[78-L] Smeck you upside the head!

[Taylor Bowie]

Uh oh...I'm afraid that This Could Be The Start of Something Big!

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Smeck you upside the head!


> 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
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