[78-L] Radio-influenced recordings

[Taylor Bowie]

Through the Courtesy of Love,  1936,  has a radio theme....the melody was 
stolen almost note-for-note when it became Jackie Gleason's theme Melancholy 
Serenade.

There is a brilliant Richard Himber record of it on Victor.  I know Bill 
Challis was writing for Himber in that period,  and I wonder if it's his 
arrangement.  It is terrific.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Radio-influenced recordings


> "I Wish There Was A Wireless To Heaven" - Irving Kaufman
> (note:  Early radio was sometimes referred to as the "wireless 
> telephone.")
>
> Bud
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Julian Vein
> Date: 12/10/2009 1:32:38 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Radio-influenced recordings
>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
>>>> David Lennick wrote:
>>>>> Tommy Dorsey recorded The Whistler's theme. Don't know if this is the
>>>>> direction
>>>>> we were looking for. Back in the 20s and 30s there were songs like
> Kiss
>>>>> Me By
>>>>> Wireless", "Turn Your Radio On", and Flotsam & Jetsam's "Little Betty
>>>>> Bouncer"
>>>>> (who loved an announcer).
>>>> Who can forget "Static Strut"?
>>>> Sylvester Ahola with Paul Specht, 1926.
>>> And one of my faves, Fletcher Henderson's "Radio Rhythm".
>>>
>> And the one that may have started the whole thing..."Mr. Radio Man!"
>>
>> As well, we have "Twisting the Dials" (Victor)..."Turning the Dials" 
>> (ARC,
>> IIRC)...
>> and there was a similar side on (IIRC) Cameo, which MAY have been
> Listening
>> In On Ruby Norton?!"
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> Alec Templeton's "Man With New Radio".
>
>      Julian Vein
>
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