[78-L] [78L RAMONA DAVIES

[David Lennick]

Now that I think of it (and I generally try not to), she plays the piano along 
with Vernon Duke on some of the sides in that collection, and Rust lists her 
"at the piano" on some later Deccas. This is one performer I can't stand except 
for a few of the earliest sides, before she fell in love with herself. Aak. I 
need to cleanse my mental palate with some Big Mama Thornton right about now.

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>>> /