[78-L] VERY quiet, WAS What is the singer singing on Raderman's Song of Omar?

[Sammy Jones]

It has been VERY quiet.  Nobody even wanted to talk about Billy Murray and 
the Vitaphone Project...

Sigh...

Sammy Jones

> No idea, but what's with this being the only 78-L message all day today?
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> dl
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> On 7/30/2013 4:40 AM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
>>
>> Emerson 10141
>> February 1920
>> as Plantation Jazz Orchestra
>>
>> Label picture here: 
>> https://www.vmauctions.com/items/item_details.php?id=2523
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>> 1/2 way through the band goes into klezmer mode to give the music an 
>> oriental sound.  Trombone and I think sax or clarinet solos.
>>
>> Near the end, a singer sings three lines which I can't make out.
>>
>> Does someone sing these lines on the versions on OKeh 4092 (is this the 
>> same as the Emerson?) and Gennett 9035, which may be clearer?
>>
>> Is this piece connected to the Rubaiyat?
>>
>> The composer is Leo Edwards, brother of Gus.  Leo also wrote also wrote 
>> Panama Pacific Drag, recorded by Joseph Moscowitz, Fanny Brice's I'm An 
>> Indian and Becky Is Back In The Ballet, as well as If Every Star Was A 
>> Little Pickanniny (and there was a little chicken in the moon --  they'd 
>> cook him on the dipper in the Milky Milky Way and we'd have chicken 
>> dinner every morning, night, and noon.).  Oy!
>>
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