[78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)

Mon Jan 11 20:43:25 PST 2010

Nobody's mentioned "Has Anybody Seen Our Cat?"  Billy Murray recorded it
early in his career.

For me it always has a twinge of melancholy (having had
many-a-favorite-feline disappear over the years), but I'm pretty sure it's
supposed to be a comic song.

Sammy Jones

> Message: 14
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:11:36 -0500
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)
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>  From the classical world, Scarlatti's "Cat's Fugue".
> 
> I'm amazed to find there was no score for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. How
> about in
> Goldfinger..did John Barry provide a theme for Miss Pussy Galore? How
> about
> background music for Sam Spayed?
> 
> dl
> 
> Don Chichester wrote:
> > and Mickey Katz.
> >
> >
> >
> > dc
> >
> >> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:00:51 -0500
> >> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> >> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)
> >>
> >> And..
> >>
> >> Tabby The Cat (Stan Kenton)
> >> Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats)
> >> The Persian Kitten (Phil Harris)
> >> The Waltzing Cat (Leroy Anderson)
> >> The Dancing Cat (Henry Mancini--Mr. Lucky Goes Latin)
> >> Something for Cat (Mancini again, from Breakfast at Tiffany's)
> >> Walkin' My Cat Named Dog (Norma Tanega)
> >> I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat (Mel Blanc)
> >> Year of the Cat (Al Stewart)
> >> Three Cool Cats (The Coasters)
> >> Don't Let the Kiddy Geddin (KITTY Kallen, of course)
> >> --okay, I cheated http://www.best-cat-art.com/songs-about-cats.html
> >>
> >> Solos by Cat Anderson.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> Taylor Bowie wrote:
> >>> "Me-ow." There is a Joseph C Smith Victor of that immortal tune.
> >>>
> >>> Isn't there an Isham Jones Brunswick, c. 1926, called "The Cat"?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Taylor
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
> >>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:34 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> "Black Cat Hoot Owl Blues" by Ma Rainey
> >>>> "Tom Cat Blues" by Bob Clifford, Jelly Roll Morton, and a dozen
> others
> >>>> "Mean Eyed Cat" by Johnny Cash
> >>>> "Polecat Stomp" by Leon 'Pappy' Selph and his Blue Ridge Playboys
> >>>> "Women Women Women" by Shelly Lee Alley and his Alley Cats
> >>>> "Rockin' Boogie" by Joe Lutcher and his Society Cats
> >>>> "Open Up the Doghouse (Two Cats Are Coming In)" by Dean Martin
> with Nat
> >>>> King Cole
> >>>> "Wild Cat" by Eddie Lang
> >>>> "Pussy Cat Rag" by the Old South Quartette
> >>>> "Gyp the Cat" by Bobby Darin
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
> >>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:17:07 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada
> Pacific
> >>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)
> >>>>
> >>>> And, Black Cat On A Fence, not to mention Pussy Cat Rag.
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> >>>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael
> Biel
> >>>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:58 PM
> >>>> To: 78-L Mail List
> >>>> Subject: [78-L] Cat songs (was: Frosty the Snowman)
> >>>>
> >>>> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> >>>>> Face it...the record industry pays mimimal attention to cats;
> >>>>> I have tried to correct this by writing (three at last count)
> >>>>> cat-oriented blues tunes...?! Steven C. Barr
> >>>> What about: Siamese Cat Song (Peggy Lee), Alley Cat, Kitten On the
> Keys,
> >>>> All the Cats Join In (Benny Goodman), The Cat Came Back, Myaow Not
> >>>> Nynow, Stop the War the Cats Are Killing Themselves (Wingie
> Manone), My
> >>>> Girl's Pussy, What's New Pussycat?, Memory (from CATS), Jellicle
> Songs
> >>>> For Jellicle Cats (also from CATS), Everybody Wants To Be A Cat
> (from
> >>>> the Aristocats), anything by The Jingle Cats, anything by Mickey
> Katz,
> >>>> Meow Mix Jingle, Cat theme from Peter and the Wolf,
> >>>>
> >>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
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> Message: 15
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:10:14 -0800
> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Terry Pollard
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
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> 
> Was Tommy Pollard black? Because Terry was. She was from the Detroit
> area.
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
> > From: simmonssomer at comcast.net
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:52:25 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Terry Pollard
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> > To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 5:39 PM
> > Subject: [78-L] Terry Pollard
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Just heard of the passing of Terry Pollard on December 16 at the
> age of
> > > 78. Pollard was a great, vastly unappreciated bop pianist from the
> 1950s.
> > > Never saw any notice about her death. She had been in poor health
> for
> > > quite a few years after a stroke. There is a wonderful clip from
> the
> > > Tonight Show from 1956 of Terry playing piano and vibes with Terry
> Gibbs.
> > > I think I showed it an ARSC talk I gave on Gibbs a few years ago.
> Pollard
> > > made few records, but I do have a marvelous 10" LP she made for
> Bethlehem
> > > in the early '50s (let's not get into that again). I think it was
> 1953.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cary Ginell
> >
> > Right. I have a couple of those tracks. "Fedj" I belive  and some
> others
> > "Almost Like Being In Love." etc.
> > Don Fagerquist (tp) Good stuff.
> > Wait a minute.......it was January 1953 which is very early in the
> year. One
> > could say it was almost 1952,
> > so we could say it was just past the late 40's.
> >
> > Al S.
> >
> > P.S. Was she related to Tommy Pollard, also a pianist,  who made some
> sides
> > under his own name joined by Vic Feldman on vibes?
> > London April 1951 on the Esquire label. (Early 50's just past the
> late 40's)
> >
> > Al S.
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 16
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:14:54 -0800 (PST)
> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Child Singers
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> The posting about Laurie London got me wondering what became of other
> Children who performed on 78s.
> 
> Ernest Lough, (Hear My Prayer and others), lived to a ripe old age
> before his demise in 2000.? If anyone's interested there is a four part
> documentary on YouTube about Ernest Lough discussing his recordings and
> lots of videos of the recording process in the 20s.
> 
> Jimmy Boyd, (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus),??made it to his three
> score and ten before dying last March, (I'm sure it must have been
> mentioned on this list but I didn't see it).
> 
> Barry Gordon, (Nuttin' for Christmas), still alive and well at age 61.
> 
> Christopher Robin Milne, died at 76 in 1996.? Not a very happy person
> so I've heard.
> 
> Ann Stephens, (Teddy Bears' Picnic, etc.), Born in 1931, no evidence
> that she died, or that she continues to live.? But I'm pretty confident
> that she is in one condition or the other.? She managed to record
> "Teddy Bears' Picnic" at the age of 13 while sounding like she hadn't
> reached her 7th birthday yet.
> 
> I guess Deanna Durbin counts, she signed up with Decca at age 15, but
> she's one who is neither dead or alive.? The person who was Deanna
> Durbin still breaths but she claims that the Deanna Durbin we all knew
> never existed.
> 
> db
> 
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> Message: 17
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:28:11 -0500
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Child Singers
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> Ann Stephens was a suicide. I don't know if we were clear about that in
> the
> liner notes to the Flapper CD or were being gentle about it, but it was
> confirmed by a couple of sources. As for Christopher Robin Milne, who
> made a
> record for HMV, my contact at Pearl knew him and said he ran a book
> store..he
> may also not have wanted to be bothered about Winnie (whose legacy will
> continue to be defiled by Disney, as they do everything else..now
> Marvel Comics).
> 
> We mentioned Jimmy Boyd..Molly Bee as well (similar vintage). Eileen
> Barton was
> singing and clowning with Milton Berle and Eddie Cantor in the 1930s
> and she
> made it to a ripe old age. Baby Rose Marie is still with us (just saw
> her last
> week in what survives of "Top Banana").
> 
> Speaking of Molly Bee, I wonder what became of Barbara Shuttleworth,
> who did
> singing commercials and shtick on The Small Types Club as "Baby Bee"?
> 
> dl
> 
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> > The posting about Laurie London got me wondering what became of other
> Children who performed on 78s.
> >
> > Ernest Lough, (Hear My Prayer and others), lived to a ripe old age
> before his demise in 2000.  If anyone's interested there is a four part
> documentary on YouTube about Ernest Lough discussing his recordings and
> lots of videos of the recording process in the 20s.
> >
> > Jimmy Boyd, (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus),  made it to his three
> score and ten before dying last March, (I'm sure it must have been
> mentioned on this list but I didn't see it).
> >
> > Barry Gordon, (Nuttin' for Christmas), still alive and well at age
> 61.
> >
> > Christopher Robin Milne, died at 76 in 1996.  Not a very happy person
> so I've heard.
> >
> > Ann Stephens, (Teddy Bears' Picnic, etc.), Born in 1931, no evidence
> that she died, or that she continues to live.  But I'm pretty confident
> that she is in one condition or the other.  She managed to record
> "Teddy Bears' Picnic" at the age of 13 while sounding like she hadn't
> reached her 7th birthday yet.
> >
> > I guess Deanna Durbin counts, she signed up with Decca at age 15, but
> she's one who is neither dead or alive.  The person who was Deanna
> Durbin still breaths but she claims that the Deanna Durbin we all knew
> never existed.
> >
> > db
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 18
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:34:11 -0500
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Child Singers
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> Never heard from again, eh..?
> Barbara Shuttleworth. Soprano, b Toronto 18 Apr ca 1944; B MUS
> (Juilliard)
> 1970. She made her debut at five on the CBC radio program 'Small Types
> Club'
> and was heard regularly in that series for the next eight years. She
> studied
> piano with John Coveart and Helen Wilson at the RCMT and voice with
> Judith
> Litante in California. At Juilliard 1965-70 she studied with Suzanne
> Bloch
> (theory and harmony) and Jennie Tourel and Beverly Johnson (voice).
> While a
> member of the Juilliard Opera Theater she sang in productions of Harold
> Farberman's The Losers, Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur,
> and
> Poulenc's La Voix humaine. She has been a member of the New York
> Chamber
> Soloists, and she joined the New York City Opera in 1971. Among her
> roles with
> that company have been Kristina in Jan??ek's The Makropoulos Affair,
> Clorinda
> in Rossini's La Cenerentola, and Miss Jessel in Britten's The Turn of
> the
> Screw. (She repeated the last-named role with the NACO in concert
> performances
> in Ottawa and Toronto in 1975.) With the Santa Fe Opera she sang Nellie
> in Lee
> Hoiby's Summer and Smoke and the soprano lead in the premiere of
> Luciano
> Berio's Opera. She also has appeared with the Baltimore Opera, the
> Vancouver
> and Edmonton Operas, and the Welsh National Opera, and she made her COC
> debut
> in 1976 as Musetta in La Boh?me. Other COC roles include Wanda in The
> Grand
> Duchess of Gerolstein and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. She has
> sung at
> the Newport (Rhode Island) Music Festival and at the Wexford Festival
> in
> Ireland. In 1972 she was Lisette in a CBC TV production of Puccini's La
> Rondine. She made her New York Philharmonic debut in March 1973 in a
> performance of Haydn's L'Incontro Improviso conducted by Pierre Boulez.
> In 1980
> she sang in The Mikado for the Southern Alberta Opera Association
> (Calgary
> Opera) and in 1981 she was Queen Roxana in the Opera Theatre of St
> Louis
> production of Szymanowski's King Roger, its US premiere, and sang in
> the COC
> The Merry Widow..
> 
> (Not totally off topic. Her mother, Frosia Gregory, made 78s. Come to
> think of
> it so did Baby Bee, with Byng Whittaker.)
> 
> dl wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of Molly Bee, I wonder what became of Barbara Shuttleworth,
> who did
> > singing commercials and shtick on The Small Types Club as "Baby Bee"?
> >
> >
> 
> 
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