[78-L] Peace Crimes

[Royal Pemberton]

I hadn't heard (of) her until this post.  Had a quick listen to one of her
sides on YouTube, and I agree 100%.  Awful.  (OT, in passing:  Though
there's someone on YT with an early brown wax cylinder of a woman singing
'Old folks at home' that's even worse, but it's hard to discern if all of
that is bad singing or if it's due to high flutter in the recording or
reproduction.)

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Randy Skretvedt <
forwardintothepast at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> --Randy Skretvedt
>
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