[78-L] Early Blues in Europe

[yves francois]

Rainer
 Certainly Mezz Mezzrow, was the person to introduce Hughes Panassie to vocal blues 78's. Mezz likes Bessie Smith quite a bit, and probably introcued it tio Hughes, who then, in his way to tring to get to know as much as possible about all these forms of A


--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Birgit Lotz Verlag <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de> wrote:

> From: Birgit Lotz Verlag <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de>
> Subject: [78-L] Early Blues in Europe
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 3:02 PM
> Thanks to all who were kind enough to offer thoughts and
> facts.
> I always wondered whether US radio stations aired
> "race" records before 
> the 1950s. The irony is that Gunter Boas - a German record
> collector, 
> jazz pianist and blues vocalist - upon being freed from
> Buchenwald 
> concentration camp (he had listened to enemy radio)
> moderated "Blues for 
> Monday", a radio program entirely devoted to classic
> vocal blues on AFN, 
> from 1949 through to 1957. He might well have been the
> first person 
> anywhere in the world to have done so, can anyone prove me
> wrong?
> And I am still curious how Panassie, Delaunay, et al knew
> about vocal 
> blues 78s...
> 
> Rainer E. Lotz
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