[78-L] Kovacs (Was: Corvairs &c -- Was: half track tapes)

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
>> (Ernie's "Nairobi Trio" theme was on 78s..boy, we're reaching.) dl
> 
> Not at all.  He actually did a lot of things on and with 78s.  Remember
> the Top Tunes 78s by the Tony DeSimone Trio, starting with his theme
> "Oriental Blues", and the one he recorded with them, "Hot Cakes and
> Sausage".  They were both reissued on Decca but remember the controversy
> we started when we told Irwin Chusid that there was 30 seconds missing
> from the Decca master tape he used on the Varese Sarabande CD "The Ernie
> Kovacs Record Collection."  On MGM Kovacs did "Hey, Taxi!" on the flip
> of the LeRoy Holmes 1957 "Oriental Blues" which I have on a 45 but I
> assume was also on 78.  Was it? 
>  

Most likely, at least in Canada..never seen it. Oriental Blues was also nicely 
done by Jan August on Mercury c. 1950.

dl