[78-L] Help identifying an artist/tune

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 3 21:20:25 PST 2009


More a problem with my system not liking Windows Media Player..it just lays 
there. One of these years I'll deal with it. Hey, I identified the record 
without hearing it so who needs to listen anyway?

dl

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> 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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