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After Hours
"After Hours" was first recorded by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra in 1940, and thereafter became a blues piano standard.  Although this recording is always credited to "Erskine Hawkins," that gentleman, a trumpeter in the orchestra that bears his name, is virtually unheard on the recording.  The man whose tickling of the ivories is so familiar to us WLAC listeners is actually pianist and arranger Avery Parrish, who also composed this wonderful tune.