[78-L] On the fly

[simmonssomer]

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From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 3:25 PM
Subject: [78-L] On the fly


>
>
> Whozzat/ Smith Balloon? ..and Orville Knapp...didn't they invent flying ?
>
> Al S.
>
>
> Nope...they were there at Kitty Hawk,  but Smith Balloon drifted away, and
> Orville Knapp slept through it.
>
> The irony...Knapp was killed in the crash of his own plane in 1936.  He 
> was
> practicing take-offs and landings.  He had recently married a talented
> singer and actress from Seattle named Gloria Grafton.  She made a great
> record  for Victor in 1934  of  "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" which she had
> introduced in a Broadway show called Kill That Story.
>
> She was a star in Billy Rose's Jumbo in 1935,  and recorded "Little Girl
> Blue" with Whiteman,  b/w a duet with Donald Novis (I think) of "The Most
> Beautiful Girl in the World."
>
> I got interested in both Knapp and Grafton early on in my collecting,  and
> had no idea until recently that they had been married.  Same thing  even
> earlier for me when I started avidly collecting both Margaret Young and
> Margaret Whiting without knowing they were aunt and niece.
>
> Taylor
>
Anyone singing with Whiteman in place of Ramona is number one on my Hit 
Parade.

Al S.