[78-L] Vaughn de Leath mystery

[Taylor Bowie]

I am sure I have it on an Electrobeam Gennett but the other side is not a 
Laughing Record...I'll try to dig it up/out and let you know.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Vaughn de Leath mystery


> 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:
>> -----------------
>> 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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