Bottom."

BTW....That PG Tenor work was done by the most underrated Tenor player ever. Plas Johnson was heard by many on Mancini's "Pink Panther" as well as Peter Gunn but he was a huge studio and house band artist who was always in demand. I have several of his solo albums still on vinyl that I listened to past the point of wearing them out. Like Charlie Parker who said he "spoke Alto," Plas speaks Tenor, a massive understanding of the voicing of the instrument and how to manipulate it combined with superb creativity and never ending ideas. Combine that with a quick sight reader and you have it all......

Plas has always MORE than "it all."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 12:59 AM

Are you on about Peter Gunn as done by Duane Eddy?

Subject: RE: Peter Gunn bass pattern - original?
From: Rasener
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 01:07 AM

If so

Peter Gunn Duane Eddy