[78-L] The 5 most influential 78s ever

[simmonssomer]

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>I think "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley had ten times the influence 
>any Elvis Sun record had.
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> I would also vote for "My Blue Heaven" by Gene Austin, for triggering 
> generations of crooners, and "Blue Yodel" by Jimmie Rodgers, for 
> triggering the entire country music industry.
>
> Cary Ginell

But for the fact that ,unlike Austin, the popular crooners following in his 
footsteps do not sound as if they'd been altered.
Even Rudy Vallee  put some lowered register sturdiness into his voice 
thereby changing his tessitura toward a more masculine sound. And certainly, 
Crosby didn't owe Austin a thing. (Nor did Durante (-:)
Nope, I think Austin signaled the end of an era, not the start of one.
And so we say a sad farewell to Austin (whom I cannot listen to) and to 
Smith Ballew(whom I can)  and who, at least, actualy rode into the sunset.

Al "Buh Buh Buh boo" Simmons



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> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Subject: [78-L] The 5 most influential 78s ever
> From: "Erwin Kluwer" <ekluwer at gmail.com>
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>> meaning on the development of music during the last century:
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> I disagree with this list in many ways if we are to take the above
> statement to mean that these records had an influence on the development
> of music that would not have happened without it, or that these were not
> merely results of what was already happening in music.
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>> I would dare to say.
>> First Caruso G&T (Germania arias)
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> Opera was doing very fine, thank you, and was very popular even here in
> the United States, especially that there was a very large immigrant
> population at that time.  Caruso has been credited in advancing the
> popularity of the phonograph or of opera on the phonograph, but not as
> much for increasing the popularity of opera, per se.
>
>> ODJB (yes!) Livery Stable Blues
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> I might agree that this might be considered a record that helped spread
> the sound nationwide, so perhaps it might fit the definition.
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>> Blind Lemon Jefferson Got the Blues/Long Lonesome Blues
>> Charley Parker Dial KoKo
>> Elvis SUN That's All Right/ Blue Moon of Kentucky
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> I think all three of these are being considered retroactively.  I don't
> think that these had influence on the PUBLIC at the time they were
> released. These were on poorly distributed minor regional labels.   Did
> they have influence on other musicians at the time of their release?????
> Did other musicians hear these performers thru other means more than on
> the records themselves?  Radio?  Live performances?  After hour jams?
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>> And now let's hide....!!
>> Erwin
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> No, it's an interesting start, and 12 hours have passed and mine is the
> first response (unless the 78-L is down again!)
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> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
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