[78-L] Phil Harris/Andy Razaf

[David Lennick]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> As someone else pointed out,  few people would ever have heard the thing
>>> (not to be confused with The Thing) if it weren't for Phil.
>>>
>> That was I..and speaking of The Thing, on Maurice Chevalier's French 
>> language
>> version "L'Objet", the sole writing credit (on the Vox LP) goes to the guy 
>> who
>> did the translation. Fella named Charles Aznavour. Charles Randolph 
>> Grean..who dat?
>>
>> dl
> 
> 
> Man...I don't know which one seems like the stranger person to be associated 
> with that tune...Chevalier or Aznavour!!!
> 
> Are there any other foreign or foreign language versions of that deathless 
> standard,  or was the Chevalier enough?
> 
> Taylor
> 

Even stranger, Aznavour may have been living in Quebec at that time. I know he 
was here for several months around 1949-51..he even recorded here. I wonder if 
he cut a version? If he did, the National Library doesn't have it listed.

dl