[78-L] Billy Murray's death date

[Michael Biel]

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> From: "Ryan Barna"<ryansrecords1 at hotmail.com>
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> All of Murray's obituaries, plush his death certificate which I've posted at http://www.denvernightingale.com/archive/deathcert.html, indicate his passing date as August 17th. If you read more carefully on page 197 of the Hoffmann/Carty/Riggs book, Billy dies on August 22nd, and "a Requiem High Mass was celebrated at Our Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Church, 10 A.M., Saturday, August 21." (?!)
On 8/17/2011 7:48 AM, bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:

>  Oh my, they celebrated a Funeral Mass. for Billy, on the day
>  prior to his unexpected death !




There are lots of problems like this all thru the book and discography.  
I remember just waslking into the lobby of the hotel the day before an 
ARSC (Nashville??) and being accosted by Anna Marie Manuel and dragged 
over to where a group of 7 or 8 ARSCers were passing around a copy of 
the book which had just been published, and loudly pointing out one 
fault after another.  I finally tempered the conversation after looking 
thru it that it was a good first draft that should have been distributed 
to a few of us for corrections and THEN published.

A few of you might remember that we all first met Anna and her father at 
ARSC Chicago where she told everyone that her ambition was to do a Billy 
Murray discography, and we had to let her down gently by telling here 
that a draft had already been passed around by a Barbara Prosser, but if 
she and Prosser could get together it might work out.  Of course since 
nobody seems to have ever heard from Prosser again, the result was the 
book under discussion.  But I still have my Prosser draft to consult 
along with the book.

I want to find out more about the broadcast you have from 1938.  Do you 
have his appearance on the first Edison Hour broadcast Feb 11, 1929?  I 
issued Edison'sspeech from that broadcast on Edison Speaks, but do have 
the rest of what was recorded toll an amp blew out ("went democratic" is 
what Theodore Edison described it.)

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com