[78-L] All I Want For Christmas

[David Lennick]

Not really that far off topic, since DSM did the cover for Greta's ASCH album. 
Note that the Folkways Smithsonian reissue doesn't use it or the original one 
for Stella Brooks, unless they appear in the liner notes.

And how can anybody get bored with David Stone Martin? Ever hear of anyone 
buying an album just because it has a Steinweiss cover? Him, I get bored with. 
No soul, not even art..lots of curlicues and mock stencils.

Oops, forgot to change the subject line.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> besides Peace on Earth (I still have my front teeth),  would be for people 
> on this site to change the subject line when the topic changes.
> 
> No offense to the memory of the talented David Stone Martin,  but I'd gotten 
> tired of reading about him and had been merrily  deleting all the messages 
> with him as  the subject.
> 
> Imagine my surprise when I took a peek at this last one and discovered that 
> it was about Greta Keller,  storm troopers,  and Ten Cents a Dance.
> 
> So let's keep the subject line somewhat connected to the topic.
> 
> Thanks from
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
> 
> 
>> 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.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:30 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] David Stone Martin on Asch/Stinson/Disc
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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>
>>>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>>> 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.