[78-L] Tom Berwick, etc.

Sun Oct 31 19:06:41 PDT 2010

Korrekt. George Hall legally adopted not so li'l Dolly in the  mid-thirties.
Wot a nice guy.
As for Kitty Lane, she wasa very good band singer and from what I could see 
from some of her photographs,
a stunning beauty with a gorgeous shape. I often wondered why she was so 
peripetatic.

Al Simmons

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> She made a lot of records on Bluebird as Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol with 
> a
> cut-down version of the Hall band,  and sometimes the full band,  as on 
> some
> of her Variety sides in 1937.  The Dawn Patrol was something akin to the
> Dorsey Clambake Seven of the Crosby Bobcats.
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
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> From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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>
>
> 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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>
> 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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>
>
> 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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>
> 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
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>
>
>> 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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