[78-L] Smeck you upside the head!

[David Lennick]

Smock! Smock!

--Steve Allen

On 9/22/2010 2:10 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Mal,  I'll forgive you for the date typo,  but not for calling Roy Smeck
> "ho-hum"!!  I love that guy...he is both a wizard of technique and very
> musical as well.
>
> Some may not know it,  but there are several sides issued under his name in
> 1930 which are regular dance bands,  not just trios.  Cheerful Little Earful
> is one I especially like...I have it on Banner.
>
> Too bad he never recorded a duet with Fletcher Henderson:  "Smeck and
> Smack"!
>
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malcolm Rockwell"<malcolm at 78data.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Herald 460
>
>
>> Ooops, that would be c. May 1955!
>> Sheesh.
>> Mal
>>
>> *******
>>
>> On 9/22/2010 7:58 AM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>> I just came up with an odd and  - I think - great 78. I was buying some
>>> Roy (ho-hum) Smeck Deccas on eBay and also won Herald 460. Sometimes
>>> I'll buy a record only because the title might be Hawaii related. This
>>> one is "Paradise Princess" and is a Rock n Roll ballad with no
>>> Hawaiian-redeeming value. The flip is also of no tropical worth, BUT is
>>> a most interesting New Orleans style rocker, ala Fats Domino&   Dave
>>> Bartholomew, entitled "My Sweetie's Gone" by Al Savage.
>>> The instrumentation seems to be 2 (?alto) saxes, piano, tenor banjo, Bb
>>> baritone tuba and drums with Savage doing vocal. The tuba is outstanding
>>> in that the player not only does the normal bass line routines, but also
>>> plays some lead lines. It bops along with the saxes using a very NO
>>> feel. Very obscure... very interesting!
>>> Seems it was recorded in New York c. May 1965.
>>> I'll see what I can do about putting it up online somewhere.
>>> I really need to find a regular "notepad" temp site to put up recordings!
>>> Mal