[78-L] Morey Amsterdam on Sunset

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Tue Jun 9 20:14:56 PDT 2009


>> Sunset 1140 (No Master Numbers)    ca. 1925
>> Morey Amsterdam
>> Side A-Show Me The Way to Go Home (King)
>> Side B- If You Didn't Care (Amsterdam)
>>
> The above suggests that IF the party on Sunset is/was the "famous" Morey
> Amsterdam, he would have been 16 or 17 when he recorded...?!
>
> ...stevenc


Not impossible or even improbable...his Dick Van Dyke co-star recorded at an 
even younger age...Rose Marie was 8 or 9 when she cut the two sides with 
Fletcher Henderson.  Morey was active in show biz from age 12 or so.

Taylor 




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