[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 37, Issue 18 - Desert island Discs

[Nigel Burlinson]

Julian

The reason, I think, that these versions were used is because they are both 
availble
on CD and the BBC tends not to use 78's if it can possibly avoid having to 
do so
(too fiddly!). There are frequent complaints that Radio 3 (Classical Music) 
refuses
to play even LP's, let alone 78's!!


The only person I know who does use 78's on his programme is Desmond 
Carrington,
Friday at 7pm on Radio 2; he has nearly 250,000 records (not all 78's!) at 
his home in
Perthshire and he's 85 years old and has just celebrated 30 years of his 
slot.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014vy26

Nigel Burlinson.



> Message: 20
> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:22:45 +0100
> From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
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> 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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> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 12:25:38 -0400
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> 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
>
>