[78-L] Two singers who cause me pain

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Mon Apr 6 19:45:07 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> I enjoy all the recordings on that page that I've listened to so far, 
> especially her inimitable
> rendition of "He's So Unusual". The 1929 Grey Gull (or maybe Van Dyke?) of 
> "Singin'
> in the Bathtub" doesn't have quite as good of an accompaniment as you'd 
> find on the
> bigger labels, but I find her interpolation "a rainbow FROM me" instead of 
> "a rainbow
> TO me" absolutely side-splittingly hilarious, and we'll never know if it 
> was intentional.
>
If it were on VD, It is very probable it also appeared on VD...!!

...stevenc 




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