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

[simmonssomer]

She refused to perform for those thugs. Keller did not.
It just occurred to me

Al  S.
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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>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>
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>> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:30 PM
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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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