[78-L] EDDIE FISHER ^ or something..we lost this subject line eons ago

[David Lennick]

Pay no attention to that little voice in your ear.

Unless you're Mary Martin.

Or, I'm pretty sure, Betty White..she's always waiting for a cue before 
delivering the punch line.

dl

On 9/25/2010 10:19 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> This has nothing to do with time, but I laughed when I bought a two-fer back
> in the seventies of Decca recordings of Al Hibbler. I'm almost positive the
> track was 'Tis Autumn;' you can clearly hear someone speaking the lyrics to
> Hibbler in the background line by line.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Taylor Bowie<bowiebks at isomedia.com>  wrote:
>
>> Now I want to go dig out my Davis Decca of Ten Tiny Toes..I recall that
>> Davis is right on the mark as far as the meter,  but I may be
>> nostalgiafying
>> my memories.   In the early 60s,  I inherited a suitcase full of records
>> which had belonged to a great-uncle who had died many years before I was
>> even born.  He was a salesman,  on the road much of the time,  and took his
>> suitcase with him.  There was exactly one pop record among the 80 or
>> so...all the rest were black jazz and blues artists of the 20s and 30s and
>> a
>> few very jazzy country disks including the Davis.
>>
>> Who would have imagined that one of my ancestors was also a fan of Bo
>> Carter,  Buddy Moss and Jelly Roll Morton??
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cary Ginell"<soundthink at live.com>
>> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 2:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] EDDIE FISHER
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Jimmie Davis also was notoriously meter-challenged. He actually employed
>>> somebody to come with him to recording sessions to point at him when it
>>> was time for him to sing. Listen to some of his Victor and Decca
>>> recordings and you'll hear him skip all kinds of beats. Davis was very
>>> unmusical, but he was sharp - he never was a songwriter, but knew a good
>>> song when he heard it ("You Are My Sunshine") and pounced on many with
>> his
>>> wallet.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
>>>> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:48:51 -0400
>>>> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] EDDIE FISHER
>>>>
>>>> Eddie Fisher and his bad sense of time: During recording sessions,
>> Fisher
>>>> had someone tap him on the shoulder to cue him when to come in and sing.
>>>> Nelson Riddle told me this himself; for the album they made together
>>>> (Games
>>>> That Lovers Play), the orchestral tracks were recorded first and then he
>>>> was
>>>> overdubbed. Riddle saw this. To him this was insane.
>>>>
>>>