[78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor

[David Lennick]

You want to see someone who gives you the creeps, look at any picture of Victor 
Young. He looks as if he's about to get the chair and still ain't gonna talk.

dl

Harold Aherne wrote:
> Frank Crumit's voice is not quite as polished as Whispering Jack Smith's, say, but
> it got better the more I listened and I came to realise what a versatile talent he really
> was. There are few others from that era who could move so flawlessly from country-ish
> songs like "Mountains Ain't No Place for Bad Men" (Vic 22021) and "The Pig Got Up
> and Slowly Walked Away" (Decca 313, and if he wasn't drunk while recording it he was
> a damn good actor!) to droll numbers like "Song of the Prune" (Vic 21430) to utterly
> perfect renditions of regular pop songs. "A Sunny Disposish" and "My Lady" 
> (Vic 20486) are delivered with a sincerity that most other singers of that time would
> envy. And his "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" (Vic 20462) is downright hilarious ("But 
> tonight will be the end / Yessirree 'cause I intend / To go up and kick him in the 
> vo-do-do-de-oh-do"). 
>  
> Certainly anyone has the right to disagree. But I think that Frank Crumit's singing
> is one of the joys of 78 collecting.
>  
> -Harold
> 
> --- On Thu, 3/19/09, martha <MLK402 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> From: martha <MLK402 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 9:49 PM
> 
> Frank Crumit has always given me the creeps, as he looked and sounded like a
> child 
> molester (or something equally nasty). I can't put my finger on WHY, but he
> just 
> did.
> 
> 
>