[78-L] Dick Robertson's "Henry's Made A Lady Out Of Lizzie"?

[Banjo Bud]

Joe Wheeler was usually used as a pseudonym for Jack Kaufman.

Bud

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From: "Leroy Barco" <leroybarco at abq.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Dick Robertson's "Henry's Made A Lady Out Of Lizzie"?

> "Ford Has Made a Lady Out of Lizzie" Joe Wheeler... Madison 1629
>
> eBayed it away years ago to a non-78 Model-A person who just wanted the
> artifact.
> I sent him a CD of it and kept a copy for myself.
>
> Edited out a needle dig... "Lizzie is now 'Elizabeth Van Flivver' and 
> lives
> way up on Lincoln Avenue."
>
> Don't have a dating guide handy.
>
> It's a good, peppy, inventive song-- Wheeler is good. Is that a pseudonym?
>
> LeRoy
>
> eBayed it away years ago to a non-78 Model-A person who just wanted the
> artifact.
> I sent him a CD of it and kept a copy for myself
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>
>>  >> Since Robertson did most of his recording in the thirties...would he
>>  >> have recorded a tune which was at least three years old, and
>>  >> no longer relevant in popular culture?! Steven C. Barr
>> simmonssomer wrote:
>>  > Not at all. The replacement  of the old "Tin Lizzie"
>>  > (Model T ) ,that changed the ethos of the population,
>>  > by the new Ford "Model A" was huge news. > Al S.
>>
>> In Dec. 1927 it was huge news.  By the 1930s it was old, old news,
>> especially since it ended production in March 1932.  That is why he
>> would not have recorded this three+ year old song in the 1930s, only in
>> 1928.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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