[78-L] Victor Young

[Taylor Bowie]

Looks like a tough Russian boy,  which he was...but jeez he wrote beautiful 
melodies!

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: Kitty O'Connor


> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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