[78-L] Pop and Jazz Singers

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> 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?)
> 
YES! What has happened to poor old Irving Kaufman (or his brother
Jack?!) I also DON'T see Harold "Scrappy" Lambert...thus, in one fell
swoop, you have wiped out about 1/4 of the recordings of 1925-32!
Further, Ben Selvin was a fairly competent singer...often heard on his
recordings of the twenties! Dare I mention Ted Lewis...who contributed
"incidental singing" to many of his numerous hit records...?!

Then, finally, you have omitted both Billy Jones and Ernest Hare...?!
And, as well, skipped over the entire first half of the 1900-1925 era...
thus Henry Burr, Albert Campbell and a number of others! Like
them or not...but they DID record MANY "vocal refrains" before
the electrification of recording rendered them obsolete!

Steven C. Barr
(who not only likes poor old Carmen...but who can also perform
an accurate copy of his vocalizing...?!)