[78-L] Help identifying an artist/tune

[Andrea Walsh]

The link works ok for me, it won't work for you?  Sorry!

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:47 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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