[78-L] Melvin Marvin^

[David Lennick]

> From: dnjchi78 at live.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:13:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Melvin Marvin^
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> > From: kil at roadrunner.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 02:21:34 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Melvin Marvin
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> > From: "Tyrone Settlemier"
> > > I'm holding a 16" lacquer aircheck from WOR, dated Feb 13, 1941. It's by 
> > > the Melvin Marvin orchestra. A sweet/novelty band. Who is this? I seem 
> > > to have misplaced my copy of Simon, I don't recall this leader being 
> > > mentioned.
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> > Simon does mention him, barely, at the end under "Still more bands playing 
> > during the 1935 to 1946 period". He lists about a hundred bands and 
> > mentions Mel Marvin and his Take It Easy Music.
> > RayK 
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> Does Simon happen to mention Ramon Raquello and his Orchestra?
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> Don
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Playing La Cumpasita, naturally (or as naturally as Bernard Herrmann and his CBS Sypsies could render it).

 

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