[78-L] Henry Burr Favorites (Was Huh?)

[Sammy Jones]

I must come to his defense also!  A really wonderful singer, especially of
sentimental ballads.  One of my very first 78s (very worn and found in an
"antiques" store in Covington, GA) was "California and You" by Campbell and
Burr on Columbia (can't recall the number).  Really beautiful.  I wish I had
a clean copy.

I'm also very fond of Burr and the Peerless Quartet's "Red, White, and Blue"
on Victor 17652.  Very clever song, with a tune that I can't get out of my
head.  

It also helps that I really love male quartets and tenors who sing with
them!

Lennick, what've you got against Will Oakland?  His duet with Billy Murray
of "Just for Tonight" is really beautiful...Ah, some people just have no
taste...(duck!)

To the questions raised about young collectors, I'm 27, and very actively
collect acoustic-era comic songs and ragtime, as well as '20s and '30s jazz.
And I'm a classical lover, too!  I'm still trying to figure out why I
started collecting 78s.  I think I was 13 or 14.  It must have been because
I loved OTR and collecting 78s seemed very logical.  I'm certainly not sorry
that I started (although my pocketbook often is!).

Re-cordially,
Sammy Jones

Bud Black wrote: 
> May I say, in defense of Mr. Harry McClaskey, that he really sang his
> ass
> off in a time when vocal enhancements in recordings were unheard of?
> This
> guy could literally sing any type of song, be it light classical (The
> Rosary), religious (Throw Out The Lifeline), country (The Prisoner's
> Sweetheart), show tunes (If You Look In Her Eyes), or even contemporary
> up
> tempo ballads (I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight.)  His peers dubbed
> him
> "The Dean Of American Ballad Singers" and that was right on the mark.
> Even
> Joe Franklyn once dubbed him the "Perry Como and Bing Crosby of his
> day."
> Personally, I could listen to this cat sing all day long.
> 
> But that's just me.
> 
> Bud
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:40 PM
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Huh?
> 
> >
> >>
> >> >> How many of this demographic will be able to toletate the
> ubiquitous
> >> >> efforts of Henry Burr et al;
> >>
> >> Henry Burr's got more records in print now than at any time in the
> past
> >> eighty years, thanks to Archeophone -- the very existence of which
> >> refutes this "no one is interested in old music" theory.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > And with all due respect, I hope I never have to hear any of them.
> > Archeophone may have reissued them but is anyone buying them? If
> there's a
> > more boring singer from that period (okay, I can do without Richard
> Jose
> > and Will Oakland as well) I'd like to know who it is.
> >
> > dl