[78-L] Youngest to record on 78 rpm (was Alicia de Larrocha, RIP)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Sep 27 15:11:28 PDT 2009


As the youngest to have recorded on 78? I think the question is misworded. 
Don't we want to know the youngest possible person to have been among the last 
to record on a 78? Anonymous kids on the Frank Chacksfield "Children's Marching 
Song" (if that was on 78, and I suspect it was in Canada) or Max Bygraves' 
"Gotta Have Rain" (ditto) might qualify. Patience and Prudence were already 
over ten when they recorded, so they're out.

dl

Bud Black wrote:
> How about Baby Rose Marie, who is still very much alive?
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Kristjan Saag
> Date: 09/27/09 15:18:08
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youngest to record on 78 rpm (was Alicia de Larrocha
> RIP)
>  
> OK. Davey Lee (who played Sonny Boy" in "The Singing Fool" 1928) wasn't yet
> five when he recorded "Sonny Boy's Bear Story" in 1929...
> http://vitaphone.blogspot.com/2006/12/yuletide-frolic.html
> But the subject of the quiz is: who's the youngest living person TODAY who
> recorded on 78 rpm in his/her own name (on a commercial issue and, perhaps,
> not part of a children's choir etc)?
> The toddler on "Baby Sitting Boogie" (if there exists a 1961 Indian pressing
> of it) would probably win the anonymous voice race ...
>  
> Kristjan
>  
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Longwell" <glongwell at snet.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youngest to record on 78 rpm (was Alicia de
> Larrocha,RIP)
>  
>  
> Sugar Chile Robinson on Capitol in 1949 with Numbers Boogie and Caldonia. He
> was still 10 when they were recorded.
>  
> Glenn
>  
> --- On Sun, 9/27/09, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>  
>  
> From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youngest to record on 78 rpm (was Alicia de Larrocha,
> RIP)
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009, 11:13 AM
>  
>  
> "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" - Master John Beiling; Berlinner 7" disk
> (1901?)
>  
> Bud
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: David Lennick
> Date: 09/27/09 09:48:13
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Youngest to record on 78 rpm (was Alicia de Larrocha,
> RIP)
>  
> Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
>>> Realize that the final issue of 78rpm phonorecords occured in the very
>>> early
>>> 1960's! This in turn means that the artists thus recorded were born...at
>>> the
>>> latest...around 1942-44., or 65 to 67 years ago (thus defining their
>>> age!).
>>> In another 20-30 years, 78-L (if it still exists?!) will be announcing
> the
>>> demise of the last artist to have recorded and issued a "78?!"
>>> One never knows...do one?!
>> ---
>  
>> Don't forget all the children's records released in this late period.
>> Swedish jazz/ pop singer Alice Babs, for instance, recorded with her son
> and
>> daughter on 78 rpm in 1955. The kids were born in 1948 and 1949
>> respectively. The daughter became a recording artist in her own right.
>> I'm sure there were kids born in the early-, or even mid-50's who recorded
>  
>> Kristjan
>>
>  
> And this can go well into the sixties. Any kids who may have appeared on
> late
> Golden or Disneyland records could still be under fifty at this point.
>  
> dl
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