[78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers

[Taylor Bowie]

U R right.  I guess I'm losing my eyesight...going the way of my mind.

Taylor


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From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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> Uhhh..Bing Crosby is the very first name I listed.
> No omission.
>
> Al S.
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> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 2:00 PM
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>
>> 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>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> 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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