[78-L] Comparo

[Taylor Bowie]

I'd generally rather have a V- electric Okeh than a brand new Broadway.

Taylor



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From: "Gregg Kimball" <gdkimball at cox.net>
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>I have one--pretty rough but fairly listenable--amazing how those electric
> Okehs play.
>
> Gregg
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> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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>>I think she's great...wish I had some of her 78s.
>>
>> Taylor
>>
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>>>
>>> I guess this doesn't fit the "prolifically" part, but Arizona Dranes
>>> played
>>> some killer piano on her gospel sides and was certainly influential.  I
>>> expect that many here will not find her vocals appealing, but there is a
>>> raw
>>> power there--coming straight at you from the Holiness church!
>>>
>>> Gregg Kimball
>>>
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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>>>> Al..she was a fine piano player.  And over the years,  I've gotten to
>>>> tolerate and even sort of like some of her singing...but it takes time
>>>> and
>>>> effort!
>>>>
>>>> Taylor B
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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>>>>> Nothing can be far enough from Ramona!
>>>>>
>>>>> Al S.
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>>>>> From: "warren moorman" <wlmoorman3 at yahoo.com>
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>>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:46 PM
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>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If truly limiting it to Al's criteria of "prolifically" recorded on
>>>>>> 78:
>>>>>> Julia Lee, Hadda Brooks, Nellie Lutcher.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If allowing less prolific: Una Mae Carlisle, Cleo Brown, Gladys
>>>>>> Palmer,
>>>>>> Betty Hall Jones, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But if, as Al did with Mary Lou Williams' rare vocals, one is 
>>>>>> allowing
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> most liberal criteria, then it opens up to the whole big blues
>>>>>> contingent;
>>>>>> Someone said Victoria Spivey, I'll play Georgia White and raise you
>>>>>> Leola
>>>>>> Manning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Most of all, I think of the most fascinatingly unique of great
>>>>>> singing,
>>>>>> great piano playing women commercially recorded on 78, also a
>>>>>> transcribed
>>>>>> network radio performer, and the white female singer with the most
>>>>>> convincingly black sounding vocal style, 'Cile Turner. Also a fine
>>>>>> guitarist and African percussionist; a pretty far cry from Ramona,
>>>>>> though.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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