[78-L] Desert Island Discs

[Cary Ginell]

Have you heard Joseph Robechaux's version on Vocalion 2540? That'll cure your ills.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 12:25:38 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Desert Island Discs
> 
> I'm amazed anyone would dare put Lazybones on the radio today. Icky poo. As for 
> Dolly, wassamatta wit' Tony Pastor (or Tom Glazer, when it was still called 
> Buffalo Gals)?
> 
> dl
> 
> On 10/9/2011 12:22 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
> > Listened to Desert Island Discs the other where the guest was children's
> > TV producer Anne Wood. Her first two choices were versions of "Lazy
> > Bones" and "Dance With A Dolly". Unfortunately, they were the two worst
> > versions I have ever heard, the first by Willard White, who sounded like
> > he was auditioning for "Porgy&  Bess" ("...slugs fall offa the vine...")
> > and the second by Clinton Ford, with a backbeat that squeezed all the
> > toothpaste charm out of the tube.
> >
> > The Bill Haley's "Dolly" is a tad too fast. Vera Lynn's too prim and
> > proper (see Youtube). There are other horrors on Youtube!
> >
> >        Julian Vein
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