[78-L] trivia question and Cary question

[Bill McClung]

The "Let Me Play With Your Poodle" material is from "Southwest Shuffle:
Pioneers of Honky-Tonk, Western Swing, and Country Jazz" by Rich Kienzle
published by Routledge in 2003.

Interviews with Hank Penny 1976-1987.

On page 41 there is a story of an altercation between Hank and Syd Nathan
during a September 1946 California recording session.  Nathan had issues
with Ralph Miele and Hank told him to get back in the control room and let
Hank deal with his musicians.

On page 42 Kienzle writes "the producer (Nathan) handed him 'The Freckle
Song,' a 1946 double-entendre ditty written and recorded by 'party song'
specialist Larry Vincent, and bluesman Tampa Red's explicit 'Let Me Play
With Your Poodle.'"

"I did not want to record these. Nathan insisted that I record 'em," he
complained in 1980.  "I felt they were too risque, and I recorded 'em under
the condition they would release 'em under the name The Freckled Faced
Boys."

They were released under Penny's name and Kienzle writes that this caused
Penny to lose his slot on the Prince Albert segment of the Grand 'Ol Opry
and that this ultimately caused Nathan and Penny to part ways.

On page 43 it says, "Nathan later withdrew the disc."  I'm betting he just
didn't print any more instead of withdrawing it.  I see it every so often
but not nearly as often as his other King 78s.




On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:16 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Ooh! Ooh! Clifford Brown! (Yeah, I looked it up.)
>
> dl
>
> On 10/10/2010 8:52 PM, Bill McClung wrote:
> >
> > And the other was "Ida Red" by Chris Powell and His Five Blue Flames on
> Okeh
> > 6875.
> >
> > Trivia question--the trumpet solo on "Ida Red" was from this performer's
> > first commercial recording session.   Who was this trumpet player?
> >
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