[78-L] EDDIE FISHER

[Cary Ginell]

Listen to Honky Tonk Blues (Decca 5400), with Derwood Brown's Musical Brownies and Davis. According to Ocie Stockard, the banjo player on the session, before singing, Davis would take a teaspoonful of rock candy dissolved in whiskey to "open up his throat."
 
Cary Ginell
 

 
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:19:48 -0400
> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] EDDIE FISHER
> 
> 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.
> > >>
> > >
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