[78-L] Ken MacComber

[simmonssomer]

I'm trying to find it in the various Rusts w/o success. No sign of it.
Am I missing something?
It's Mx 86440  Okeh 5767  Recorded on 12/13/34 Rhythm King Orch.
It's in the on line 78 rpm Discography.


Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Subject: [78-L] Ken MacComber


> 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>
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>> 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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