[78-L] Kitty to Rosie to Jane

[Taylor Bowie]

David,  Feel free to call me anytime and I'll play it for you over the 
phone.  For no extra charge I will sing along to it!

Taylor


P.S.  Those two Jane Morgan cuts you like are excellent...esp. A Girl Named 
Johnny Cash!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kitty to Rosie to Jane


> If you have to have Jane Morgan's Fascination, the Canadian Kapp pressing 
> is
> indeed the one to have. Me, I can't stomach that one..or, frankly, much 
> else by
> her. Two exceptions: "With Open Arms" (A-pling-a-chung) and "A Girl Named
> Johnny Cash" (one of Martin Mull's lesser known songwriting efforts).
>
> It used to be a waltz..I'm not about to listen to it again to see whether 
> they
> stretched it out.
>
> dl
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Didn't mean to cast aspersions on anyone's musical taste...I often get 
>> hit
>> for my own!
>>
>> I guess Kitty's 50s stuff wouldn't  irk me so much if I didn't know what 
>> she
>> had been doing in the 40s.
>>
>> For a 50s pop best-seller female singer ballad record,  I'll go with some 
>> of
>> Rosie Clooney's better sides.
>>
>> Maybe my fave of that genre (also due to my parent's 45 collection) is 
>> Jane
>> Morgan's "Fascination" with that wonderful sort of Euro-pop orchestra 
>> (the
>> label calls them The Troubadours!).   I was also happy to replace that 
>> with
>> a very clean and smooth 78 pressing...I think it's a Canadian pressing.
>>
>> Speaking of that record,  can one of you literate musicians explain the 
>> time
>> signature on that one to me?  At one time I thought it was a 3/4
>> waltz....but that ain't it exactly.  So "Teach Me Tonight" if you please!
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kitty was a cool cat
>>
>>
>>> I. Cubillo wrote:
>>>> Hep-hep... Bop, bop!
>>>>
>>>> I want to break a stick or two in honour of Kitty Kallen "Little Things
>>>> Mean
>>>> a Lot" and "I don't think you love me anymore"...
>>>>
>>>> A FAVORITE record since I was a child, and discovered it in my father's
>>>> albums of 45s.
>>> Hope he hadn't hidden it among a batch of Ruth Wallis records.
>>>
>>> dl
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