[78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc

[David Lennick]

I never understood what all the fuss was about Greta Keller.  On the other 
hand, Johnny Mercer was also known to make scurrilous racist comments, then 
send flowers to everyone he'd offended the following morning.

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> I have the Stella Brooks 78 rpm set....I never was exactly blown away by her 
> voice or her art,  on these discs anyway.
> As far as Greta Keller was concerned....she had been known to make 
> scurrilous racist comments.
> 
> Al Simmons
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Austin" <jaustin214 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:46 AM
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> 
> 
>> That the Stella Brooks records were made at all is a wonder.  I became 
>> acquainted with Stella at the end of her long (too long, from her point of 
>> view) life.  She probably was a more gifted singer than even these very 
>> interesting records attest.  Stella, alas, disdained the idea of making 
>> records, doing radio, and just about every other convention in music and 
>> normal life.  She was, in a way, the "Zelig" of jazz (and actually used to 
>> cut Woody Allen's hair in his Hungry I days, although she disdained Woody 
>> Allen).  The Disc side were long available appended to some Greta Keller 
>> material (disdain!) on a Folkways LP, and are still (I believe) available 
>> through the Smithsonian on CD.
>>
>> I first ran across the Disc set at a garage sale in the suburban Columbus, 
>> OH neighborhood of my adolescence.  What in the world it was doing there, 
>> I will never know.  But then, I never knew what I was doing there, either.
>>