[78-L] Hey, Mabel

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun May 20 09:29:29 PDT 2012


Remember it well..it was a pretty good beer, too.

dl

On 5/20/2012 12:23 PM, Bud Black wrote:
> In the 1950's there was a beer called Carling's Black Label which was touted on TV with a gimmicky phrase in which a guy in a bar would shout "Hey, Mabel!  Black Label!"  Thereby attracting the attention of a pretty waitress.
>
> Bud
>
> David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> Just acquired an odd one here, which seems to exist on a couple of labels, both
>> private.
>>
>> No label identification, LFS-1002-A: "HEY MABEL"--DIXIELAND" (Paul-Davis)
>> --Yank Lawson, Lou McGarity, Artie Baker, Boomie Richman, Joe Harnell, Terry
>> Snyder, Joe Rhodes, Allen Hanlon (yeah, good group!)
>>
>> As above, LFS-1002-B: "HEY--MABEL!" TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (Norworth-Von
>> Tilzer)
>> --Earl Paul Orchestra
>>
>> A Google search for the B side brought up a link to the same recording on PAVIS
>> PV 102, matrix E4-QB-4657. The matrix for the unnamed issue side B is
>> G9-OB-7372. This same link also produced a superimposed ad for American Express
>> which I couldn't remove. Don'tcha just love unremovable ads and unskippable
>> trailers?
>>
>> Anyway..anybody know anything about this record and Earl Paul or Paul-Davis or
>> Earl Paul Davis?
>>
>> dl
>>
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