[78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Wed Feb 11 14:17:50 PST 2009


You should hear her bang away (and I do mean BANG) on "Now" Decca 23161.
A chanteuse with an attitude.

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES


> But did Hildy play the piano? Or only practice it? (Columbia 272-M)
>
> dl
>
> simmonssomer wrote:
>> 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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