[78-L] Looking to identify/locate female singer
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 30 17:09:18 PST 2010
That's the label type I thought she meant. So, over to folks across the pond.
Earl? Tosti's "Good-Bye" on a mid 50s Green label Columbia?
dl
Glenn Longwell wrote:
> Thanks for checking David. She sent me a label image saying this is the type of label it is and is fairly certain of it. You can see the label type here:
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> http://www.majesticrecord.com/greencol.htm
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> Glenn
>
> --- On Sat, 1/30/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Looking to identify/locate female singer
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 6:39 PM
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> I've looked in English Columbia catalogues from 1954 and 1957 and the only
> "Goodbye" songs are one from White Horse Inn, sung by Richard Tauber, and the
> one played by Benny Goodman. Not even Tosti's Addio (Goodbye..Forever) which is
> the one sung by Ponselle (Victor Red Seal).
>
> As far as I know, English Columbia had a green label only from the mid 50s on,
> for its pop series, unless this is a really ancient recording on the label
> which World Records revived in the 70s.
>
> dl
>
> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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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