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

[simmonssomer]

Yeah but Keller performed in Berlin several times in the late 30's. Dietrich 
did not.

Al S.
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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>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
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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