[78-L] Looking to identify/locate female singer
Glenn Longwell
glongwell at snet.net
Sat Jan 30 15:06:09 PST 2010
Hi Everyone, I got the following email from someone hoping I could help identify who might have sung a song she knew from long ago. It is from a UK green Columbia label. Below is part of her email to me. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Glenn
When I was a child, a neighbour gave me a heap of 78s which I played over and over again - amongst them was a song called 'Good-bye', but I couldn't recall who it was sung by. It was a record I played most of all. Of course over the years and growing up, it must have got broken and I no longer have it, and have been looking for this Song ever since! However, there was some confusion - both over the actual Song and who actually sang it; every search that I do on the Internet, (and of course I was spelling it without the 'hyphen' which may have confused matters) kept bringing up different Songs with the same title, and ones that were sung by different people; it was as if this Song I remember never existed at all - until recently, when I stumbled upon the Song at long last, but being sung by two different Singers on YouTube.
Now, I do know that the one I had was by yet a different Artist than any of the two I have managed to locate - but it is definitely the same Song. The two Singers are: 'Rosa Ponselle' and 'Florence Hinkle'. All I remember is, is that the copy I had was a much later recording, (only because the bulk of records I was given were from over around a ten year period - probably that of say 1948 - 1958) and had been issued on the 'green' Columbia Record Label. It was a soprano voice. (probably an older lady - but am unsure) She may well have been English because I live in the United Kingdom, but again; could be anyone...
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