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

David Weiner djwein at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 29 08:27:54 PDT 2012


Or the Benny Goodman Columbia with Billie HALLIDAY?

Dave W.

On 4/28/12 10:15 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>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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