[78-L] Peace Crimes

[David Lennick]

Whoa..the folk music? The set with Josh White? Ghastly. I can donate that 
turkey to the ToNY site if anybody wants to suffer.

Lee Wiley, to my mind, sang far better on that soupy 1935 Victor Young 
recording of I've Got You Under My Skin. She did some not too bad things in the 
LMS sets but the great jazzmen are carrying her. By the 50s I find her unbearable.

dl

Randy Skretvedt wrote:
> Well, I like the singing of Ruth Etting (also a nice person), Lee Wiley (not a nice person), and Vaughn DeLeath (playing her records on the radio occasionally is DeLeath I can do).  I much prefer Ruth's earlier records to her later, more torchy ones.  I get a chuckle out of Frank Trumbauer's vocals, which sound like a guy with a bad cold singing at a bar after a couple too many.  I like Lee Morse and Annette Hanshaw, both of whom have prompted disparaging comments within my earshot.
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> The one '20s-'30s vocalist I can't stand is Libby Holman.  Ucccch!  Combine a hammy delivery (she's the femme Harry Richman) with a jackhammer vibrato (she makes Gloria Jean sound like Jo Stafford) and a sense of pitch that always goes sharp of the note, and there is La Holman.  I suppose maybe she's better in those later recordings where she's doing the folk music, but her late '20s records make my teeth hurt.
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> --Randy Skretvedt
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