[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Taylor Bowie]

I haven't heard these Jones tracks...are they on a CD?

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs


> 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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