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

[banjobud]

I have an Edison Diamond Disk on which the song title reads "When The Little
Yella Fella Plays Piano (Hannay Plays Banjo)."  Obviously, that should be 
Hannah."

Bud 
 
 
 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Cary Ginell
Date: 04/29/12 00:30:38
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Grammatical error on Grey Gull and on Victor
 
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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