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

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> And what of the Maltese Falcon, sir? I ask you. Hmm hmm hmm.
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> dl
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It might be the stuff dreams are made of, but Malta is not in the U.S.  
Therefor, it might be black and not a crow, but it is proper for it not 
to be. 

Mike Bogie  mbiel at mbiel.com 

> 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
>>> ===
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>>>       
>>>>>>> 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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