[78-L] Cecil Gant & Red Foley duet

[warren moorman]

Stephen, I don't think the Foley-Gant duet was ever originally issued on 78; it appeared on the Bear Family Red Foley cd box set. The title was "Paging Mr. Jackson", and there may be several others on which Gant provides the piano part.

Warren

--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca> wrote:

> From: Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca>
> Subject: [78-L] Cecil Gant & Red Foley duet
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 11:24 AM
>         Pvt.
> Cecil Gant, the G.I. Sing-Sation, died at age 37, in 1951, 
> while touring in his native Tennessee.  His obit
> mentions that he had 
> recently recorded with Red Foley, but doesn't mention the
> title of the 
> tracks.  ( 
> http://blacknashville.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/cecil-gant-1913-1951/
> ) 
>         Gant had just joined Decca,
> where Foley had been recording for at 
> least a decade.  I can see that several sides were
> released posthumously 
> by Decca and many other labels, but I can't see their duet
> listed 
> anywhere.  Does anyone recognize a Foley collaboration
> in the list of 
> Deccas below?  Or was it a case of Gant's disc dieing
> with him?
>         Also, Decca seems to have
> re-issued his first hit (I wonder / 
> Cecil's boogie) in 1957.  Was this a remake from
> 1950/51, or a lease of 
> the earlier Gilt-Edge recording?
> 
> 
> I used this Spanish discography page to come up with a list
> of Decca 
> titles ( 
> http://hallelujah-rnr.iespana.es/index_archivos/CecilGantBiografia.htm
> )
>  
> Decca 48170   (as Gunter Lee Carr) Goodnight
> Irene / We're Gonna Rock 
> (07.1950)
> Decca 48185   Hello Santa Claus / It's
> Christmas Time Again  (12.1950)
> Decca 48191  Train Time Blues / It Ain't Gonna Be Like
> That  (12.1950)
> Decca 48200  Shot Gun Boogie / Rock Little Baby 
> (01.1951)
> Decca 48212  Don't You Worry / My Little Baby 
> (06.1951)
> Decca  ?  Owl Blues / ?  (09.1951)
> Decca 48249  The Grass Is Getting Greener / God Bless
> My Daddy  (10.1951)
> Decca 30320 reissue  I Wonder / Cecil's Boogie (Spring
> 1957)
> 
> 
>         Perhaps the Foley title(s) is
> in this "complete" list (also from 
> the Spanish webpage)
> 
> The Complete Recordings, Vol. 7: 1950-1951 (King?)
> 
> 01. Goodnight Irene
> 02. My House Fell Down
> 03. We're Gonna Rock
> 04. Yesterday
> 05. Someday You'll Be Sorry
> 06. Owl Stew
> 07. Playin' Myself The Blues
> 08. Train Time Blues
> 09. It Ain't Gonna Be Like That
> 10. It's Christmas Time Again
> 11. Hello Santa Claus
> 12. Paging Mr. Jackson
> 13. Shot Gun Boogie
> 14. Rock Little Baby
> 15. Little Baby
> 16. Don't You Worry
> 17. God Bless My Daddy
> 18. The Grass Is Getting Greener
> 19. I'll Remember You (If You'll Remember Me) (bonus
> track)
> 20. Roll 'Em Pete (bonus track)
> 21. I Wonder (bonus track)
> 22. Cecil's Boogie (bonus track)
> 
> 
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