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

[David Lennick]

Or "and then up her airs"..that's the story I've always heard, and it was 
mentioned here earlier. The same song on Standard Transcriptions doesn't have 
that confusion, and broadcasters certainly would have noticed it.

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> Has it ever been disproved that, on Spike Jones recording of "By The Sea,"
> you can hear someone in the orchestra sing the words......"over and under
> and then up your a**?"
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: David Lennick
> Date: 4/18/2009 4:10:01 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] BACKGROUND ARTIFACTS (WAS Hal Kemp record question)
>  
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>