[78-L] Ken MacComber

[Taylor Bowie]

Also should give a heads-up to all about a superb 1934 Bluebird dance record 
of Love Is Just Around the Corner,  credited to the "Rhythm Kings Orchestra" 
under the direction of Ken  MacComber.  Super BIG sound to the band, 
mid-tempo but with a driving and very insistent dance beat...great trumpet 
and punchy finale...a fave of mine.


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You


> Thanks,  David.  There are some other records by him on BB,  also some
> issued on Harmony in 1929,  as I recall...Louise is one title.
>
> I like this idea of making dance records out of,  shall we say,  unlikely
> material.  I don't mean adaptations from classical pieces (I like a lot of
> them,  too),  but from off the wall things like Jingle Bells and Happy
> Birthday.
>
> Are there any others to add to the list?  I'm talking about odd tunes from
> non-dance band genres,  not original oddities written for dance bands.
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Happy Birthday to You
>
>
>> 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
>>>>
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