[78-L] Sunny Skylar

[David Lennick]

Sol Kendis, meet Sonny Sheftel.

Vait a minute....

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> He sings on some of my favorite sweet band records:  those with George 
> Hall's orch and also the fantastic "A Night At the Stork Club" 4-record 
> album set on Columbia,  singing with Sonny (aka Sol) Kendis and his great 
> little band.
> 
> I think I first heard Gotta Be This Or That when I was about six years old 
> back in the 50s...I love that song,  ditto his American lyrics for all those 
> pretty Latin tunes.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Sunny Skylar, Snooks Eaglin both died
> 
> 
> So he DID go to Schul.
> 
> I guess he went overboard in anglicizing his name..he's definitely Schuyler 
> in
> 30s recordings and Kinkle lists him as Schuyler (later Skylar). Rust has
> Schuyler for the George Hall sides.
> 
> dl
> 
> Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
>> <<SUNNY SKYLAR, one of the last surviving 'Tin Pan Alley' songwriters
>> and a former big band vocalist, died on February 2. He was 95
>>
>> Born Selig Shaftel in Brooklyn, N.Y. Oct. 11, 1913, Sunny Skylar was
>> the composer and/or lyricist if more than 300 songs, dozens of them
>> standards.