[78-L] on-topic: cowboy stamps

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Tue Apr 20 15:35:30 PDT 2010


Caught Alvino Ray and His Band at the Strand Theatre in NYC.(Broadway and 
47th street)  Musta been about 1946. Complete with the King Sisters
Alvino out front with that (whaddayacallit) Hawaiian guitar.(The one that 
lies flat)  Good band..good charts.
He opened with "The Strip Polka"  Hot stuff.
Next number "The Major and The Minor"
I can still see the band and Alvino in my mind's eye.
A tall man with a fairly grave look.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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> Frank DeVol did that?He was a acquaintance of mine.I knew of him via 
> Horace Heidt's Musical Knights
> as well as his involvement with Alvino Rey's band.
>
>
>
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> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> Hart recorded his poem "Pinto Ben" on that Red Seal.  He'd made his last
> movie in 1925,  but did get a sort of boost from Rudy Vallee in the 
> mid-30s,
> when Vallee had him as a guest numerous times on his radio show.
>
> Vallee actually published sheet music to a Pinto Ben song,  using Hart's
> words with music by Frank DeVol.  I think that was issued around the time
> Hart passed in 1946.
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:42 AM
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>>
>> Hart was also on 78..a Red Seal, at that!
>>
>> dl
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:33:15 -0500
>>> From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Subject: [78-L] on-topic: cowboy stamps
>>>
>>> I bought stamps yesterday, and discovered a new issue of cowboy stamps.
>>> Rogers, Hart, Mix, Autry. Hart is the only one I don't know, but all the
>>> others recorded on 78s or other pre-LP formats. Probably all have been
>>> on the radio & in the movies, and were distributed or saved on
>>> transcriptions. Maybe even wires and films (for the audio portion even).
>>>
>>> So have we ever made a list of all the 78-rpm performers that have been
>>> featured on postage stamps? I imagine it would be a rather long list.
>>>
>>> Classical performers not so long.
>>>
>>> joe salerno
>>>
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