[78-L] THE DONKEY SERENADE

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Aug 27 12:48:07 PDT 2013


If Jack hadda been a girl he wouldn'a been a jackass. Sheesh, I gotta spell 
everything out around here..http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jenny+ass

dl

On 8/27/2013 3:44 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
> Yes the first time.  Who's Jenny?
> RayK
>>
> From: David Lennick
> Meaning that Jack could have been Jenny?
>>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> "Jack" as in jackass?
>>
> 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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