[78-L] Victor Scroll 12-81000 ??? series

[David Lennick]

Black label ethnic. Eventually these would be renumbered with a V- prefix and one of several 4-digit numbers, and renumbered again in 1948 in a new purple label xx-xxxx series.

 

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> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 06:38:27 -0400
> From: rockined1 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor Scroll 12-81000 ??? series
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> 
> put an item on ebay last night
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> Gordoni Puig--Ma Loulou [Victor scroll 12-81488] anyone know what series this is???
> 
> I guessed French but I could be wrong
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 12:34 am
> Subject: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers
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> There are MANY American country singers who were inspired by Rodgers. In fact, 
> OST country singers who came along in the years following Rodgers' death were 
> nfluenced by him. Many started out as Rodgers imitators, including Gene Autry, 
> liff Carlisle, Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Davis, Lefty Frizzell. Others, like Johnny 
> ash, Merle Haggard, and Jerry Lee Lewis idolized him as well. I produced a box 
> et on Bear Family that includes many of these artists and their renditions of 
> odgers songs. Rodgers was probably the most influential country singer until 
> ank Williams came along. 
> Cary Ginell
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Thanks, Cary, perhaps I didn't really express myself properly. Of course, all 
> f the singers you mention would acknowledge the inspiration of Jimmie Rodgers, 
> ut of those which I know, (which would exclude Cliff Carlisle and Jimmie 
> avis), I don't recall ever hearing recordings which are imitative of JR. The 
> ene Autry and Lefty Frizzell recordings I'm familiar with don't have the JR 
> ound. But Wilf Carter particularly had a sound very much like Jimmie Rodgers. 
> is guitar intros are almost identical to JR's and his use of yodeling is pretty 
> ell the same. Early Hank Snow also echos Jimmie Rodgers in the same ways, but 
> ater his style changed to a more unique sound, as in "I'm Movin' On".
> But let me repeat - I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a country music 
> pecialist. I enjoy country music and that's it. All of the observations above 
> re solely from my own experience. I just listened to "Atlanta Bound" by Gene 
> utry on You Tube and it certainly does imitate JR's style and if I'd heard it 
> lind folded, I never would have been able to identify it as Gene Autry
> db
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