[78-L] FW: Look at this! Another 'rock historian' telling us about the 1930s

[Michael Biel]

David Weiner wrote:
> It's fun to count all the incorrect statements he makes!
> Dave W.
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/eeca345e-8de1-11de-93df-00144feabdc0.html 
>   

Actually I think the article is pretty good.  He does make some 
generalizations such as forgetting that there were big name singers such 
as Al Jolson who were attached to certain songs, and that these name 
performers did extensive touring and broadcasts -- it wasn't just the 
"covers" on Your Hit Parade.  But his experience of asking his 
grandfather who had sung those old songs exactly matches mine when I saw 
a Mr. Wizard show where he mentioned the old song "Barney Google" which 
I had not yet heard of, but my mother said she remembered it.  I asked 
her who sang it (so that maybe I could find a record of it) and she 
didn't remember.  Now WE might say Jones and Hare, but remember, it was 
Georgie Price on the Victor, and that happened to be the first record of 
it that I found.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com