[78-L] Grammatical error on Grey Gull and on Victor

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Apr 28 19:15:24 PDT 2012


How about the Xavier Cugat 78 on Victor with vocal by Dinah SHAW?

dl

On 4/28/2012 9:47 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> Even Victor makes errors. My favorite is:
> Vic 21574-A by Jimmie Rodgers was titled on the first edition
> "My Little Old Home Town In New Orleans", which was corrected to "... Down...".
> Reportedly the error reappears on Bluebird B-5609.
>
> And names of composers have evident misspellings:
> 20778 Davenport Blues (Bix Biederbecks);
> 22049 Some Of These Days (Shelton Brookes);
> 21998 S'Posin' (Andy Razof-...);
> 20460 Hot Notes (Rodermich-...);
> 21703 Got Everything But You (...-Rezaf);
> 22691 Ho-Hum (...-Dana Suese).
>
> han enderman
> ===
>>>> On 4/28/2012 3:12 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: Mike Daley<mikedaley at gmail.com>
>>> I was surprised to see the label of Grey Gull 2432, "When Your Dancing
>>> 'Neath The Dixie Moon" (Ryan) by the Radio Boys. This has to be the
>>> first spelling or grammatical error that I can recall seeing on any
>>> label of the period. Is this more common than I think?   Mike
>>
>> Actually this could be grammatically correct if it is the first part of
>> a sentence, such as "When Your Dancing 'Neath The Dixie Moon Makes The
>> Moon Feel Like Sour Cheese."  Sorta like the TV disaster show, "Dancing
>> With The Stars".
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
> Nice to have it confirmed that illiteracy is nothing new. The Toronto Sun and a
> local news channel CP24 are notorious for this kind of thing.
>
> dl
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