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

[Philip Carli]

VERY surprisingly, "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" is probably the best Ernest Stevens dance recording on Edison - it's really perky and well-done. Quite a pleasure to listen to, which means it was passed for publication when the Old Man wasn't around to clamp his teeth onto the phono frame. PC

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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 10:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was -  five favorites)

Laugh Clown Laugh by Waring's Pennsylvanians is pretty awful as well.

A few more stinkers:

Quintuplets' Lullaby..Bill Barry (Bluebird)
Mister Aeroplane Man (Take Me Up to Heaven)..Vaughn de Leath (Brunswick)
Dirty Hands, Dirty Face..Al Jolson
Sonny Boy..Al Jolson
Bewitched..Bill Snyder (this guy, as well as Roger Williams [who's coming up
next on the list], had to be the inspiration for Paul Weston's hamfisted
"Jonathan Edwards", complete with throwing in more false beats than a Ukrainian
polka band)
Anything by Roger Williams
Rhapsody in Blue, 2 piano version with orchestra by Jose and Amparo Iturbi
Rhapsody in Blue, Earl Wild (not his fault) with Paul Whiteman and a heavenly choir
Boogie Woogie Etude..Jose Iturbi
Anything after 1940 by Joseph Szigeti (Hungarian gypsy tunes don't count
because who can tell if they're out of tune?)
Any Spike Jones with George Rock vocals (trumpet solos, fine! But Little Lord
Fauntleroy and that screaming falsetto is good for about 2 seconds)
Stormy Weather..The Five Sharps (rare, and deservedly so..it's awful!)

That's it for now.

dl

On 12/19/2012 10:28 PM, Tyrone Settlemier wrote:
> OK, on top of my list (tonight) is a cylinder, hope that is ok...
>
> 1.  Rain in the Face by Collins and Harlan.  Albany Indestructible 701.  I like a lot of C&H, but this is probably the most mean-spirited recording I've ever heard.
>
> 2.  Anything by Ken Griffin.
>
> 3.  The Hartz-Mountain parakeet training record
>
> 4.  San Antonio Rose by Lawrence Piano Roll Cook.  Piano is fine.  Sax is lethal.
>
> 5.  Laugh, Clown, Laugh by the Harmonians.
>
> --- On Wed, 12/19/12, Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com>  wrote:
>
>
> From: Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com>
> Subject: [78-L] five least liked 78s (was - five favorites)
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 11:09 AM
>
>
> 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
>
> *******
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