[78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller

[Randy Watts]

Odds are it was the Etta James recording. Hers is a very nice performance, and I'm admittedly in and out when it comes to Etta.

Randy


--- On Wed, 1/21/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 10:13 PM
> Is that the version that was featured in an episode of
> Boston Legal? Gorgeous, 
> but I hadn't heard it before (hey, I don't know
> EVERY freakin' record ever made).
> 
> dl
> 
> Randy Watts wrote:
> > Aside from Bing's "White Christmas" and
> Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow,"
> contemporary culture seems unaware that recordings existed
> prior to 1955. From that prevailing point of view, "At
> Last" has to be an Etta James song, even though we know
> better.
> > 
> > Randy 
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Wed, 1/21/09, Michael Biel
> <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and
> ignoring Glenn Miller
> >> To: "78-L Mail List"
> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 7:44 PM
> >> What was *really* in question was the availability
> to the
> >> public of a 
> >> Miller recording of the song to establish it as a
> Miller
> >> song, not an 
> >> Etta James song.  It was on the flip of Kalamazoo
> which was
> >> a pretty big 
> >> hit, so Etta's single was a johnny come
> lately. 
> >>
> >> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >>> David Weiner wrote:
> >>>  > The Miller soundtrack recordings were
> issued for
> >> the first time
> >>>  > by RCA on LP in 1954 and by 20th Century
> Fox in
> >> 1959. Dave W.
> >>> But it had already been out on 78.  RCA Victor
> 27934
> >> recorded May 20, 
> >>> 1942 on  072285-1   Mike Biel
> >>> ---------
> >>>
> >>> That was the COMMERCIAL recording on 78 - I
> was
> >> referring to the two
> >>> different Miller SOUNDTRACK recordings -
> different
> >> arrangements and
> >>> vocalists - made for SUN VALLEY SERENADE in
> 1941 and
> >> ORCHESTRA WIVES in 1942
> >>> that made their first appearance only on LP. 
> >>>
> >>> Dave W.
> > 
> > 
> 
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