[78-L] Ol' Man Mose link

[Royal Pemberton]

PS--That's referring to Parlophone in the UK of course.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rust, in the AMERICAN RECORD LABEL BOOK, in the chapter on Parlophone:
> 'In November 1938, Parlophone issued Eddy Duchin's 'Ol' Man Mose'.  It was
> instantly withdrawn on the grounds that the vocalist, Patricia Norman, used
> an Anglo-Saxon expletive repeatedly throughout.'
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> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>
>> Just about to say the same thing. While Victor's execs just couldn't hear
>> "sh*thead" in Barnacle Bill, they'd have jumped on this one immediately if
>> "phuquit" had been uttered. Records were pulled off the market for far
>> less by
>> major labels. Decca recut "My Sweet Hunk o' Trash" even though the word
>> might
>> or might not have been there..why tempt fate?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/19/2011 11:22 AM, Tim Huskisson wrote:
>> > I hadn't heard of Willie Farmer. Nice band.
>> > But I don't hear the 'F' word in this version any more than in the Eddy
>> > Duchin version. The idea that a solo vocalist - exposed as it is, would
>> ever
>> > have got away with using an expletive seems absurd to me.
>> >
>> > Tim Huskisson
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
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>> > [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Dennis
>> Flannigan
>> > Sent: 19 January 2011 06:31
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>> > Subject: [78-L] Ol' Man Mose link
>> >
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