[78-L] Ken Griffin

Thatcher Graham thatcher at mediaguide.com
Tue Jan 11 14:08:36 PST 2011


I always liked his verion of Little Red Monkey.


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On 1/11/2011 5:04 PM, Philip Carli wrote:
> He lurked in the subterranean grottos underneath the Des Moines Orpheum, a hideous monstrosity who only emerged to see Ritz Brothers features from his special Seat 5 in the lower left loge and practice on the theatre's disused cipher-ridden 3-manual Morton after the house emptied, gradually shifting to local station KRUD's Hammond with bad sound generators, until he could blackmail record mogul Rodolfo Rondo into becoming his label's principal artist...
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> Even back when I first started collecting 78s as a pre-teen,  poor old Ken
> Griffin has always been the butt of jokes among musicians and collectors.
>
> He made so many records...is there any bio information on him?
>
> He is like the instrumental version of singer Jim Harkins,  who seems to be
> on about 3/4 of the Electrdisk dance sides,  and is terrible on all of them!
>
>
> Taylor
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