[78-L] Stormy Weather

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Dec 23 15:16:28 PST 2010


Baby's Birthday Party is "sampled" on a private recording I had a few years ago 
(vinyl test) which may have appeared on one of John Newton's LPs, the one where 
Ed Wynn wishes his son Keenan a happy birthday. (I think Keenan was old enough 
to need "that talk" at this time.)

dl

On 12/23/2010 6:13 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Hi,  Dale,
>
> You or No One was one of the Brunswicks I got recently and it is a great
> version of a fine song...1933
>
> Without You,  Emaline is a Columbia from 1930...don't recall the flip side
> of either.
>
> A real surprise among the Columbias I just got was Baby's Birthday
> Party...not as jazzy as the Fred Rich version on the Harmony labels,  but
> quite good.
>
> Taylor
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Van Landingham"<danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Stormy Weather
>
>
> Does anyone out there have Lombardo's Columbia recording of "You Or No
> One"?I
> had it years
> ago(in 1978)and I really enjoyed it;I didn't hear the corn until the records
> he
> cut for RCA in the
>
> late '30s some of which were reissued onto the RCA/Reader's Digest set "The
> Great Band Era"
> which I first heard back in 1966.I now have about three sets of it.I know
> little
> of his Columbia and
> Brunswick output although I had a few of his sides on Brunswick.If I
> remember
> correctly,the rev-
> erse of "You or No One" was "Without You Emaline" with a vocal by Carmen
> Lombardo.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Taylor Bowie<bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 10:21:01 PM
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>
>>>
>> Keep in mind that Lombardo had yet to lock himself into the too-familiar
>> style at this early date...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>
> Uh...thanks, Steve. I'll be sure to keep that in mind.
>
> Actually, you're mistaken. Every element of what was later known as the
> "Lombardo style" is pretty well in evidence as early as the 1927
> Columbias...my point was that the Lombardo style can be used to fine effect,
> and sometimes with genuine jazz touches and color.
>
> Taylor
>
>


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