[78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES

[simmonssomer]

Too bad you never carried Hildegarde's groceries.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Anglin" <packardmarmon1940 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES


> 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"
>> <wlmoorman3 at yahoo.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List"
>> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> 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"
>> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> >> 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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