[78-L] Fwd: recent finds

[simmonssomer]

The Boots and His Buddies Bluebirds recorded in San Antonio, Texas from 
Aug.14, 1935 to Oct. 25, 1938 vary from Decent to Terrible.
 "The Somebody" BB B7269 that you mention was from one of the band's better 
sessions.Sept. 17, 1937.
Even so,  the band sounds extremely rough and scuffling  although there are 
good tenor and trumpet solos.
The next session from April 6, 1938 is inexplicaby terrible. Why Bluebird 
issued this raggle-taggle third class band performance is beyond 
comprehension. They sound totally unrehearsed. The only decent artist is the 
very special  vocalist, Cora Woods.
The orchestra's intonation is dreadful and to make matters worse the next 
session on October 25 the delivers the same faults  but with a good number 
of clams as a bonus. (Clams=missed or poorly played notes.)
I consider Boots and His Band the worst sounding band (on certain dates) in 
the entire Rust Discography..
I have all 42 Bluebird sides , don't ask me why. Temporary insanity is all I 
can think of.
Some notes: Charles Anderson in the trumpet section was Cat Anderson's 
brother.The altoist Alva Brooks delivers some decent solo work as does Baker 
Millian on tenor saxophone. A second trombone was added for the last 
session. Oct. 25, 1938. It didn't help.

Al Simmons


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:22 PM
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I'd be interested in knowing more about the Boots and his Buddies 
recordings.I have a circa
1938 Bluebird of his playing "The Somebody".The title was a retitling of 
"Somebody Loves
Me".I found that one plus a hundred or more at a one time business in Coos 
Bay,Oregon
called Sunset Automatic Music Company.They originally sold and serviced Juke 
Boxes
and pinball machines.The owner of the company found at least a few thousand 
quite by ac-
cident in 1994.Two circa 1936 Victors I found were of the Benny Goodman 
Orchestra with
Ella Fitzgerald(who was not listed-the records just said "with vocal 
refrain")of "Take Another
Guess","Goodnight my Love","'Taint No Use(vocal by Benny Goodman)" and the 
last title
escapes me.I was of the impression that when Decca heard of the records 
Fitzgerald cut
with Goodman,Decca threatened to sue and Victor recalled all of the 
recordings.

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
Subject: [78-L] Fwd: recent finds
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Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:41 PM


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:56 PM
Subject: recent finds
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One of the best reasons I hunt for 78s is to be surprised at what is found.

I'm still on my Texas label 78 kick and I found these three in the last
couple of weeks.

Euday Bowman on Bowman 1/2 playing his composition, "Twelfh Street Rag."
(Bowman/Fort Worth)

Hank Thompson singing ads for Shell Oil to promote pesticides to combat boll
weevils. (Shell/Houston)

Sol Hoopi and Ira Stanphill doing some gospel numbers on Hymntime.
(Hymntime/Fort Worth)

Earlier surprises have been Boots and His Buddies on Talent (Dallas), Crown
Prince Waterford on Torch (Dallas),
Little Doug (Sahm) on Sarg (Luling), Phineas Newborn, Jr. on Peacock Jazz
(Houston), and Rufus Thomas on Star Talent (Dallas).

Always looking for Texas label 78s if anyone has any they don't want.
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