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[David London]

It's odd that, when they released his version of Deck of Cards on RCA 
45rpm here, the backed it with Woodman Spare that tree.  Which is 
different to the HMV 78 I have of Deck of Cards.   They must have 
decided to mix it up...



On 13/03/13 13:47, kil at roadrunner.com wrote:
> Phil Harris also recorded NOBODY on OKeh 6325 on Dec. 17, 1936, b/w WOODMAN WOODMAN SPARE THAT TREE.
> RayK
>
> ---- Sammy Jones <sjones69 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> I first heard it by Bert Williams on a Radiola LP that contained stars of
>> the Ziegfeld Follies.
>>
>> I was about to write that Eddie "Rochester" Anderson also performed it on
>> Jack Benny's radio show, but I checked first.  He actually sang "Somebody
>> Else, Not Me" on the 1942 version of the Doc Benny Minstrel Show sketch.
>> That's another Bert Williams song.  Phil Harris DID sing "Nobody" on the
>> show from May 23, 1937.
>>
>> Sammy Jones
>>
>>> Message: 13
>>> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:27:42 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Wikipedia
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
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>>>
>>> We had "Nobody" on a Pearl Bailey album my mom used to play often, so I
>>> still have a tendency to associate the song with her.
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 11:07 AM CST David Lennick wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carol Burnett recorded it as well.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 3/7/2013 12:03 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>>>> Bob Hope sang "Nobody" in "The Seven Little Foys" and it appeared on the
>>>>> RCA Victor studio-track LP/EP of the movie.  It is where I first heard
>>>>> the song and learned about Bert Williams.  So there might be some movie
>>>>> fans or Bob Hope fans who might recognize the line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> On 3/7/2013 8:51 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
>>>>> Somebody, not me. 8-)
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From:  Rjholtin
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps nowhere else in the world besides The 78-List would this be so
>>>>> readily recognized as a quote from a now-obscure black man as recorded
>>>>> on a
>>>>> comedy phonograph record from the early Twentieth Century.
>>>>>
>>>>> ...although I'm sure there must be somebody else but us who will know
>>>>> it.
>>>>> Somebody, that is. Somebody....
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:52 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 3/6/2013 5:40 AM, Don Cox wrote:
>>>>> On 05/03/2013, Julian Vein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> "The t'ings dat yo' li'ble
>>>>> To read in de Bible,
>>>>> It ain't necessarily so."
>>>>>
>>>>> So, who can you trust?
>>>>>
>>>>> Whoever sooths your thumpin', bumpin' brain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> But that's..
>>>>>
>>>>> Nooobody.
>>>>>
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