[78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers

[Taylor Bowie]

I'm ashamed I missed Buddy Stewart who is a great fave...thanks for the 
reminder from Julian.

However I am baffled by J's considering the style of Fred Astaire to be 
similar to Dick Robertson!?!?!?  I'm trying to imagine Robertson 
substituting for Astaire on those Brunswicks with Johnny Green,  and it just 
isn't clicking.

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers


> I'd add:
>
> Arthur Fields,  a very musical belter with a great sense of humor.
>
> Bon Bon (George Tunnell),  one of the best band vocalists.
>
> Harry Babbitt,  long with Kay Kyser.  As George Simon said,  he didn't 
> sing
> in a particular style but really sang well,  all the time.
>
> Was Bing Crosby a deliberate omission?  I'd sure add him.
>
> I think there's room for Johnny Marvin as well...a real cross-over artist
> who could do country/folk as well as pop/jazz.
>
> I may stand alone in my taste for Sid Gary,  but I would also add Irving
> Kaufman,  especially because of his later electric recordings where he
> didn't have to holler.
>
> And a short plug for two less-known 40s band singers,  both of whom were
> excellent:  Gary Stevens and Larry Taylor.
>
> And I'm sure there are many more I'd add,  given a little time to mull.
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 8:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers
>
>
>> 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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