[78-L] Rollini with Shaw on Vocalion

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Fri May 1 20:29:08 PDT 2009


I was hoping that someone would check back who had listened to both takes of 
the  Rollini gold label Vocalion of How Can It Be A Beautiful Day as I'm 
curious if both takes have the same coda ending.

Also about the same record...all the reference works (Rust, BG, the Shaw 
book) give Berigan as the trumpet.  Who has listened to the records who can 
back this up?  To my ears,  the guy doesn't sound even a little like Bunny. 
Also...I don't recall ever hearing Berigan on any other record where he 
plays the lead and the entire record with a straight mute...he seemed to be 
very partial to derby or cup mutes but always (?) played at least some open 
horn as well,  at least on the commercial dance sides I've heard from 1930 - 
35.

Any post-listening thoughts about this?

Taylor





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