George Wettling
George Godfrey Wettling (November 28, 1907 – June 6, 1968) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Topeka, Kansas, United States, and from his early teens was living in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the young Chicagoans who fell in love with jazz as a result of hearing King Oliver's band (with Louis Armstrong on second cornet) at Lincoln Gardens in the early 1920s. Oliver's drummer, Baby Dodds, made a particular and lasting impression on Wettling. Wettling went on to work with the big bands of Artie Shaw, Bunny Berigan, Red Norvo, Paul Whiteman, and Chico Marx, but he was at his best with bands led by Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, and himself. In these small bands, Wettling demonstrated the arts of dynamics and responding to a particular soloist that he had learned from Baby Dodds. Wettling was a member of some of Condon's bands, which included Wild Bill Davison, Billy Butterfield, Edmond Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Pee Wee Russell, Cutty Cutshall, Gene Schroeder, Ralph Sutton, and Walter Page. In 1957, he toured England with a Condon band that included Davison, Cutshall, and Schroeder. Toward the end of his life, Wettling, like his friend clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, took up painting and was influenced by the American cubist Stuart Davis. He has been said to have believed that "jazz drumming and abstract painting seemed different for him only from the point of view of craftsmanship: in both fields he felt rhythm to be decisive". |
Birth and Death Data: Born November 28, 1907 (Topeka), Died June 6, 1968 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1936 - 1956
Roles Represented in DAHR: drums, traps
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Recordings (Results 1-25 of 148 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | MS-06230 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1937 | Love is good for anything that ails you | Artie Shaw Orchestra ; Peg LaCentra | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | MS-06231 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1937 | Trust in me | Artie Shaw Orchestra ; Peg LaCentra | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | MS-06232 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1937 | Sweet is the word for you | Artie Shaw Orchestra ; Peg LaCentra | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | MS-06233 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1937 | Cream puff | Artie Shaw Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | MS-06234 | 16-in. (33-1/3 rpm) | approximately late Jan. 1937 | When your lover has gone | Artie Shaw Orchestra ; Peg LaCentra | Jazz/dance band and female vocal soloist | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | BS-06581 | 10-in. | 3/31/1937 | A jam session at Victor (Honeysuckle rose) | Bunny Berigan ; Tommy Dorsey ; Dick McDonough ; Fats Waller ; George Wettling | Jazz/dance quintet | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | BS-06582 | 10-in. | 3/31/1937 | A jam session at Victor (Blues-fox trot) | Bunny Berigan ; Tommy Dorsey ; Dick McDonough ; Fats Waller ; George Wettling | Jazz/dance quintet | instrumentalist, drums | |
Victor | BS-06590 | 10-in. | 4/1/1937 | You can't run away from love tonight | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Carol Mackay | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-06591 | 10-in. | 4/1/1937 | 'Cause my baby says it's so | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-06592 | 10-in. | 4/1/1937 | Carelessly | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-06593 | 10-in. | 4/1/1937 | All dark people are light on their feet | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ford Leary | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-010163 | 10-in. | 5/13/1937 | The first time I saw you | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Ford Leary | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-010164 | 10-in. | 5/13/1937 | Love is a merry go round | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Sue Mitchell | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-010165 | 10-in. | 5/13/1937 | The image of you | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Sue Mitchell | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-010166 | 10-in. | 5/13/1937 | I'm happy, darling, dancing with you | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Sue Mitchell | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-010167 | 10-in. | 5/13/1937 | Swanee River | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-011673 | 10-in. | 8/7/1937 | Let 'er go | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Gail Reese | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-011674 | 10-in. | 8/7/1937 | Turn on that red hot heat (Burn your blues away) | Bunny Berigan Orchestra ; Gail Reese | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | CS-011675 | 12-in. | 8/7/1937 | I can't get started | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band, with male vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | CS-011676 | 12-in. | 8/7/1937 | The prisoner's song | Bunny Berigan Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | instrumentalist, traps | |
Victor | BS-030731 | 10-in. | 12/19/1938 | A room with a view | Artie Shaw Orchestra ; Helen Forrest | Jazz/dance band, with female vocal solo | instrumentalist, traps | |
Atlantic | 411 | 10-in. | 4/26/1950 | Crazy words - crazy tune - vo-do-de-o | Tommy Reynolds ; The Tom Cats | instrumentalist, drums | ||
Atlantic | 412 | 10-in. | 4/26/1950 | Did you come back to say goodbye? | Tommy Reynolds ; The Tom Cats | instrumentalist, drums | ||
Atlantic | 413 | 10-in. | 4/26/1950 | Oceana roll | Tommy Reynolds ; The Tom Cats | instrumentalist, drums | ||
Atlantic | 439 | 10-in. | 6/13/1950 | I'm nobody's baby | Dorothy Ann "Dottie" Dillard ; Will Bradley Orchestra | instrumentalist, drums |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Wettling, George," accessed November 6, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105504.
Wettling, George. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 6, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/105504.
"Wettling, George." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 November 2024.
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