[78-L] Fw: Ken MacComber

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Sat Dec 12 11:46:52 PST 2009


Oops. I meant Bluebird 5767. Sorry.

Al
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From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Ken MacComber


> 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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> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:41 PM
> 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>
>>> 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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