[78-L] Fw: 78-L Digest, Vol 26, Issue 44 -Buddy Clark; Kay Kyser

[David Lennick]

Sony Special Products had a Buddy Clark CD which included a complete 
discography, or perhaps complete as far as ARC and Columbias (and OKehs) were 
concerned. To be really complete you'd need to list transcriptions, soundtracks 
etc.


dl

On 11/21/2010 4:53 AM, Burlinson Nigel wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Burlinson Nigel"<burlinson at orange.fr>
> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:58 AM
> Subject: Re: 78-L Digest, Vol 26, Issue 44 -Buddy Clark
>
>
> I have a twenty three page discography of Buddy CLARK
> from 1934-1949 compiled awhile back containing the
> Brunswick, Columbia, Okeh, Meloton, Perfect, Varsity,
> Vocalion and Victor sessions
>
> If anyone is interested I can e-mail it as an attachment.
> burlinson at orange.fr
>
>   I also have a 35 page discography of Kay KYSER on Brunswick
> &  Columbia; again the same remarks apply - just ask!
>
>   Nigel Burlinson
>
>>
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>>>
>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:09:15 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Dan Van Landingham<danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Any Buddy Clark fans out there? (Don't all answer
>>> atonce)
>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Message-ID:<655915.82076.qm at web56601.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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>>>
>>> He was also one of my favourites.I never owned "Linda" but I did have his
>>> Columbia cover of "Baller-
>>> ina" which,I feel,was a better version of Vaughn Monroe's.Another Buddy
>>> Clark
>>> Columbia I have is
>>> his recording of "How Are Things in Glocca Mora" from "Finian's Rainbow.I
>>> do
>>> have a Brunswick 78
>>> with him singing but I would have to back into my filing cabinet to tell
>>> you the
>>> name of the tune and who
>>> the bandleader was.It was a pre-1939 Brunswick.You're right about his
>>> looks in
>>> terms of working in
>>> the movies:he just didn't have it.It's a shame he died so young.Al
>>> Hendrickson
>>> once told me that he was
>>> hired by Ray Noble in 1949 to sing on his Columbia of "Judalein".Al
>>> wasn't too
>>> band a singer either.I
>>> have that one.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Taylor Bowie<bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 10:57:56 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Any Buddy Clark fans out there? (Don't all answer
>>> atonce)
>>>
>>> Buddy Clark's record of "Linda" with the Ray Noble Orch has always been a
>>> great fave of my mine.
>>>
>>> In addition to his big-selling sides for Columbia in the 40s,? I really
>>> enjoy his vocals with the Goodman Orch in 1934-35...esp. the Victor of
>>> "I'm
>>> Livin' In a Great Big Way."
>>>
>>> I think he has a small role in some 40s movie musical...it might be Seven
>>> Days' Leave.
>>>
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "simmonssomer"<simmonssomer at comcast.net>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:36 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Any Buddy Clark fans out there? (Don't all answer
>>> atonce)
>>>
>>>
>>> I really must disagree with your judgment that "the less said the better"
>>> is an accurate appraisal of his art and popularity Cary.
>>> As we know Buddy was one of the biggest post war singing stars. His
>>> record
>>> of "Baby It's Cold Outside" was a huge shlager.
>>> He made hundreds of very good pre WW II sides and I am pleased to have
>>> some.
>>> The only reason he wasn't tapped for movie work was that he was anything
>>> but
>>> photogenic.
>>> I argue that next to Bing Crosby this guy had what was one of? the best
>>> regarded pop voices in the country.
>>> He just didn't look it.
>>>
>>> Al Simmons
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Cary Ginell"<soundthink at live.com>
>>> To:<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:54 PM
>>> Subject: [78-L] Any Buddy Clark fans out there? (Don't all answer at
>>> once)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This was sent to me by Percy Faith's granddaughter, who is a friend of
>>> mine.
>>> Does anyone know of a Buddy Clark collector or fan club where these
>>> recordings can be housed?
>>>
>>> I have a rather extensive collection of the WW II
>>> ? era recordings carefully digitized and preserved with PERFECT
>>> handwritten
>>> ? titles and times by a gentleman Wally Antuck, who I don?t believe is
>>> with
>>> us
>>> ? anymore.? Even while he was doing this work I told him I wasn?t the
>>> IDEAL
>>> ? recipient, to put it mildly, because I?m not at all a fan of vocalists
>>> and
>>> ? Buddy Clark is from a time when ? well the less said the
>>> ? better.
>>>
>>> ? Still, there are probably 50 CD?s full of material
>>> ? that Wally carefully restored taken from THE MELODY HOUR, from 16?
>>> ? transcription discs.? I?ve done some searching, and there don?t seem to
>>> ? be Buddy Clark fans out there.? Wally always said ?I?d know what to do
>>> ? with these recordings when the time comes? only I do not know!? Your
>>> mom
>>> ? was uninterested; she mentioned that outside of these shows that to me
>>> are
>>> ? ?chopped up Carnation Contented Hours? meant for the AFRS, at least in
>>> ? part.? It?s too long before even I was born (!) in 1952 to understand
>>> ? some of these things.
>>>
>>> ? Though there was a rare instrumental/orchestral
>>> ? track or an occasional vocal guest, most shows were strictly Buddy
>>> Clark
>>> with
>>> ? backings by Percy Faith.
>>>
>>> Please contact me if anyone has any leads or interest in this.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>