[78-L] Crosby the Bopper

[yves francois]

Taylor
while reading this I was listening to a Tito Burns sextet from the UK playing the same song (someone posted it on facebook from a youtube video) .... never heard Bing's version, will have to someday - what a coincidence 
Yves

--- On Tue, 10/26/10, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Crosby the Bopper
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 10:53 PM
> I don't pay much attention to Crosby
> Deccas when I see them,  because I 
> (stupidly) have assumed that I have all the "good"
> ones.  The first 78 I 
> ever junked at Goodwill (1963 when I was 10) was his
> Swingin' On A 
> Star...still a fave.
> 
> Recently I found a black label one,  new to me, 
> of a duet of Bing and Patty 
> Andrews singing "Be-Bop Spken Here."  Great Vic Schoen
> studio band,  too.
> 
> It's a satire of the bop craze,  and the band
> arrangement offers every 
> imaginable  Kentonish cliche you could ask for, 
> but it works both as good 
> music and as humor.
> 
> I have the tune by Charlie Barnett and also Les
> Brown,  but Bing and Patty 
> win first prize.
> 
> I highly recommend it to all!
> 
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
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