[78-L] Ronald Frankau q

[davdieh at aol.com]

 Yes, B9321 is from what appears to be his last recording session. He continued to appear on stage and in films. It is strange that such a prolific recording personality should suddenly abandon the medium; a most inexplicable eggsit.
David Diehl


 
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I haven't been following the Ronald Frankau discussion closely but I see he 
appears on HMV's : B9246, B9267 and B9321
?
RB

--- On Sat, 2/5/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Ronald Frankau q
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, 2 May, 2009, 5:44 PM

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 
>> Talk about "disappearing" a guy..the 1950 Parlophone
catalogue doesn't 
>> list him
>> at all and the 1948 HMV catalogue has only the "Alice in
Wonderland" set 
>> where
>> he played Humpty Dumpty. If he recorded for anyone, it wasn't for
EMI.
>>
>> dl
> 
> After the strain of playing Humpty Dumpty,  no doubt the poor guy just 
> cracked.
> 
> Taylor
> 
Apparently he was just a shell of his former self....that's a yolk, son.

dl

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