[78-L] Five Faves

[David Lennick]

I presume there'll be something from Dust To Digital of this Birmingham 
material. I also heard some that sounded very much like barbershop, and one 
side I transferred was more C&W (Jimmie Rodgers style) than gospel, by the 
Golden Leaf Quartet.

dl

On 1/13/2011 7:25 AM, Gregg Kimball wrote:
> Steven, the connection to Doo Wop is an interesting one, but not one I've
> studied.  Is there a work that discusses the regional origins of Doo Wop
> artists?  I suspect many did come up from Hampton Roads and NC into the
> hotbeds of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. One of the few vocal
> quartets still working in Virginia, the Paschall Brothers, told me that
> their father came up from Eastern NC first to Hampton Roads and then to
> Philadelphia, where he made a few quartet recordings.
>
> Dave, I wish I had a better handle on the Birmingham sound.  I just listened
> to the Birmingham Quartet, Birmingham Boys / Southbound Train, last week,
> and it sounded very barbershop-y, much more so than most of the Hampton
> Roads groups. But that could be a function of chronology rather than
> geography.
>
> Gregg Kimball
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Five Faves
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> dl
>>