Global InformationWhen Icky Morgan Plays the Organ information
| "When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ" | |
|---|---|
 "When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ" by Clark Randall featuring Glenn Miller, Brunswick 7415,1935. | |
| Single by Clark Randall and his Orchestra | |
| A-side | "Troublesome Trumpet" |
| Released | 1935 |
| Recorded | 1935 |
| Genre | Big band, jazz |
| Length | 2:52 |
| Label | Brunswick |
| Songwriter(s) | Glenn Miller |
"When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ" is a 1935 big band and jazz song written by Glenn Miller. The song was released as a 78 single by Clark Randall and his Orchestra on Brunswick.
"When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ" was released as a Brunswick 10inch 78 single in 1935 as Brunswick 7415 backed with "Troublesome Trumpet".[1]
"When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ" was a novelty song composed and recorded by Glenn Miller in 1935 when he was a member of the Clark Randall Orchestra, which featured Bob Crosby, Gil Rodin, Nappy Lamare, and singer Frank Tennille, the father of Toni Tennille of the Captain and Tennille, whose pseudonym was Clark Randall.[2]
The unique title of the song comes from the "icky" slang expression that Dick Morgan, an eccentric member of the Ben Pollack orchestra, used. Dick Morgan was the banjo and guitar player in the Ben Pollack band, who also used a realistic replica of a python in his act with the Pollack band.[1] George Simon recalled how the song came about: "Glenn composed one of the songs, "When Icky Morgan Plays the Organ, Look Out!" — dedicated to his good friend Dick Morgan, who had played guitar in Pollack's band." Miller recorded ten songs with the Clark Randall orchestra in March, 1935.
The song appears on the 2001 compilation album Bob Crosby and His Orchestra: And Then Some, Parts 1 and 2 of the Complete Discography on Halcyon, HALC 142, and the 2005 compilation series The Glenn Miller Story, Vol. 1-2 on Avid Entertainment. The recording is also on Bob Crosby & His Orchestra. Rarities No. 41, a vinyl LP album, catalogue number 41, which was released on Rarities Records, Copenhagen, Denmark, appearing as "When Icky Morgan Plays His Organ".
- ^ In 1936, Bob Crosby and his Orchestra, most of whose members played on the Randall version, performed this composition on the Ford V-8 Revue.
- ^ U.S. Library of Congress. Copyright Entries. The song was copyrighted on June 6, 1935 and published by Mills Music, Inc. in New York.