[78-L] Same or similar

[Cary Ginell]

Found a bunch:

 

Sonny Boy Williamson (Bluebird) & Sonny Boy Williamson (Checker)

 

Jimmie Rodgers (Victor), Jimmie Rodgers (Roulette), and Jimmy Rogers (Chess)

 

Gene Autry and Gene Austin (well, I always get 'em mixed up...)

 

Blind Blake (Paramount) and Blind Blake (calypso singer)

 

Bill "Cowboy Rambler" Boyd (Bluebird) and Bill "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd (children's 78s)

 

Jimmy Dean (4 Star, Mercury, Columbia) and Jimmie Dean (brother of Eddie) (ARC)

 

Pie Plant Pete (Claude Moye - ARC) and Rhubarb Red (Les Paul - Vocalion/Okeh/Decca/Capitol/Columbia)

 

Maddox Bros. & Rose (4 Star) and the Maddux Family (Decca)

 

Roy Rogers ("Happy Trails") and Roy Rogers (current blues slide guitarist)

 

Jean Shepard (Capitol country star) and Jean Shepherd (Elektra monologist)

 

Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith (MGM) and Fiddlin' Arthur Smith (Bluebird)

 

Tom Tall (Fabor) and Tom T. Hall (60s & 70s country artist)

 

Johnnie White (Fortune) and John White ('30s cowboy singer)

 

Bill Cox (Gennett/ARC) and Billy Cox (Brooklyn Dodgers third baseman - I can cheat once in a while, can't I?


Happy Jack Turner (Gennett/Decca) and Hobo Jack Turner (Ernest Hare - Diva, etc.)

 

Fiddlin' John Carson and Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!

 

Henry "Red" Allen (jazz trumpeter) and Red Allen (bluegrass - MGM)

 

Bennie Moten (jazz trumpeter) and Benny Morton (jazz trombonist)

 

Charlie Parker ("Bird") and Charlie Parker ('20s country singer, Columbia)

 

Bill Haley ("Rock Around the Clock") and Bill Halley (wrote "Roll Along Kentucky Moon")

 

Sid King (rockabilly artist) and Syd Nathan (King Records)

 

 

Cary Ginell

 


 
> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:13:44 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Same or similar
> 
> Wild Bill Davison (cornet) & Wild Bill Davis (organ)
> Tommy Dorsey & Thomas A. (Georgia Tom) Dorsey
> Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and Fifi d'Orsay (rimshot)
> 
> dl
> 
> Julian Vein wrote:
> > Here are some examples of jazz musicians with less common names who have 
> > the same or similar ones, not always both in the jazz field!
> > 
> > James Moody – tenor sax and James Moody – pianist on Workers’ Playtime 
> > (BBC 1950s).
> > 
> > Skeeter Best – guitar and Keter Betts – bass.
> > 
> > Bill Dillard – trumpet and Bill Dillard – guitar.
> > 
> > Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – tenor sax and Eddie Locke – drums.
> > 
> > Lee Morgan – trumpet and Lee Morgan – bass.
> > 
> > Jimmie Noone – clarinet and Big Jim De Noone – country artist.
> > 
> > Earl “Fatha” Hines – piano and Earl Hines - preacher.
> > 
> > Garnet Clark - piano and Garner Clark - trumpet.
> > 
> > Jimmy Woods – alto sax and Jimmy Woode – bass.
> > 
> > Sal Nistico and Sam Nestico – both tenor sax
> > 
> > Ziggy Elman – trumpet and, occasional, trombone and Ziggy Elmer – trombone.
> > 
> > Dick Katz – piano and Dick Katz – piano!
> > 
> > Johnny Dodds – clarinet and Johnny Dodds (pseudonym for Gene Autry on OK).
> > 
> > Emmett Berry - trumpet and Ermit Perry - trumpet
> > 
> > and a couple who should be doing pantomime:
> > 
> > Joe Cinderella - guitar and Dick Whittington - piano.
> > 
> > Julian Vein
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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