[78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers

[Dan Van Landingham]

I only know of Red Dorris by way of his stint with Stan Kenton;I have(had)Hindsight's two
volume set of "The Uncollected Stan Kenton" which I've owned since 1978;that's assumi-
ng my sister in law didn't sell it with the rest of the 1100 or so LPs a few years back without my permission.Dick Robertson was never one of my  favourite singers I can include
Tram and Eddie Condon with the mix.Joe Williams was another I could leave rather than take.Presley,on a number of the Sun and early RCA sides,tended to be rather unctuous.
Big Joe Turner could sound rather "cute" at times.Both Presley and Turner impressed me
when they took on a harder edge.

--- On Mon, 12/21/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, December 21, 2009, 10:41 AM


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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