[78-L] Vaughn de Leath mystery

[smille1 at nycap.rr.com]

Not sure how rare it is...I have it, though.  It's a pretty funny disc.  My
copy is on Challenge, I think, pressed from Gennett masters IIRC.

Sean

Original Message:
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From: David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:41:52 -0400
To: 78-L at 78online.com, toastOfNewYork at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [78-L] Vaughn de Leath mystery


Vaughn de Leath recorded "By the Omelette Sea" in January 1927. Anyone
hearing 
this would think it's a takeoff on Frank Crumit's "A Gay Caballero"..except
for 
the fact that Crumit's song wasn't recorded till over a year and a half
later. 
So what's going on here? Is there a common antecedent? Similar melody, some
of 
the same rhymes, same limerick construction.

The reverse is another attempt at creating a "Laughing Record" with VdL
doing 
her Fanny Brice imitation and a bunch of Gennett employees laughing 
uproariously (in the wrong places) at a bad violinist.

(Is this record scarce? Seems to be one of the few VdL records Brian Boyd 
didn't own.)

dl

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