[78-L] Help identifying an artist/tune

[Andrea Walsh]

I am not sure that you identified it, I'd need to hear it to make sure it's
the same one.  I'm sorta particular that way...  :)


Thanks-
Andrea


On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 9:20 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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