[78-L] cdbpdx utube videos WAS Barbary Coast Orchestra

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Thanks for the kind words!  CDB

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net> wrote:

> From: I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
> Subject: [78-L] cdbpdx utube videos WAS Barbary Coast Orchestra
> To: ".78L" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 3:06 PM
> What a magnificient collection of
> videos, truly music recordings... the
> image is the record being played on a Garrard TT.
> 
> I'm amazed at the Nick Lucas recordings (Br 2536) I had
> never listened to
> before. I'd read about these recordings and Nick Lucas in
> Tim Gracyk's
> magazine and website, but this is the very first time I've
> been exposed to
> the art of Mr. Lucas.
> 
> BTW... some time ago (years, probably) I was chasing 78s
> and a wonder popped
> up, a french Brunswick issue (Br 1036) of the original US
> Br 4484, by ANDY
> SANELLA stg, playing "Sliding on the frets" and "Blues on
> the guitar". I've
> enjoyed Nick Lucas a lot, but still think Sanella is better
> on Br 4484.
> 
> 
> 
> Iñigo Cubillo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Barbary Coast Orchestra
> 
> 
> 78records at cdbpdx.com
> wrote:
> > I just picked up some studio recordings by the Barbary
> Coast Orchestra,
> recorded Dec 7, 1942.
> >
> >
> You put these on YouTube...
> http://www.youtube.com/user/cdbpdx
> 
> Also
> http://www.samswansen.com/barbary.htm
> 
> Still exist
> http://hop.dartmouth.edu/assets/pdf/notes-fall07-bcje.pdf
> 
> During the band years, many college bands, amateur and
> semi-professional, worked their ways through college in
> this manner.
> 
> Hal Kemp was discovered by Specht, who booked them on
> cruise lines
> during the summer in the early 20's. Specht may have worked
> with this
> band too.
>  From http://www.samswansen.com/barbary.htm
> 
> "The rest of 1929-30 at Dartmouth was a musical hodgepodge.
> Yes, it was
> a big movie year. /The Broadway Melody /was full of hit
> songs, including
> “You Were Meant For Me.” Big bang programs were
> crowding the evening
> hours on radio. Record buyers had a choice of “When
> You’re Smiling” by
> gravel-voiced Louis Armstrong, “Am I Blue” by Ethel
> Waters, or “Moanin’
> Low,” which Libby Holman sang in a new style as the first
> great torch
> song. Nick Lucas rode lightly through “Tiptoe Through the
> Tulips”
> (faithfully copied a generation or two later by Tiny Tim).
> Fats Waller
> talked to his piano with “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” Rudy
> Vallee hypnotized the
> girls with “I’m Just a Vagabond Lover.” Hoagy
> Carmichael’s immortal
> “Stardust” got its third and best recording (even
> without a vocal) by
> Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang, with Miff Mole,
> Jimmy Dorsey, Pee
> Wee Russell, and Hoagy himself on piano.
> 
> The *Barbary* *Coast* was much in evidence at party time.
> They starred
> at the Statler during the Harvard-Dartmouth game weekend,
> although until
> the last minute the band was touted as a prime attraction
> at the rival
> ball at the Copley Plaza. At fall House Parties the *Coast*
> held forth
> at Tri Kap. They were then signed for the first Green key
> prom in March.
> Over the Christmas holiday they were picked from a large
> group of
> Eastern college *orchestra* candidates for the nine-day
> West Indies
> cruise of the Cunard liner /S.S. Carmania./ The band
> included Johnny
> Hahn '30, leader, Jeff Jeffrey, George Sarles, Paul
> Freeman, Frank
> Hodson, Frank Marks, and Gene Hammett ’33, a talented
> freshman sax
> player who later led the band. For the Carnival Ball, the
> *Barbary*
> *Coast* held forth in the Trophy Room at the gymnasium
> while Paul
> *Specht* and his *orchestra* played in the cavernous gym
> upstairs."
> 
> --
> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. #:?)
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