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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 30 12:42:25 PDT 2012


Or Luis Russell's CASE ON DAWN which was supposed to be EASE ON DOWN.

Weren't there a couple of Fats Waller titles that were reversed and stayed that 
way?

Then there's the Sibelius Karelia Suite with a March that's a Serenade and a 
Serenade that's a March.

dl

On 4/30/2012 3:30 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Or Louis Armstrong's NEW DO YOU CALL THAT A BUDDY on Decca instead of NOWŠ.
>
> Dave W.
>
> On 4/30/12 3:03 PM, "J. E. Knox"<rojoknox at metroeast.org>  wrote:
>
>> Greetings from FixitLand!
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>>> How about the Xavier Cugat 78 on Victor with vocal by Dinah SHAW?
>>
>> Mike Daley wrote:
>>
>>> Strictly speaking these are typographical errors and not
>>> grammatical errors. I can't recall having seen a your/you're or
>>> it's/its error elsewhere.
>>
>> True enough...and I might mention Victor's occasional "--Fox Frot,"
>> "--Tox Trot" or even "--Fox" without a Trot at all. Also saw one with
>> "Fox Tro" missing the last 't'.
>>
>> It's not a 78, but I just got a copy of The 4 Seasons' "Big Girl's
>> Don't Cry" [sic] on Vee-Jay...and there's "Pipeline" by the Chantay's
>> [sic] on Dot...
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>>
>> Joe
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