[78-L] Another Velvet Tone mystery
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jun 28 19:33:01 PDT 2009
This one was a bit hard to trace because the second side turns out to be Crazy
Words--Crazy Tune (Vo-Do-De-O), not Vo Do De O Blues. The Columbia books list
Gertrude Dwyer and Arthur Fields. (Hard to trace because I was trying to find
nearby matrix numbers common to both titles in the index.)
dl
Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I just bought but have not received Velvet Tone #1344. Gertrude Dwyer &
> Arthur Fields. I Gotta Get Myself Somebody To Love b/w Vo-Do-Do-De-O Blues.
>
> I had guessed as soon as I saw it listed that the woman had to be Vaughn
> DeLeath...but Sutton says that Gertrude was a real performer although he
> found two other records on Bell where they used her name as a pseudo for
> Vaughn.
>
> Anybody own this record, or who has heard it...what's the verdict? Is it
> VD or is it Memorex?
>
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> Taylor
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