[78-L] THE DONKEY SERENADE

[Dave Burnham]

A jennyass is a female jackass. 

db

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On 2013-08-27, at 3:44 PM, "Ray Kilcoyne" <kil at roadrunner.com> 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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