[78-L] Five Faves

[David Lennick]

On 1/12/2011 11:09 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: "Gregg Kimball"<gdkimball at cox.net>
> <snip>
>> 4.  The early fiddling on Starr of Isidore Soucy, especially "Reel Des
>> Cammandos"
>>
> I have a number of these Starr "fiddle" 78's; I always bid on (and often
> won!) these when I saw them on 78 auction lists. Eventually (as I had
> expected) they began attracting higher bids from US "country" collectors!
>>
>> 5.  1920s and 30s Norfolk quartets, especially the Silver Leaf Quartette
>> and
>> the Monarch Jazz Quartet's What's the Matter Now? b/w Four or Five Times.
>>
> I have a few of these...I always bid on (and again, often won!) any
> "Norfolk"
> vocal 78's I saw on lists! One can listen to these records and learn where
> "doo-wop" came from...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
The other day I worked on transfers of a batch of Birmingham gospel groups. The 
Bessemer Sunset Four had a lead vocal who sounds an AWFUL lot like Johnny Mercer.

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