[78-L] ADBD correction...!

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Nov 16 21:06:27 PST 2009


In fact Artie Shaw's version ran about 3:40 and took a few tries, with Victor 
gently requesting that he speed it up a bit and Artie being conciliatory as always.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Hmm...I'm not sure I could handle a slower version of either tune.
> 
> Too bad no one made a slower 12" version of "Gloomy Sunday" and with the 
> three sides we could have ourselves a real  hoedown.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ADBD correction...!
> 
> 
>> Totally different. Extra verses, played slower..not the most exciting 
>> dance
>> band sides ever made. "Big Bad Wolf" runs around 4 minutes, "Last Roundup" 
>> hits 5.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> Are these actually different versions from the 10" ones?  Even the 10"
>>> versions of these are too long for me!
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:24 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] ADBD correction...!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Your price beats mine, but I got a copy of that disc not long ago from
>>>> Kurt
>>>> Nauck..after I'd borrowed and transferred yours, in fact. A five minute
>>>> version
>>>> of "The Last Roundup" definitely doesn't fall into the category "It 
>>>> seemed
>>>> like
>>>> a good idea at the time".
>>>>
>>>> Somewhere around here, I have the dates for those sides, but not
>>>> immediately to
>>>> hand. They also aren't in the Columbia Books, whose 4th volume (12-inch)
>>>> cuts
>>>> off in 1931 even though the previous volume continued through 1934.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>>> Just re-found a 12" blue Columbia I bought around 1974 or so (at a flea
>>>>> market in
>>>>> Pomtiac, Illinois--50 cents!) that is NOT in Rust's "magnum opus!" So,
>>>>> pencil in:
>>>>>
>>>>> Columbia 50371-D
>>>>>
>>>>> 51807-1  George Olsen and his Music  "The Last Round-Up"  vJoeMorrison
>>>>>
>>>>> 233670-1 Ben Bernie and All the Lads "Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf"
>>>>> "incidental singing"
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that both sides were also issued as 10" records; those appear in
>>>>> ADBD,
>>>>> while this
>>>>> 12" version does NOT!
>>>>>
>>>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>>>
>> ___________________________________




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