[78-L] Broadway Bandits

[David Lennick]

I'm just curious to hear if the vocalist sounds anything like Dick Todd, as the 
original letter writer thought back in 1986 when things couldn't be instantly 
disproved with one Google or YouTube search.

dl

On 4/15/2013 1:05 PM, Tim Huskisson wrote:
> I have a copy of RZ MR-1282, The Broadway Bandits (Emil Coleman Orch), doing
> "One Morning in May" and "On the Wrong Side of the Fence".
> I can record it for you if you wish.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim Huskisson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Julian Vein
> Sent: 15 April 2013 15:58
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Broadway Bandits
>
> 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
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>> 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
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