[78-L] Betty and Bob

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 5 20:02:41 PST 2013


Lawdy, lawdy, I've just discovered the worst big band vocalists ever. Vido 
Musso and his Orchestra, on a Keystone transcription (the cutting looks like 
MacGregor), with BOB STEVENS, who makes Will Oakland sound like Paul Robeson, 
and BETTY VAN, who can't pronounce the letter "r" or any other consonants or 
vowels and is adenoidal to boot. Anybody ever heard of these characters in any 
other context? Did Vido get a record date and just grab two people off the 
street? The songs are pretty awful too (and sound sight-read).

dl



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