[78-L] What is a...?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed May 6 18:03:10 PDT 2009


Lemme check..maybe he only did one of them. And I think my WIAB is a 
single-sided promo.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> What record has Jan Peerce's 'What is a girl' on the flip of 'What is
> a boy'?  My 78 of WIAB (a 10 inch Red Seal that plays 4.14) has
> 'Because of you' on the flip.
> 
> On 5/6/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
>>>>> The key  question here is "Why?"
>>>>> Cary Ginell
>>>>>
>>>>> What
>>>>> dc
>>>>>
>>>> Don't forget "When?"! (Kalin  Twins.)
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>>> Next we need a list of WHO  songs.  Then WHERE.  And WHEN, WHY, and HOW.
>>>>> I think there  would be a masters thesis in this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike (don't ask)  Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>>>
>>>> And "Who" was a big hit in the mid-'20s. (George Olsen and his Mucis)
>>>> Don Chichester
>>>>
>>> The Platters did WHERE, as did Ozzie Nelson with vocal by Harriet
>>> Hilliard.
>>> Likely two different songs.
>>> RayK
>>>
>> And Vic Damone (or maybe Tony Martin) did HERE (In This Enchanted Place),
>> borrowed from Rigoletto. Never returned, as far as I know.
>>
>> Years ago, we used to have to do segments on the radio called "foreground"
>> where we'd devote fifteen minutes to a particular subject, even though we
>> were
>> a pop music station (all FM stations in Canada had to do this a minimum
>> number
>> of times a day) so one copout I enjoyed was taking songs that were in the
>> music
>> universe anyway and linking them up as "Questions and Answers". One I got a
>> kick out of getting away with was
>>
>> WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF? (for those who don't remember the 70s, the next
>> line
>> is "When we were making love, Last night")
>> ME AND MRS. JONES
>> ME AND YOU AND A DOG NAMED BOO
>> ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
>>
>> dl
>>



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