[78-L] trivia question and Cary question

[Cary Ginell]

This seems consistent with what I remember Hank telling me. I remember him doing a great impression of Nathan's gruff, scractchy voice in re-creating their conversation.
 
Cary
 
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:38:24 -0500
> From: bmcclung78 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] trivia question and Cary question
> 
> 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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