[78-L] Who is that guitar?

[Joe Scott]

The guitarist on "All Women Are Wolves" by Bill McCune on Stork seems to fit the same description, so you might want to check if it sounds like the same guitarist, it's on youtube. The McCune record was listed in Billboard's Advance Record Releases on 5/11/46, the Price/Sisson on 6/1/46.
Joseph Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Biel
Sent: 09/09/13 03:52 AM
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Subject: [78-L] Who is that guitar?

I picked up an unassuming post-war recording of 20s singer Georgie Price and got a whale of a surprise. There is a hot electric guitar -- and possibly also a clarinet -- in Kenn Sisson's orch. The record is Stork ST 1011-A (CR 1011A JB WD) "Bye Bye Blackbird" Stork ST 1011-B (CR 1011B JM-FR) "Happy Anniversary" (Price) George Price Kenn Sisson and Orchestra The B side is a rather pedestrian song he wrote and sings in an unaffected voice. the guitar is not there. The A side pulls out all the stops in his Jolson/Cantor/Jessel delivery, and then in comes this guitar from nowhere, quite separate from the orchestra -- it might be an overdub. Near the end it seems as if there is also a clarinet playing along behind the guitar. I had never heard of Sisson before. He was a pianist with Ben Bernie who formed a band in 1927 and recorded briefly for Brunswick -- but long enough to make the first recording of Old Man River on the day Show Boat opened, Dec 27, 1927, with an un-billed, unrecognizable, and unrestrained Irving Kaufman taking plenty of liberties with this up-tempo rendition of a song nobody had ever heard before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcswtJGegEk Sisson died in 1947 so this is at the end of his career, but does anyone have info on personnel in the 40s? The guitar has all the earmarks of a Les Paul, and it could be an overdub. Anybody else have this record? It is a plain silver on black label with a NYC location. Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l