[78-L] Betty and Bob

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jan 6 06:14:43 PST 2013


On 1/6/2013 6:36 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 06/01/13 06:40, David Weiner wrote:
>> If it's the same Betty Van, she preceded Martha Tilton with Benny Goodman
>> and sang a terrific vocal on her one Goodman record, "Afraid To Dream" in
>> 1937.
>>
>> Dave Weiner
>>
> ========================
> Don't agree about the quality of the vocal, but she doesn't have any
> problem pronouncing her "r's". After all the song does have "Afraid" and
> "Dream" in its title!
>
>         Julian Vein

This one could have had a really bad cold, but the "r"s are a definite problem. 
It's a Davis & Schwegler recording by the way (Keystone picked up masters from 
a number of producers).

dl


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