[78-L] Cany Anyone Identify this Singer

[Jeff Sultanof]

You know, when I win the lottery (if), this would be a great research
project to do. One would have to listen to hundreds of records to create a
good sampling that would mean something, which means finding the records,
trying to find any sort of sales figures (pretty hard at this point), etc.
And as you point out, there are several considerations to take into account
with regard to acoustic vs. electric. One would think that such singers as
Fields and Kaufman would have to have changed their styles 'shouting' into a
horn vs. performing into a microphone. I don't have the records to compare.
At least we have examples such as the Edison DD vs. the electrical
recordings in some cases, and the Edison museum is not far from me.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>wrote:

> It would.  There's also the acoustic versus electric recording
> factor....there was the paradigm shift from the earlier type of voice that
> singers in the acoustic recording era had to have to record with any
> quality, to those with voices that seemed to need all the help they could
> get from mikes.  But would someone like Arthur Fields or Irving Kaufman
> represent  someone 'in between', in that they were successful recording
> both
> acoustic and electric sides?  It would be instructive to explore whether
> they sang the same for either type of system, or if they changed anything,
> how and in what ways.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Yes, true, but I am also talking about singers like Weston Vaughn who
> were
> > mainstays on records by studio-only groups (Beiderbecke, even Artie
> Shaw).
> > Did records with his vocals on them really sell; was that style of
> singing
> > popular enough in certain areas of the country so that labels kept
> singers
> > like him busy?
> >
> > This would make a great paper of some type.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I know what you mean....Libby Holman....W. T. F.
> > >
> > >
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