[78-L] Wish my French were good enough....

Tue Jul 14 08:10:42 PDT 2009

Yeah..but those long gloves up to her elbow really turned me on.
(I am NOT a dirty old man!)

Al
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Wish my French were good enough....

> From Rust CED2:
>
> 258-M Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup/For Me, For You
> 270-M Goodnight, My Love/I Wanna Go to the Zoo
> (recorded in NY)
> 297-M Let's Call the Whole Thing Off/They Can't Take That Away from Me
> 70547-D Gershwin: King of Rhythm (a chorus of The Man I Love)
> 69193-D I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (don't know why this is on 12")
> 387-M Let's Try Again/Say Goodnight to your Old Fashioned Mother
>
> Not listed in Rust:
>
> 272-M Practicing the Piano/Fritz
> 286-M C'Etait Ecrit/Quand un Vicomte
>
> She had a certain amount of charm on the early recordings. By the time she
> returned to the US and began recording for Decca she was unbearable and 
> totally
> in love with herself and her "sincerity". Her attempts at comedy on Decca 
> are
> pathetic ("Leave Us Face It, We're in Love" and "I Said No"). Harry 
> Snotnose
> and his Awful Orchestra don't help much.
>
> Jose Jimenez does a nice version of "Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup".
>
> dl
>
> simmonssomer wrote:
>> OK.  Let me do a bit of backtracking here.
>> Indeed, Hildegarde made her U.S. performing debut in 1936 and made only 
>> one
>> obscure NYC session for UK Columbia that year which was issued on  FB 
>> 1598
>> and 1641. She quickly skedaddled back to London for three years  and only
>> became a resident and "established performer"of this land early in 1939 
>> when
>> the storm clouds gathered over there.. As I indicated, the first 
>> "attention"
>> shown from a Yank Company was the May 22, 1939 Decca session.
>>
>> Now , the only discography for Hildegarde that I have is in Rusts's "The
>> Complete Entertainment Discography" and it sez that all of her London
>> recordings (Oct 17, 1933 through July 18, 1938) and that 1936 NYC session
>> were issued only on  British Columbia DB and BF series. No American 
>> issues
>> of those sessions are shown.
>> Does anyone on our list know whether any of those English Columbias (1933
>> through July 1938) were also issued here on US Columbia?
>>
>>
>> Al S.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:17 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Wish my French were good enough....
>>
>>
>>> Al...Hildegarde was born in  Wisconsin and was an established performer
>>> here
>>> in the states before she went overseas.  It was a case of the Europeans
>>> recording an American before anyone recorded her over here.
>>>
>>> Her long-time manager and companion,  Anna Sosekno (who wrote H's most
>>> famous song hit),  in later years was also an autograph and manuscript
>>> dealer in New York.  She passed in 2000,  although she and Hildegarde 
>>> had
>>> split up some years before.
>>>
>>> Hildegarde passed just a couple of years ago and as I recall she was 100
>>> or
>>> damn close to it.
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:09 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Over There to Over Here
>>>
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 1:14 PM
>>>> Subject: [78-L] Over There to Over Here
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I can't speak about foreign classical records,  but in my early years 
>>>>> of
>>>>> collecting (maybe 1965 -80) I don't recall seeing very many English or
>>>>> other
>>>>> foreign dance band records either on auction,  junk stores (remember
>>>>> them?),
>>>>> or in the collections of others.  Since that time,  with improved
>>>>> transportation,  mail service and communication,  I started seeing all
>>>>> sorts
>>>>> of English dance records on all sorts of labels and now own several
>>>>> hundred
>>>>> of the 1923-38 era.    These have pretty much all come from overseas
>>>>> sellers
>>>>> or were obtained from fellow collectors who bought them from dealers 
>>>>> in
>>>>> England,  Australia,  etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems very unlikely that any store in the 20s or 30s would have
>>>>> imported
>>>>> much of that English pop stuff,  and I can't see American or Canadian
>>>>> tourists,  packing up their trunks to come home,  being loaded down 
>>>>> with
>>>>> dance records on Edison Bell Winner and Filmophone!
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I correct in saying that the first foreign popular records to be
>>>>> reissued
>>>>> in any quantity in the US were the Ray Noble HMVs reissued on Victor 
>>>>> in
>>>>> the
>>>>> early 30s?
>>>> Yup. Quite a good number of New Mayfairs were issued here by Victor.
>>>> I haven't seen  many/any  Somers. Firmans. Cottons. Foxes, Paynes,
>>>> Stones,
>>>> Ambroses, Roys., Orpheans et al....
>>>> I like them a lot and have a decent number that came over by carrier
>>>> pigeon.
>>>> (equipped with long range belly tanks)
>>>> In the vocal Dep't. even the great Gracie Fields was ignored until she
>>>> skipped town  to Hollywood.
>>>> Hildegarde was outta there by May 1939 and had not received any 
>>>> attention
>>>> from Yank record companies until she got here
>>>> and "aimee beaucouped" us.
>>>>
>>>> Al S.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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