[78-L] Kitty to Rosie to Jane

[David Lennick]

As Stan Freberg was heard to say to Jesse White's record producer character, 
"Man, don't even let it touch my turntable!" Frances Langford is warbling "Rap, 
Tap on Wood" right now.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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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