[78-L] Charles Townsend interview

[Cary Ginell]

All one has to do is listen to the Texas Playboys' 1935 recording of the song to realize that he took it directly from Miller's version, not Bessie Smith's.

Cary Ginell

> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:24:16 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Charles Townsend interview
> 
> From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> > Charles Townsend's interview on WKCR was a rambling discourse full of 
> > errors and generalities about Bob Wills' predominance during the formative 
> > years of western swing. Among the statements he made:
> <snip>
> > He said "I Ain't Got Nobody," which Tommy Duncan auditioned with, was a 
> > Bessie Smith song (Wills learned it from a recording by Emmett Miller)
> >
> Bessie didn't make ALL the recordings of "...Nobody;" however, she
> did make a very popular recording of the tune! In that sense, it MIGHT
> be considered a "Bessie Smith tune"...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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