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

[David Lennick]

Jones and Hare recorded it quite a few times, actually.

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> Jones and Hare sang this song as "Thomas and West" on the Regal label.  I
> don't know if it predated Georgie Price's Victor or not.
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Michael Biel
> Date: 8/21/2009 2:40:58 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] FW: Look at this! Another 'rock historian' telling us
> aboutthe 1930s
>  
> 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