[78-L] Hal Kemp record question

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Fri Apr 17 10:02:57 PDT 2009


It's really audible,  and I can remember hearing it on the crappy phonograph 
I had in the late 60s.

Let me know when you've played it...it's more severe than most such things 
I've encountered.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Hal Kemp record question


>I have it, someplace..will check. But coughing during intros is probably 
>very
> common on records and on radio broadcasts, since for the most part nobody 
> had
> sophisticated audio equipment to detect it.
>
> Of course it could be Joe Venuti sneaking another debatable cuss word into 
> the
> works.
>
> dl
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> OK,  I'm ready to tear down the curtain of silence here.
>>
>> One of my fave of the later Hal Kemp Orch records is Victor 26300 of 
>> "Let's
>> Do It" with a great vocal by The Smoothies.
>>
>> I have listened to this record for years,  and at two points in it I 
>> swear I
>> hear somebody...coughing.  One is during the little intro passage,  and 
>> the
>> second is right as the reeds start their first passage in the chorus.
>>
>> If anyone has this record,  please play it and let me know if I'm hearing
>> things or just "hearing things."
>>
>> Thanks from
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>> P.S.  Just got the Blue Wax Columbia of Reginald Forsythe doing an
>> interesting piano solo version of St. Louis Blues...where was that 
>> recorded?
>>
>> T
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm at 78data.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:25 AM
>> Subject: [78-L] Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>>
>>
>>> Jeez, Louise, don't tell me this is day two without anyone having
>>> anything  to say except one member? Well, two, if you count me.
>>> This can't be right. In all the years I've been on 78L I've never seen
>>> it happen.
>>> Hmmm... Maybe ARSC decided to hold it's conference early.
>>> Mal
>>>
>>>
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