[78-L] I give up!

[Royal Pemberton]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Ray Kilcoyne <kil at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> 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.
> >
>
> 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."
> >
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03zbv05
>
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