[78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 21 08:41:30 PST 2009


Can live without Rudy Vallee.

How about Johnny Hartman? Although he was much better by the LP era.

Definite "feh" on 78: Red Dorris. (If he didn't make 78s, he sure loused up a 
lot of MacGregor Transcription tracks.)

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> Here we go then. A year-end list of............
> The Best of The Male Pop and Jazz Singers on  our 78's.
> 
> 
> Who has been left off.
> Who should be left off?
> (Does anyone care?)
> 
> Bing Crosby                   Rudy Vallee
> Al Bowlly                       Al Jolson
> Buddy Clark                  Perry Como
> Louis Armstrong            Smith Ballew
> Fred Astaire                  Billy Jones
> Nat Cole                       Elmer Feldkamp
> Jimmy Rushing               Dick Robertson
> David Allyn                   Eddie Howard
> Chick Bullock               Skinny Ennis
> Tony Bennett                Woody Herman
> Frank Sinatra
> Matt Dennis                  Jack Leonard
> Elvis Presley                 Dick Haymes
> Jack Teagarden
>                                    (The blank spaces, mercifully,  were 
> Carmen Lombardo, Ozzie Nelson and Frankie Trumbauer.)
> Mel Torme
> Fats Waller
> Joe Williams
> Cliff Edwards
> Gene Austin
> 
> Al S. 
> 
> _______________________________________



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