[78-L] You'll Get Used To It

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Thanks, Dave, I always get my Platts and Pratts mixed up.  I'm curious about your line that Carter's is for a different audience; what kind of audience would appreciate Carter's and not Pratt's?  Was Pratt's version released in the U.S.?  Do you know if he ever recorded anything else?  Have you ever seen Zeke Manner's version?  I haven't.

db



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>Pratt..John Pratt. Mayor of Verdun, I believe. It ought to be on the National 
>Library's Virtual Gramophone but I don't know if they got that far before 
>funding was cut off. It might also be in the film "Meet The Navy" which used to 
>turn up on late night television (I once caught the last 7 minutes of it). Wilf 
>Carter's version was for a different audience. Canadian Victor 56-something.
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>(Just came back online after a 2 hour power outage...came down to turn things 
>off and of course check e-mail and Facebook.)
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>dl
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>On 10/30/2013 1:36 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> Talking about humour on RCA Victor records, I just tried to Google "You'll Get Used To It" by a singer whose name, (I thought), was Platt.  He subsequently became an MP in Parliament, (Conservative), a Mayor in Quebec and died about 10 years ago in his 90s.  Perhaps I have the wrong name but even just googling the title and RCA Victor only comes up with Wilf Carter and Zeke Manners, (I've never heard of the Zeke Manners version).  The disc I'm thinking of was quite popular and I'm surprised that it doesn't come up immediately, singer or no singer; in fact, I thought the singer on this record wrote the words for it.  In any case, it's a good example of humour on RCA.  I could look it up in an instant if I were at home but I'm not with my records at the moment.  It is so dramatic as he acts out the words and it makes Carter's version, sung very fast with his guitar, sound almost pedestrian by comparison.  Perhaps the version I'm thinking of was
 only
>>   released in Canada.
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>> db
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