[78-L] Vaughn de Leath mystery

[David Lennick]

Mine's on Silvertone 8306, so add that to your copy of Rust.

dl

On 11/1/2010 1:44 PM, smille1 at nycap.rr.com wrote:
> 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
>