[78-L] Really preposterous sweet band

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Sat Dec 25 10:47:02 PST 2010


He again had a very hot modern-sounding band for a few years in the early 
40s...then it was back to the old stuff for the rest of his career.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Really preposterous sweet band


> From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>> Yes.I had a Bluebird of his "Stop and Go" band.It wasn't much of a
>> band.The side
> I had
> was "Raining in My Heart".Fortunately,I haven't ran onto more of that
> band.I've
> never h-
> eard any of the bands Garber led that didn't sound like his mickey mouse
> ones.
>
> Garber led a typical "jazz" band 192-3? Thereafter, his band was 
> essentially
> a copy of Lombardo.
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thu, December 23, 2010 9:44:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Really preposterous sweet band
>
> Jan Garbage did manage to break away from the corn crib once in a while.
> Probably found he couldn't make any money that way. And let's be glad 
> Dailey
> had that sideline running a little dance hall on the Pompton Turnpike,
>
> dl
>
> On 12/24/2010 12:32 AM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Chatting with Mr. Barr about Lombardo and Garber for some reason reminded
>> me
>> of another recent arrival in the Olde Recorde Stash...a staff Bluebird
>> from
>> 1938 of "What Goes On Here In My Heart" by Frank Dailey and his "Stop and
>> Go" Orchestra.
>>
>> Until now, I'd thought the most over-the-top sweet stuff might have been
>> from Garber in the 40s, the "Rippling Rhythm" of Shep Fields or maybe
>> Sammy
>> Kaye at his wah-wah-iest.
>>
>> It all sounds like Boyd Raeburn playing "Boyd Meets Stravinsky" compared
>> with Mr. D's stopping and going.
>>
>> I don't even know how to describe it...but it brings to mind a little bit
>> o'
>> Blue Barron, the Charlie Barnett record of The Wrong Idea, with a slight
>> sprinkle of Spike Jones sound effects.
>>
>> Anybody else familiar with these Dailey Stop and Go records? The earlier
>> Bluebirds of Dailey sound nothing like these.
>>
>> I should add that I'm quite taken with this record, maybe because it's
>> so...something.
>>
>>
>> Taylor
>>
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