[78-L] Ruth Gaylor, Peg LaCentra

[Jeff Sultanof]

Certainly the instrumental sides of Hudson-De Lange should be reissued. Many
of them are excellent. Will Hudson is pretty well forgotten as an arranger
today, although he is known as the composer of Moonglow.

Jeff Sultanof

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>wrote:

>
> I have quite a few of the Hudson-DeLange Brunswicks and must say that,
> like Peg LaCentra, Ruth Gaylor is an acquired taste. After multiple
> plays of various Hudson-DeLange discs, I got used to her sound and
> style and accepted it for what I thought she was: A “period” singer. To
> me, Peg LaCentra had more of a 1920s voice than a mid-1930s big-band
> voice. Shaw claimed he liked her singing. She recorded with him for
> Brunswick and Thesaurus. She even sang with Goodman for several months,
> but because she was still recording with Shaw on Brunswick, did not
> record with Goodman. Her six Bluebird sides with Jerry Sears do not
> serve her well, stuff like “Big Mouth Minnie” and “Who Threw the Mush
> in Grandpa’s Whiskers?”
>
> Another Miller reissue of his 1935-1938 Brunswick sides is “Glenn
> Miller and His Orchestra” Epic LN3236.
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