[78-L] New DON RAYNO PAUL WHITEMAN book

[Harold Aherne]

Interestingly, Laird did not include the matrix in question (W404008) in "Moanin' Low", a work covering female popular vocals (in English) recorded from 1920-33 and which was published eight years before the OKeh discography. The Mildred Bailey section shows "What Kind o' Man Is You?" with Eddie Lang's orchestra as her only recording before 1931, and the Jeanie Lang chapter includes only her vocal refrain on the PW orchestra's disc of "Ragamuffin Romeo" (Col 2170-D) and the same title on the KING OF JAZZ soundtrack.
Perhaps the OKeh files show Jeanie Lang as the vocalist. If so, it wouldn't be the first time that this kind of inaccuracy existed. Most published sources show Bob Borger as the vocalist for George Olsen's recording of "I'm in the Market for You" (PBVE-54592, 9 Feb. 1930), but aurally it sounds very much like Fred MacMurray, and that's who I'm inclined to believe is the singer.
-HA

--- On Wed, 1/2/13, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] New DON RAYNO PAUL WHITEMAN book
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Cc: "ToastOfNewYork at yahoogroups.com" <ToastOfNewYork at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 2:05 PM

The attribution to Jeanie must have come from somewhere.,.it's in Rust's ADBD 
and Ross Laird's OKeh book (which has input from Rust).

dl

On 1/2/2013 2:49 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Hope you all had a terrific new year celebration! I'm celebrating with the
> new Paul Whiteman Volume 2 book by Don Rayno, which was delayed quite a
> while ­ I was getting updates from Amazon every week or so since the
> original publication date of August 2012 was apparently delayed ­ it finally
> arrived just before the New Year and is about twice as thick as the first
> volume! I'm fully immersed and enjoying it immensely. The only
> disappointment is the repetition of several inaccuracies that have been
> perpetuated in discographies since a year from Shevuos, Like saying that
> vocalist Jeanie Lang is credited on the label of Trumbauer's "I Like to Do
> Things For You."  The label says only, "with vocal refrain," which is
> actually Mildred Bailey, as Rayno correctly observes.  Quite a few alternate
> Whiteman takes that were issued on CD by RCA some 20 years ago are still not
> included and very surprisingly, one of Paul's last recordings, a special LP
> for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, is mentioned nowhere.  And some obvious
> details are missed ­ for example, no mention that the Modernaires' wordless
> vocal on the Decca "I'm Comin' Virginia" is based on Bix's solo with Tram.
>
> But these are tiny complaints in a massive pile of great new information and
> terrific photographs.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
>
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