[78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)

[Philip Carli]

Going for Baroque - The 1926 Crystal Palace massed MESSIAH excerpts under Henry Wood (using Sir Michael Costa's Victorian "additional accompaniments" of added clarinets, bassoons, French horns, three trombones, and ophicleide - the last covered by tuba in '26) are fun because they're completely anti-Baroque, and I love Sarasate's 1903 breakneck E major unaccompanied prelude by Bach as he plays it like it's a Wieniawski virtuoso encore rather than Holy Writ.  The "Hallelujah Chorus" by Creatore's Band for Columbia in 1911 is also terrific and bizarre. PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of Michael Biel [mbiel at mbiel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:09 PM
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1. Did John Coltrane make any 78s?  If so, they would be the top of my
no redeeming value -- social or otherwise-- list.

2.  Putting Shirley Temple on the list because of a single 78 from what
really the post-78 era is not quite fair because the record mogols of
her star years had the GOOD SENSE to NOT put her on record then, instead
assigning her songs to worthy performers.  I never saw the appeal of
Shirley -- she was a LOUSY actress.  If only Rose Marie was as pretty as
her voice, SHE should have been the child star.

3.  I'm not a real Henry Burr fan -- except for his great rendition of
Irving Berlin's anti-war song "Stay Down Here Where You Belong".  I
don't hate his other stuff, but he's no Billy Murray.

4.  Almost any Baroque music.  DULL, Dull, dull.  Sounds better at 156
RPM.

5.  Atonal Avant-guarde free-form jazz.  Can't name any 78s because I
avoided it too well.  One sax squeak and I'm gone!!!

By the way, at the bottom of this I have cut Dennis Flannigan's likes to
keep them from being misunderstood as a hate list.  That should have
been done long ago.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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Subject: Re: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, December 19, 2012 1:33 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

I got no problems with the brakeman, but Grappelli just sets my teeth on
edge.
Never had the slightest tolerance for him except for a late album he did
with
Diz Disley, by which time his Hungarian restaurant gypsy swoops were
under control.

Fight on!

dl

On 12/19/2012 1:13 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>
> OK, I'll take on both you AND David with one tonearm tied behind my back!
> Cary Ginell (who has 98 Jimmie Rodgers 78s, at most recent count)
>
>> From: Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:10:46 +0000
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)
>>
>> Well, Jimmie Rodgers did more for the NO&NE Railroad than he'll ever do for me. PC
>>
>> "The problem with folk music is that it's written by the _people_..." Tom Lehrer
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>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of David Lennick [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:53 PM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)
>>
>> Definite seconding to Whitfield, Lynn, adding Anne Shelton. And nobody's
>> mentioned Jan Peerce's Bluebird of Happiness, Freddy Martin's Birdshit on your
>> Windowsill (actually Freddy Martin's entire output is pretty high on my list,
>> along with that of all other hotel orchestras with those "silver saxes"), and
>> any Stepon Grapejelly that intrudes for more than 8 bars. He became listenable
>> in the 70s, and that's well after the gawdawful duets with Yehudi
>> thenkyewveddymotch.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 12/19/2012 12:43 PM, Matthew Duncan wrote:
>>> Never hear again? ....here goes....
>>>
>>> 1. Any David Whitfield
>>> 2. Any Bing Crosby
>>> 3. Any Frank Sinatra
>>> 4. Any Vera Lynn
>>> 5. Billy Cotton - "Friends and Neighbours''
>>>
>>> I have valid reasons for the above but some may be horrified by my choices...oh well...
>>>
>>> Matt in the UK
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 19/12/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)
>>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Date: Wednesday, 19 December, 2012, 17:20
>>>
>>> Any Ken Griffin
>>> Any Liberace
>>> Any Nelson Eddy/Jeannette MacDonald/either one solo
>>> (I may have used up my 5 but I'm pressing on)
>>> Any Pee Wee Hunt
>>> And a special plateau in hell for Orrin Tucker's "Oh, Johnny"
>>>
>>> Was Shirley Temple's Lollipop ever on a 78? It would have to be on a "Voice of
>>> the Stars" compilation.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2012 12:09 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>>> Never hear again? Much harder.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Near You - Francis Craig
>>>> 2) A Tisket A Tasket - anyone
>>>> 3) O Sole Mio - Enrico Caruso
>>>> 4) Captain Of The Spaceship - Spike Jones
>>>> 5) On The Good Ship Lollypop - Shirley Temple
>>>>
>>>> Mind you, I have reasons for all of these;
>>>> I'm not just picking them out of the air.
>>>> Malcolm
>>>>
>>>> *******
>>>>
>>>> On 12/18/2012 10:03 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
>>>>> Has there ever been a list of five you'd never want to hear again?
>>>>>
>>>>> df
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