[78-L] One of ours on front page

[warren moorman]

Fellow 78-l'ers, I must tell you I'm rather chagrined about that article. When the writer contacted me to ask about the segregated seating question, which answer I thought was common knowledge, I had no idea he'd turn it into such a piece. He implied it was going to focus on the segregation, presumably because we're in black history month. I specifically told him I did not want it to be about me, but rather about the musical details and the sociological issue. For goodness sake, he contacted me saying he just wanted photos of the pre-war show tickets!

Much worse, he seemed to get the basic premise wrong, leaving the impression that I said promoters had more leeway under segregation than they ever did. I should have been more apprehensive when I realized that he barely registered on names as important as Fats Waller and Ethel Waters. (he'd never heard of Jimmie Lunceford at all).

And he got other basic facts wrong despite my telling him correct ones. Worst of all, I don't give a damn about freaking Wayne Newton, for crying out loud, he asked me about him! That's the very kind of gee whiz crap that's the antithesis of research about significant musicians like Frank Newton, where my interest lies, and not in routine visits by national acts, which he called a big part of my efforts. I'm far from any sort of expert, but since my interest was partly sparked in the first place by meeting the late Jim Walsh, I'm hoping maybe at least the shellac-ophiles here might understand my frustration, particularly as I've got pending research of some actual importance to release.

So, ambivalence verging into despair is my current reaction.

I mean, who ever heard of a record collector being neurotic?

W





On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:09 AM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
  
On 04/02/14 15:09, Don Chichester wrote:
> Warren Moorman of Roanoke VA made the front page of today's Roanoke Times.
>  
> http://www.roanoke.com/news/columns_and_blogs/columns/dan_casey/article_e0df4398-8d37-11e3-b890-0017a43b2370.html
>  
> Don
>                           
> _______________________________________________
>
Part of "Echoes of the Storm" was recorded by Ewing Nunn on a game 
preserve near Roanoke. Issued on Audiophile AP-20.

      Julian Vein

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