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

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Sat Apr 28 21:30:02 PDT 2012


Mine is "Garage Man Blues" by Milton Brown on some Bluebird issues when it should have been "Garbage Man Blues."

Cary 

On Apr 28, 2012, at 6:48 PM, "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl> 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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