[78-L] Broadway Bandits

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 15 08:18:58 PDT 2013


On 4/15/2013 10:58 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 15/04/13 15:45, David Lennick wrote:
>> I've just been thumbing through some issues of Memory Lane, and in the Summer
>> 1986 issue, Norman Stewart writes of finding a Dick Todd vocal on RZ MR 1282,
>> The Broadway Bandits, doing "One Morning in May" and "On the Wrong Side of the
>> Fence". This seems impossible on every level, but does anyone have this record?
>> Per Rust-Forbes, the Broadway Bandits are a pseudonym for Billy Cotton, who
>> didn't record either song (the latter isn't even in the title index), and Dick
>> Todd was probably still attending McGill in 1934.
>>
>> dl
>> _______________________________________________
> ADBORAF shows this as a Emil Coleman session of January 11, 1934, and shows the pseudonym, but doesn't include it in the list of pseudonyms. The vocalist is given as Jerry Cooper for the whole session.
>          Julian Vein
> _________________________________

Thanks..ADBD gives the same info and on page 197 shows Broadway Bandits as a 
pseudonym on RZ for Ben Selvin, Meyer Davis, Emil Coleman and Harry Rosenthal. 
Now, does Jerry Cooper sound like Dick Todd?

dl



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