[78-L] 'Gay'.

[Royal Pemberton]

Somewhere I have a rather battered Japanese 78 by a group called
Victor Gay Quintet, 'Boogie in F' b/w 'Lady and music' (Victor P
1351)....I'd say it dates from between the mid-1930s and the early
1940s.  Odd cutting; sides end in a single eccentric groove in the
manner of the later 1920s deep double eccentrics of US Victors,
although the single groove is the same depth as the recorded groove.
Dead wax on both sides sports the oval VE symbol.

On 1/26/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Farming may be the only song (at least from this period) where the word is
> used
> with both meanings! Georgie's bull is gay, and Farming..makes 'em feel more
> glamorous and more gay.
>
> dl
>
> Michael Shoshani wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 00:51 -0500, David Lennick wrote:
>>> Don't inquire of Georgie Raft/Why his cow has never calfed/Georgie's bull
>>> is
>>> beautiful but he's gay. Forgot about that lyric. Danny Kaye on Columbia
>>> (he
>>> sang it in the show) and Mary Jane Walsh on LMS.
>>
>> Then there's "gay" as in nonchalant and carefree, in that
>> recalled-and-supressed Mills Brothers paeon to the Works Progress
>> Administration:
>>
>> Don't mind the boss if he's cross when you're gay,
>> He'll get his pink slip next month anyway,
>> Three little letters that make life okay -
>> W. P. A.
>>
>> MS
>
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