[78-L] trivia question and Cary question

[Bill McClung]

Do you think the part about the Opry is right?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

>
> 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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