[78-L] William "Billy" Costello and other animated short personalities on record

[David Lennick]

Correct..and more embarrassing since I'd been trying to keep the Barnacle Bill 
references correct last week and kept screwing 'em up even worse.

dl

On 1/25/2011 7:12 AM, Rockined1 wrote:
> wrong digit--it was 1930 :)
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> Sorry, lost a digit there.."1931" for Barnacle Bill.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 12:49 am
> Subject: Re: [78-L] William "Billy" Costello and other animated short personalities on record
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> Sorry, lost a digit there.."1931" for Barnacle Bill.
> On 1/25/2011 12:47 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>   For what it's worth, the "Popeye" voice predates any actual Popeye cartoons by
>   a number of years and on Waring's records, it's done by drummer Poley
>   McClintock. A similar voice sings the last line of Hoagy Carmichael's
> Barnacle
>   Bill the Sailor" in 193..still before Costello or anyone else was voicing
> opeye.
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>   Costello also recorded as Red Pepper Sam. Great stuff.
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>   dl
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>   On 1/25/2011 12:34 AM, Tim McCormick wrote:
>> A few years ago, I purchased my first William "Billy" Costello 78 from a
>> Kurt Nauck auction.  I recently purchased Victor 20146-B, Bolshevik-Fox
>> Trot, Waring's Pennsylvanians, and there was the unmistakable Popeye The
>> Sailor Man voice again.
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>> So this got me to thinking, Warner Brother's made dozens of animated shorts
>> featuring many famous recording and radio personalities.  So, how many
>> animated short personalities were ever featured on 78 recordings?  If anyone
>> is interested, I'd love for them to submit an article to In The Groove
>> recounting this fascinating interaction between entertainment mediums.  I'd
>> also love an article just on William "Billy" Costello especially if anyone
>> has a photograph of him.  There is so little known about this amazing,
>> though hard to work with talent.  Please send your articles or questions to
>> me at Editor at MAPS-ITG.org
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>> Thanks,
>> Tim McCormick, President (and editor)
>> Michigan Antique Phonograph Society
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