[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?
> 
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 



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