[78-L] Did "the modernaires" record "Daddy"?

[David Lennick]

Checking through their later recordings for Coral, I find that the Modernaires 
recorded 'DADDY, YOU'VE BEEN A MOTHER TO ME' in 1953, but no "Daddy".

dl

P G C wrote:
> Thanks Dave, this confirms that such recording existed, so maybe the 78rpm disc was also an RCA release, and it should be berore 1945, lost for ever.
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> Regards, JorgeF. (PGC)
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> They did it with Glenn Miller, on a live recording issued on an RCA LP, but
> not on 78 with Glenn. 
> 
> Dave
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> Friends,
> this is not off topic since it is about a 78rpm recording (real or
> fictitious) and
> I hope this new "dumb" question may generate a long thread as some of my
> early ones.
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> 
> My father
> and is older brother (both past some years ago) claimed they had a 78rpm
> record with "the
> modernaires" singing "Daddy" (maybe from mid 40s), it was their favorite.
> My
> mother (still with us), remembers she accidentally broke the record in the
> early 50s.
> Since then,
> they (we) looked for the recording everywhere, in the 60s, 70s and 80s I
> found some vinyl
> recordings of the piece, but not with these singers, in the 90s I got some
> CD
> compilations of the vocal group but not "Daddy" there. I got then the Sammy
> Kaye 1941
> version, another one (same band, newer?) and one from Ambrose AHO (all on
> CD).
> The questions
> are:
> Did "the
> modernaires" record "Daddy"?
> Was it under
> they own name, a pseudonym or as vocalists of a Big Band?
> Thanks in
> advance.
> 
> Regards, JorgeF. (PGC)
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