[78-L] Another mystery vocalist

[Thatcher Graham]

Anyone up for identifying another  mystery transcription disc? 
It has no label, no markings, just a clean shiny platter with a blank 
sleeve. It's a crooner backed by a string section. Audio here:   
http://www.divshare.com/download/10989786-db5

-- Thatcher 




simmonssomer wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Robertson [was Brunswick 4411 vocalist question.]
>
>
>   
>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>     
>>>> =============
>>>> I'm 100.01% sure it's Dick Robertson. My wallet tells me so! I can't
>>>> think of any other singer, male or female, who could sing that
>>>> perfectly. I think the 2nd, "boop-a-doop" vocal might confuse though.
>>>> Oddly enough I played Dick Robertson's vocal on Louis Katzman's "Beale
>>>> Street Blues" to someone and he thought it was an English female 
>>>> singer...
>>>>
>>>>      Julian Vein
>>>>         
>>> Oh,  Julian...I hope in this case you mean "perfect" as in the sense of a
>>> "perfect storm."  Or perhaps "fine" as in Oliver Hardy's famous line 
>>> about a
>>> "fine mess."
>>>
>>> I guess it is a skilled performance,  but some things are just better 
>>> left
>>> undone.     To paraphrase the Weems record of Piccolo Pete:  "Did you 
>>> ever
>>> hear Dick do some of his tricks?"  Well I did and I don't like them.
>>>
>>> I am very fond of Dick Robertson's more plain vocals...but just can't 
>>> take
>>> it when he goes into "character" be it as a sex-starved woman,  a coy 
>>> child,
>>> or his "Way Down South on the Swanee" dialect.
>>>
>>> I think my favorite vocal of his would be a tie between the Henderson 
>>> Victor
>>> of  "Oh It Looks Like Rain" or the ARC record from '32 of  "Holding My
>>> Honey's Hand."    And his vocals on the Deccas are mighty good,  too.
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>       
>> ==========================
>> "Oh It Looks Like Rain" and its session mate "M|y Sweet Tooth Says 'I
>> Wanna' (But My Wisdom Tooth Says 'No')"--that must make it the most
>> complicated song title, punctuation-wise. They were my introduction to
>> Robertson around 1959, and I've been interested ever since.
>>
>> I think potential singers could learn from Robertson, whether they like
>> his style or not. My step-daughter who sings "pop"  and "soul" once
>> asked who it was singing when I was playing a tape of his Decca sides,
>> so there must have been something that attracted her.
>>
>> Some of his vocals with Roy Smeck on Decca are pretty good too, better
>> than you might expect.
>>
>>      Julian Vein
>>
>>     
> In my humble opinion Chick Bullock was the very best of the studio singers.
> The rest of 'em, including Smith Ballew, Dick Robertson, and Scrappy Lambert 
> are better left in the vaults along with assorted  hack females like
> Vaughn DeLeath and Lee (ugh) Morse.
> O.K. I'm ducking.
>
> Al Simmons 
>
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