[78-L] Album Images Needed (2.1) Decca w. titles

[Michael Biel]

You are quite right.  Here in the U.S. we generally think of crows when 
we think of a "black bird" and the crow has been used as a cartoon  
stereotype for Black humans many times, from Two Black Crows, to Heckle 
and Jeckle, the crows in Walt Disney's "Dumbo" ("When I See An Elephant 
Fly"), and the crow in the Alan Livingston/Pinto Colvig/Billy May "Bozo 
and the Birds". 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


Han Enderman wrote:
> A blackbird is the common European "Turdus merula", the black European thrush.
> And as Webster says:
> They do not form flocks, although several birds may be loosely associated in suitable habitat.
> Of course we all know that, since the bird is a solitary singer sitting on roofs, chimneys, etc.
>
> The blackbirds on the album most likely are crows.
> And the ad in Gramophone July 1933, p.49 shows a small flock of crowlike birds with "contemporary" 
> negro cartoon faces, singing (like Mills Brothers?) and playing a banjo.
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
>   
>>>>> Don Chichester wrote:
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>>> BTW, the velvety texture is called 'flock'.
>>>
>>> Don
>>>  
>>>       
> Actually I was thinking of the flock of blackbirds on the 1933 Brunswick 
> album of Blackbirds of 1928 where they fly from the back cover around to 
> the front cover.  I've got pictures of several versions of that pioneering album. 
>
> Mike Biel