Jack O’Brien

The song title “My Greatest Mistake” could easily make reference to one pianist named Jack O’Brien being recognised incorrectly as another — it really couldn’t have anything regarding the song itself, seeing how it had been recorded greater than a dozen times by a number of the greatest jazz artists. Such a hit of ore was what every songwriter and piano tinkler such as for example O’Brien centered on every day upon descending in to the Tin Skillet Alley mines. This stands as opposed to another Jack port O’Brien, who proved helpful being a pianist in jazz rings in a number of elements of the globe during an overlapping time frame, but mostly being a sideman and evidently with barely a songwriting dabble. “My Ideal Mistake,” created in collaboration using the prolific Jack port Fulton, is evidently the most well-known song O’Brien provides ever been connected with. His whole catalog contains “Thumbs Up,” a 1941 work that his collaborator was tunesmith Bert Lown; this is the state theme song from the United kingdom War Relief Culture. Being a pianist, O’Brien’s collaborators included Ted Weems and Glen Carr, the last mentioned an orchestra movie director trying to create “My Greatest Mistake” his personal melody. Piano credits linked to bandleaders such as for example Lud Gluskin and Enoch Light participate in another O’Brien, mixed up in New England region through the entire ’70s.