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

[David Lennick]

And what of the Maltese Falcon, sir? I ask you. Hmm hmm hmm.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
> 
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