[78-L] Cany Anyone Identify this Singer

[Royal Pemberton]

I know what you mean....Libby Holman....W. T. F.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>wrote:

> This thread brings up a question that's been on my mind for years since I
> started listening to music from this era.
>
> Clearly there were some singers who made records who were horrible singers.
> They've been mentioned so there's no need to list them. How did many of
> them
> continue to record if they were that bad? Let's remember we are not dealing
> with the big band era, where a bad singer could sink the fortunes of a
> band,
> or the rock and roll doo-wop era, where many of those groups were just
> plain
> out of tune. Were the sales of records with these singers that strong to
> warrant them continuing to record?
>
> Back in the twenties and thirties, weren't there listening booths or other
> ways people could hear records before they bought them? Wouldn't someone
> hearing a horrible singer pass up such a record. Or are we talking about a
> style of singing that was popular in certain segments of the population
> that
> just sounds terrible to us today?
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca
> >wrote:
>
> > David Lewis wrote:
> > > pc wrote:
> > >
> > >> Frank Bessinger   (source: Ross Laird's Brunswick  discography)
> > >
> > > Thanks PC for the ID.
> > >
> > > Uncle Dave Lewis
> >
> > I wonder who's Bessinger now.
> >
> > dl
> >
> >
> >
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