[78-L] Classy criticism of Chick Bullock [WAS: accents]

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Jun 12 09:23:44 PDT 2009


Stephen Davies wrote:
> I was looking into the provenance of "Alla en el rancho grande"; was it
> written by Silvano Ramos or was it a traditional Mexican folk song? I found
> this page which looks at a copyright court case from 1941. It has a short
> audio clip which doesn't include the vocal, but the author does comment on
> the singer of this recording:
> 
> <<<
>     The audio clip linked above was taken from big band leader Chick
>     Bullock’s recording of "Alla in el Rancho Grande" made in 1939 –
>     remarkable, in part, for the performer’s insouciance towards
>     inflectional differences between American English and Spanish.
> excerpted from: UCLA Law & Columbia Law School: Copyright Infringement
> Project
>     http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/case_marksstasney.html
> 
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
> 
> __________________________________________________________________________
Interesting stuff, although I think Chick's Spanish has an English 
rather than an American flavour! He does articulate the Spanish very 
well though.

      Julian Vein


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