[78-L] Help identifying an artist/tune

[David Lennick]

I can't get the link to work, but could it be Franklyn McCormack talking over 
"Melody of Love"? Famous old Wayne King record. McCormack reads "Why I Love 
You" (Victor 27713).

dl

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> I notice several requests here lately asking for help identifying an artist
> and/or tune, and I am going to join the ranks.
> 
> There is a record I've only heard on an old Hawthorne aircheck, of a man
> "talking" over a song, I am not sure of the name of the song, but I think
> it's called "Because You Love Me".  I need to know the name of the artist.
> 
> I asked around among the likely suspects who might know when I was at the
> last 78 meet in Los Angeles, and no one knew the answer... all I could
> gather was the name of a similar artist who billed himself as "The
> Continental" and had a french accent.  That's not this guy.
> 
> You can hear the record I'm asking about if you click this link, which is
> the Hawthorne aircheck I heard it on from August 1947:
> 
> http://www.box.net/shared/pce1yyniov
> 
> Hawthorne plays the song during the first third of the show, and talks over
> it, as Hawthorne always did, to hilarious effect, but can anyone help and
> tell me who that guy is on the record?  Hawth doesn't back-announce it...
> 
> Just curious...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrea
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