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

[David Lennick]

Come on, Mike..she DRANK herself into obscurity for a few years, and pined for 
Nelson Riddle a lot, but I recall reading glowing reviews of just about every 
album she made in her last thirty years. Even the ones where she had about two 
notes to her range. And I'm sure she wasn't screwed on royalties from the crap 
that made her famous and was kept in print. The sides she made with Jose and 
with Marlene Dietrich are pretty gawdawful as well.

As for the Saroyan-Bagdasarian record, yeah, I'd like to find a copy (as much 
for that as for the flip side, "Oh Beauty") but I'd stick to embezzlement. 
There are better records to kill for.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lewis wrote:
>> And he didn't say anything about how the material Mitch matched to the entertainers he handled negatively affected their careers. Sure, "Come On-a My House" was a huge hit for Rosie Clooney. But she hated the song from the first, and struggled for nearly thirty years to get out from underneath it, ultimately reinventing herself to what she had been before all that got started. 
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>> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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> She might have had personal satisfaction, but she would have been 
> singing to herself.  She was a competent performer, but she was not 
> someone who on her own would have stood out in a crowd.   Those novelty 
> songs gave her a start, but she got left in the dust afterwards and she 
> would have never have gotten a chance to get into the dust without those 
> novelties.  Did "Splish Splash" and "Mack the Knife" hurt Bobby Darin?  
> And who ever came to see her or bought her records in her later, more 
> personally satisfying years?  She re-invented herself into obscurity -- 
> not that there was anything she could have done with other novelty songs 
> later on.  She was a personally troubled individual who would have been 
> better off if she had not resented Mombo Italiano and Come On-A My House 
> so much and came to peace with them.  The latter was written by WILLIAM 
> SAROYAN for god's sake!!!!! And people would kill for a copy of the 
> record he made of it.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
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