[78-L] Another Columbia question

[David Lennick]

Ken Griffin's instrumental and vocal versions of You Can't Be True Dear sold 
something like three and a half million copies.

I have made it my mission to break every one I come in contact with (yeah, 
Doyle, I know about that rock-hard DJ copy you keep in the garage..I may borrow 
that to fling at the raccoons).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Be_True,_Dear

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> "Toolie-Oolie-Doolie" was also recorded by the Andrews Sisters for Decca.
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> Bud 
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Michael Biel
> Date: 4/20/2009 5:53:24 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Another Columbia question
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Something about seized Alien Property.
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> That's what I figured, which is why I thought it might have been
> recorded during the war.  Hadn't the property rights been returned by
> 1948, or were some of the composers confirmed Nazis?
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>> Eddie is also credited on the Marlin Sisters' "Toolie Oolie Oolie"
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> Not on the copy I have sitting here in front of me.
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>> ..which I have actually listened to all the way through, and survived
>> (along with drinking Genesee..what's the third death-defying stunt
>> I have to perform in order to win eternal life?) but isn't audible
>> on it, to my recollection.  dl
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> You're a better man than I am, Gunga David.  I haven't been able to work
> up the courage to even sample that side.  And actually it is titled
> "Toolie Oolie Doolie" and is subtitled "(The Yodel Polka)".  There's no
> accounting for taste.  Did Ken Griffin record this one also?
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> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
>> I have that 78 in my vast collection of 200 78's. I don't remember seeing
>> that notation. I can check but it would take hours.
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> Are you being sarcastic about 200 78s?  Or is that a typo?  I BOUGHT
> that many yesterday alone!
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>> Both sides charted in June 1948. This was before Eddie was supposedly
>> discovered by Eddie Cantor, and long before he went into the Army in 1951.
>> So it's more likely something to do with the song YOU CAN'T BE TRUE DEAR
>> which is German, DU KANNST NICHT TREU SEIN. But the war with Germany was
>> over by 1948 so I don't quite get it.
>> This version was outsold by Ken Griffin's, I had to get that in.  RayK
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> From: "Michael Biel"
>>> This seems to be the day for questions about Columbia records. This one
>>> is a Red label Columbia I picked up yesterday that has a strange credit
>>> on it. It is 38211 (mx. CO 38825-1) "You Can't Be True, Dear" by The
>>> Marlin Sisters with Eddie Fisher. Accompanied by The Columbians. Eddie
>>> Fisher on Columbia is what first sparked my attention. But under that
>>> artist credit is "Recorded by special permission of the U.S. Attorney
>>> General under license No. E1277". The other side does not include
>>> Eddie, nor does it have that permission notice. Does that permission
>>> notice have something to do with Eddie (was he in the Armed Forces at
>>> the time, for example) or could it have something to do with wartime
>>> enemy property such as German or Italian composers or music publishers?
>>> The composer credits are Ebeler - Cotton - Otten - Griffin. When was
>>> this recorded? Was it during the war? And is this Eddie Fisher's first
>>> record, or nearly first record? If it is his first record, is it worth
>>> as much as some dealers on E-say seem to think Frank Sinatra's first
>>> record is worth?
>>>
>>> Mike (this one only cost me 50 cents) Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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