[78-L] Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac

[David Lennick]

I wonder what Farnon had to say about having to accompany Pia Zadora? (Farnon's 
been in my sight lines recently..I found a batch of photographs in a CBC waste 
basket last month, obviously things nobody there was old enough to recognize, 
but they were of the original members of radio's Happy Gang.)

dl

On 5/6/2011 10:50 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> He was hardly a racist, but he turned out to be opinionated. He just didn't
> like Billie Holiday's singing apparently. Or maybe he just didn't like her
> as a person. As I said, he didn't like being interviewed, and you didn't put
> words in his mouth.
>
> Both Ellington and Bob Farnon are two examples of people who would never say
> a bad word about anybody in public, but privately..... that was another
> story. There is an incredible interview with Ellington ca. 1964 with an
> interviewer from Columbia University, and Duke was shockingly open about
> many things. The Institute of Jazz Studies has it, and I've heard parts of
> it.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Mark Bardenwerper<citrogsa at charter.net>wrote:
>
>> On 5/6/2011 9:09, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>>> Mark,
>>>
>>> These interviews we are discussing took place several years after the
>> fact.
>>> The interview that I am referring to took place in the seventies.
>> Obviously,
>>> Wilson could compliment whom he felt like by then. He just didn't think
>> that
>>> Billie Holiday was such a big deal. He preferred other singers to her. It
>>> was just funny how the interviewer tried to get him to say something
>>> complimentary about her and he just wasn't buying into it.
>> I agree. But my point is, was his attitude racist, or based upon other
>> reasons?
>>
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