[78-L] Another mystery vocalist

[simmonssomer]

It is Buddy Clark. The transcription is playing a mite slow but it is 
unmistakably him.

Al Simmons



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thatcher Graham" <thatcher at mediaguide.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Another mystery vocalist


> 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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