[78-L] Happy Birthday to You

[David Lennick]

Yippee for discographies with title indexes! I've certainly never heard of this 
band..Ray Nichols & His Four Towers Orchestra, BB 5921.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Julian's post reminded me of a very cool record I have of  Happy Birthday to 
> You on a Buff Bluebird,  from 1934 or 35.
> 
> Can't recall the band but it's either one of the studio groups (Berwick, 
> Peltyn) or some minor group,  and they play several choruses of the damn 
> thing in almost every tempo you could think of...waltz,  tango,  fox trot, 
> march,  rumba...great record!  Little bit of actual jazz on it,  too.
> 
> Can anyone remind me who the artist is?  I'd like to dig it out and play it 
> and am so backwards that I just have my records alphabetical,  not on a 
> computer list.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> 
> 
>> Bud Black wrote:
>>> In 1947 Dick Todd with Mark Warnow's orchestra and chorus, recorded "All
>>> Around The Christmas Tree," on the Sonora label  I remember thinking at 
>>> the
>>> time that this song would become a Christmas classic heard every year. 
>>> Boy,
>>> was I wrong!  The record was played extensively on the radio, but by the
>>> following year it had almost faded into obscurity.  All in all.....I 
>>> kinda
>>> liked it!
>>>
>>> Bud
>> =============
>> Oddly enough, Warnow's brother Raymond Scott recorded it in 1940. It
>> didn't make much of an impression on me. It was recorded November 29,
>> which would have made it tight for good sales before Xmas. The reverse
>> "Happy Birthday To You", however, could've sold at any time.
>>
>>      Julian Vein
>>