[78-L] Bell bottom trousers

[RAY KILCOYNE]

> David Lennick wrote:
>> Jerry Colonna
>> Tony Pastor
>> Guy Lombardo
>> The Jesters
>> Kay Kyser
>> Louis Prima
>>
>> Of these, I haven't heard the Kyser and can't remember the Jesters 
>> version. But
>> it seemed to me that the Prima retained a little of the salt of the 
>> original.
>>
>> dl
> ---------
> Kay Kyser's version is mainly of interest for the great tenor sax solo
> by Herbie Haymer, where briefly the band sounds like Illinois Jacquet
> with Basie!
>
> Ginny Simms and Connee Boswell both did it on V-Disc. I agree about the
> Prima version.
>
>      Julian Vein
>
I listened to the Jesters and it is also the cleaned up version, which seems 
to have revised lyrics by Moe Jaffe, of  I'M MY OWN GRANDPA fame and 
hundreds of other songs.
There was also a 78 on Deluxe 1000 by the Four Blues which sounds 
suspicious.  I found streaming audio of it at this site.  I can't listen to 
it because I refuse to download Realaudio again after it messed up my iTunes 
once before.  But if someone already has Realaudio, maybe they can listen 
and report back.  There is also a label scan and Jaffe is credited........

http://www.vocalgroupharmony.com/BellBotm.htm

RayK