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

[David Lennick]

I didn't like her even before I knew that. Phooey. Ever hear her version of Ten 
Cents A Dance? The band sounds like a bunch of storm troopers. (How did 
Dietrich get into this thread?)

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> 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
>>>
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>>> 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.
>>>>
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