[78-L] Tom Berwick, etc.

[Dan Van Landingham]

I was aware of Kitty Lane.I've discussed this before:I first heard her back in 
1965 by way of the Bunny
Berigan Memorial Album.I have "'Deed I Do" on CD.The Tom Berwick Bluebird I 
bought back in 1978
along with that one George Hall Bluebird with that atrocious vocal by Sonny 
Schuyler.A good parody of
"Through the Doorway of Dreams" would have been "Through the Doorway of 
Screams".Schuyler was
apparently,a better songwriter he certainly was no singer.Which reminds 
me:George T. Simon made the
claim that Dolly Dawn took over the George Hall orchestra on 4 July 1941.I had 
her "A Gay Caballero"
on Bluebird but I recall seeing a pre-1938 Bluebird by "Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn 
Patrol".




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From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Sun, October 31, 2010 1:42:22 PM
Subject: [78-L] Tom Berwick, etc.

Dan,

You mentioned a Tom Berwick Bluebird you have...this was one of the Victor 
studio groups which showed up on Bluebird under various names in '33 and '34 
including Berwick,  Syd Pelton,  etc.

Kathleen Lane is the singer on the Miller of Sweet Stanger.  I've always 
liked her from the first time I heard her on the Berigan Victor of  'Deed I 
Do."  She also sang with Charlie Barnett on record.


Taylor



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From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music


I've never heard of Sam Browne but I remember Al Bowlly by way of Ray 
Noble's
American band
organised by Glenn Miller.Somewhere,I have a 1938 Bluebird of "Sweet 
Stranger"
by Al Bowlly &
His Orchestra.It came from that same batch of 78s I bought back in 1994 here 
in
the Coos Bay-North
Bend,Oregon area.As for "There's a Lull in My Life",I have that one by Teddy
Wilson with Helen Ward
on the vocal.This one is also from the same batch.The Al Bowlly Bluebird was 
the
only one I came acr-
oss and I must have gone through several hundred records that were 
there.Helen
Ward was not one of
my favourite singers.The only other recording I have of "Sweet Stranger" is 
by
Glenn Miller on Brunsw-
ick.




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From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Sun, October 31, 2010 1:10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music

Besides Bowlly, my fave English band singer is Sam Browne. None of the
women band singers do much for me...often they sound like the just left the
cast of a Sigmund Romberg operetta.

I don't recall Anne Lenner but will try to check her out, per Julian's
endorsement.

That said, I recently got a Charlie Kunz Casani Club Orch record of Thanks
a Million (1935), which has a very early and excellent vocal chorus by Very
Lynn...great tune as well.


Taylor




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From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] For lovers of British Dance Band music


> Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Personally I enjoy the British dance bands because they were different
>> to the American and German and Dutch and Swedish - they were British and
>> relied on their own musical traditions as well as the new styles from
>> over there.
>> As for swing, it's OK, but most dance tunes played in the 1930-1940's
>> were not swing numbers. I'd rather listen to Carroll Gibbon's & Savoy
>> Hotel Orpheans or Kurt Hohenberger & His Orchestra playing "There's A
>> Lull In My Life" than, say, Teddy Wilson or Duke Ellington.
>> Kristjan
> -----------------
> I agree, Kristjan, Anne Lenner made a better job of it than Ivie
> Anderson. I also enjoy Henry Hall (with Val Rosing vocals), mainly
> because he wasn't trying to ape the American bands, and the band had a
> beautiful internal balance.
>
> Julian Vein
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