[78-L] Fwd: recent finds

[Bill McClung]

Clifford (Boots) Douglas was born in Temple, Texas in 1908.  He was a
drummer and formed Boots and His Buddies in the early 30s.  As Mr. Simmons
has said, he recorded for Bluebird from 1935 to 1938.  I agree that these
recordings are not the most successful but I collect his records because his
is a San Antonio band and that is where I live. I've got 35 sides.  One side
was a reverse of a Tampa Red Bluebird.  I don't know if they are the worst
sides in the Rust because I haven't heard all the sides in the Rust but I'm
willing to guess they may be in the bottom ten.  He is mentioned in
Schuller's "Swing Era" but I'm not home so I can't tell you what he says.
If I remember correctly Schuller is a tad more generous in his evaluatoin.

The recording for Talent (708) seems to be his last 78 and would have
occured in the late 40s.  Boots moved to Los Angeles in 1950 and got a day
job.  He is thought to have died in LA in 2000 but this has not been
confirmed.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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