[78-L] Woman whistlers

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri May 17 07:22:07 PDT 2013


And on Victor, with Billy Murray (I listed her last night).

dl

On 5/17/2013 10:12 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> Margaret McKee on Gennett.
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> Cary
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> On May 17, 2013, at 3:48 AM, "Rjholtin"<rjh334578 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
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>> Mary Martin sure held her own with Bing on Wait til the Sun Shines Nellie in Paramount's 1942 Birth of the Blues and the commercial Decca is one of the few times the issued record is better thn the soundtrack versiion.  Mary, as I recall, was from Texas, considered by some to be part of the American South
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>> Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng
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>> On May 16, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Malcolm Rockwell<malcolm at 78data.com>  wrote:
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>> A Southern woman friend's mother told her not to whistle. It was unladylike.
>> Besides Sybil Sanderson Fagan, who were other female whistlers on 78?
>> Mal
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