[78-L] THE DONKEY SERENADE

[David Lennick]

"Jack" as in jackass?

dl

On 8/27/2013 12:37 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
> Thanks guys.  That's exactly why I asked.  Jack was born January 14, 1938.
> As the rumor goes , that is why Allan named his son "Jack".  Get it?
> The Victor Red Seal has the Nat Shilkret Orchestra backing.  I have 5 or 6
> recordings by Jones (none on 78) and I just listened to all of them.  They
> are all different length crops from the soundtrack of "The Firefly" with the
> MGM Studio Orchestra, so I can't check the goof David mentions.  Even the
> track on RCA's 60 Years of Music America Loves Best Vol. II uses the
> soundtrack version.
> Related question...
> Is there no longer any way to search Ty's discography?  I thought it would
> be easy since I had the record label number, but I couldn't locate his
> listing.
> The Honking Duck site now seems to charge for a search.
> RayK
>>
> From: David Lennick
> Don't have Rust's CED handy, but the story I heard years ago was that it was
> the same day or night Allan's son Jack was born, which could have accounted
> for
> his absent-mindedness (he totally misses the first couple of words in the
> second verse).
>>
> Hollywood, January 13, 1938.
>       Julian Vein
>
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