[78-L] Leona Anderson, et al

[David Lennick]

By the way, there are an awful lot of 20s blues singers who managed to make one or two records (sometimes more) without having the slightest ability to sing on key or to count. I'm digitizing a large collection and sometimes I wonder why I spend each lonely night..torturing myself. (Okay, I get paid to do it.)


And instrumentally yours, there's Harry Snodgrass, the King of the Ivories.
dl

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 20:41:40 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Leona Anderson, et al
> 
> 
> Who's Mlle St. Onge? And Stafford recorded in a wonky voice prior to her Red Ingle sides as "Tommy Dorsey family (Mountain Branch)", rendering "Friendship".
> 
> Florence Foster Jenkins remains the champ, and I've compiled a CD (privately) of all her recordings in the best transfers, plus 17 minutes of interviews with Cosme McMoon, and also included 6 execrable tracks by the unbelievable Ellis and Norma Jean Chadbourne. Send me money, I send you torture.
> 
> dl
> 
> 
> > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 21:01:36 +0100
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > From: ampex354 at gmail.com.invalid
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Leona Anderson, et al
> > 
> > 
> > Or Jo Stafford also as 'Cinderella G Stump'....
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Malcolm <malcolm at 78data.com.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks but I was speaking of artists who actually recorded (on 78s for
> > > the main part) and gained some modicum of popularity. That kinda
> > > excludes most everyone performing on American Idol and it's ilk.
> > > Malcolm
> > >
> > > PS - Wing was originally from Hong Kong, but lives and recorded in New
> > > Zealand, I believe. M
> > >
> > > *******
> > >
> > > On 6/3/2016 7:24 AM, Jeffrey Lichtman wrote:
> > > > There's William Hung of American Idol infamy. Is he still performing?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 6/3/2016 9:35 AM, Malcolm wrote:
> > > >> Seems I answered my own question. There was, in somewhat chronological
> > > >> order,
> > > >>
> > > >> Florence Foster Jenkins
> > > >> Leona Anderson
> > > >> Mrs. (Mitch) Miller
> > > >> Jo Stafford (as Darlene Edwards)
> > > >> Mme. St. Onge (from Ontario, Canada)
> > > >>
> > > >> And they begat a recent (2005 et al) pop singer from New Zealand, Wing.
> > > >> Anyone else?
> > > >> Malcolm
> > > >>
> > > >> *******
> > > >>
> > >
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