[78-L] Music Survey Recording

[Bill McClung]

This is in two parts---------

Part one.
Are there other Music Survey Recordings issues?  Was this done by a public
relations firm in an effort to get a recording contract for these
performers?  Are there other recordings by either Stuart Wade or the Town
Criers?

Part two.
I played this (a blue wax, by the way) and didn't make it all the way
through either side.  Stuart Wade tries to sing like Bing but has neither
the tone nor the timing.  He's not helped by a lyricist who can't decide
whether the home that he so pines for is in New Mexico or in New Jersey.  No
recording contract from me.

The Town Criers are trying to update the Smoothies sound but can't quite get
there. The arrangement is disjointed and the song stays with you only as
long as it takes you to rid your mind of the images of monkeys fetching your
beer.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:50 PM, <david.diehl at hensteeth.com> wrote:

> My favorite is "Disk Jockeys Give Public Hosings to Scratchy Etchings"
> citing Morton Downey and Buddy Morrow on air complaints.
> Billboard Oct 25, 1947 p. 20
> DJD
> Visit the Blue Pages: the Encyclopedic Guide to 78 RPM Party Records
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2010 12:16 AM
> To: '78-L Mail List'
>  Subject: Re: [78-L] Music Survey Recording
>
> Michael Biel wrote:> From: david.diehl at hensteeth.com>> There's a review in
> Billboard Jun 15, 1946 page 33. Apparently>> there was a survey sent to DJ's
> along with the disc. DJD> > Since Bill McClurg actually has the record,
> perhaps he can tell us> whether it is a good record! Was it a worthy example
> to do a survey on?> The Billboard review only says that "That's My Home" is>
> "sympathetically sung" and that "Monkey Monkey "is a dilly ditty that> may
> catch". > > Actually the review on this page that did catch my eye is the
> one right> next to it for Bob Crosby record on the short-lived ARA label,
> 137,> Cement Mixer/Where Did You Learn To Love? Considering the question>
> Julian asked yesterday about whether critics commented on bad sound> quality
> of records, here is a great example! "Coupling Gordon Polk's> vocal fling as
> Slim Gaillard's nutty novelty, 'Cement Mixer,' with the> maestro's
> lullabying on the flipover, disk may have much merit. It's> hard telling,
> tho, because faulty
>  reproduction hides it from the needle.> If you can't hear it, better pass
> it up."> > How's THAT for a lousy review of sound quality!!!! There's
> another one> later in the column about Raymond Scott's Sonora 3008, "Mr.
> Basie Goes> to Washington". "However, one fault noted is failure of mike to
> bring> in Johnny Guarnieri's piano filigree properly. More attention from
> the> sound engineer would have made this side great." Pickey pickey pickey.>
> > Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com > > Reviewers did indeed comment on poor
> recordings and poor pressings..I was reading the December 1946 Metronome
> this week and George Simon and Leonard Feather don't spare anyone..MARIE
> BRYANT: I AIN'T GONNA BE NO TOPSY/PIGFOOT PETE (HUB 3025)Complete waste of
> time. The talented Miss Bryant is drowned in a sea of bad balance, recording
> and surface, despite the help of Al Casey's Trio. Choice of material is
> poor, too, the point of the first being lost in the mechanical mess
> anyway.dl
>
>
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