[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[David Lennick]

Nice enough voice..I just found it fascinating that on these particular sides 
(which are 1938 radio transcriptions by Isham Jones) he's sounding so much like 
Bob Crosby, and Dick Todd was just getting started at that time.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I must come to the defense of Stuart Allen,  who made so many fine vocals 
> with Richard Himber,  1935-39.  I always think of him as a baritone pushing 
> himself to sing in the tenor range...I don't think there could have been a 
> better vocalist for the classic Himber sound and that includes Joey Nash.
> 
> There is something veddy upper-crust,  upper East Side about his 
> style...Allen sounds like he even rehearses in a tux...great singer with 
> great phrasing as well,  sez I.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> 
> 
>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Martha" <MLK402 at verizon.net>
>>>> I knew someone (now deceased) who thought Todd (pronounced "Tawd") was 
>>>> the
>>>> bee's knees, and he must have played All Around The Xmas Tree every time 
>>>> I
>>>> visited...  I think he liked Dick Todd because the "Poor Man's Crosby" 
>>>> was
>>>> on cheaper labels.   I  still think Todd sounds like a bad imitation of
>>>> Bob
>>>> Crosby, badly imitating his brother's early 30s style.
>>>> Did Todd also record this on another label?
>>>>
>>> I THINK (may be wrong?) that he recorded at least two sides for Compo as
>>> "The Canadian Crosby" (not on the label!). These are VERY good copies of
>>> Bing...?! MAY have been Vic(C)?!
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>
>> Actually you have that disc..it's on buff Bluebird. It was issued on BB in 
>> the
>> states, from dubbed masters. Todd did turn up on Compo pressings later on
>> though, on Gavotte (from Rondo, pressed by Compo) and then on Decca.
>>
>> Someone else with a similar style was Stuart Allen..sounded like the 
>> bastard
>> child of Bob Crosby and Dick Todd. But then so did Perry Como in the late 
>> 30s.
>> If you couldn't be Bing, be Bob.
>>
>> dl
>>
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