[78-L] BACKGROUND ARTIFACTS (WAS Hal Kemp record question)

[David Lennick]

Okay, gang..if it's there, it's at 1:36. IF it's there. I have my doubts. It 
sorta sounds like "Ah, f*** yerself" but it also sounds like "Ah, mock it up" 
(I'm serious..I really don't hear anything as bad as the equally disputed 
Barnacle Bill the ****head in this).

dl

JACK DANEY wrote:
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> Better than that is Harry James' 1941 recording of "The Devil Sat Down &
> Cried." On the instrumental interlude between vocals one can (almost)
> plainly hear someone way off mike shout, "Aw, go F...yourself!"  I'd never
> noticed it until it was brought to my attention by the local small record
> shop proprietor in the mid forties. Once having heard it it was impossible
> to miss. I asked Helen Forrest (who is on the record) about it when I worked
> with her in 1956. She was unaware but said that with that band in those
> days, anything could happen. It's on all the reissues I've heard, btw.  Next
> case....
> JD
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