[78-L] HAPPY BIRTHDAY

[David Lennick]

Wasn't Mickey's version released as Schlemiel of Fortune? It appears on the 
ASCAP list (under the correct title, of course).

dl

On 7/21/2014 11:15 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>
> Wow, two great sites.  The second one is a bit suspicious as it omits the
> Bell Sisters and Bobby Wayne and the Four Flames.
> But the first one omits some too, Arthur Prysock, the Beverly Sisters and
> Mickey Katz.
> Between the two there's a lot of info.
> I'll probably be surfing around them for hours.
> Thanks.
> RayK
>>
> From: David Lennick
> The ASCAP site lists artists who recorded it but no dates. Johnny Hartman
> might
> be the first...August 6, 1951. Sunny Gale is just shown in Lord as "late
> 1951".
> The WonkyPackia article about The Cardinals is full of inconsistencies
> (Abramson discovering the group in 1951, then having them come to NY in
> 1950,
> releasing the song in February 1951 etc).
>
> Sorry Johnny, you've been displaced by Al Costello. Who!?
> http://www.secondhandsongs.com/work/89387/all
>
> Yep. Al Costello, on Crescendo.
> http://www.originals.be/en/originals.php?id=6838
> Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>> Happy 92nd Birthday to Kay Starr.
>> Over on Facebook a question has arisen.
>> It is agreed that Kay was not the first to record WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
>> But who was?
>> Sunny Gale?
>> Johnny Hartman?
>> The Cardinals?
>> Does anyone have dates for these?
>
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