[78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES

George Anglin packardmarmon1940 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 10 09:32:59 PST 2009


My votes for Ramona. In the early sixties, I used to carry her groceries out to her car at a local super market. She used to winter in Tucson, Ariz. I was 16 at the time. One day I brought a record of hers to work with me for her to autograph. Man was she surprised. George Anglin


--- On Sat, 2/7/09, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Comparo
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 3:36 PM
> Nothing can be far enough from Ramona!
> 
> Al S.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "warren moorman"
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> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Comparo
> 
> 
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Sat, 2/7/09, simmonssomer
> <simmonssomer at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> From: simmonssomer
> <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> >> Subject: [78-L] Comparo
> >> To: "78-L Mail List"
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> >> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:28 AM
> >> Let's hear a vote for  ladies who sang, played
> the piano
> >> and recorded
> >> prolifically on 78's.
> >> Who votes for Ramona
> >> Who votes for Hildegarde
> >> Who votes for Hazel Scott
> >> Who votes for Sarah Vaughan
> >> Who votes for Mary Lou Williams ("My Mama
> Pinned A
> >> Rose on Me") you can look
> >> it up 1978.
> >> Who votes for Annette Hanshaw
> >>
> >> Who votes for those I've left out?
> >>
> >> Al S.
> >>
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