[78-L] I give up!

[Ray Kilcoyne]

I remember a nationally known (U.S.) DJ on "The Music of Your Life", playing 
a Jo Stafford-Gordon MacRae duet on Gordon's birthday, as a tribute, but he 
played a Jo Stafford-Nelson Eddy duet, and never noticed the error.  Some 
tribute.
RayK.
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From: Kristjan Saag
Well, I remember listening to my car radio once when they played a
clarinet solo by Sidney Bechet and I was sure it was Billie Holiday.
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Julian Vein wrote:
> A reading from a book about Louis Armstrong. To illustrate an example of
> Louis playing a short solo on a Henderson side, they play an excerpt
> that only has a Charlie Green trombone solo! Go to 8.25. I remember
> years ago someone played a Miles Davis record for an example of John
> Coltrane, but chose one where both he and Hank Mobley played, and they
> only played the Mobley solo... Then there was Charles Edward Smith who
> played a Basie record for an example of Lester Young's style, but chose
> one with a Buddy Tate solo. When the error was pointed out to him, his
> response was "For the purpose of this exercise it IS Lester Young."
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zbv05