[78-L] Leona Anderson, et al

[Malcolm]

Aside from singing with her nose and throat and a fast vibrato she has a 
tendency to sing sharp, especially on held notes. While the main pitch 
may be close, the upper end of her vibrato pushes sharp. I wouldn't call 
her a blues singer by any stretch of the imagination. IMHO, she's 
strictly a pop singer and not a very good one, at that.
Malcolm

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On 6/4/2016 9:22 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Yry  Lillian Delk Christian (who even recorded with Louis Armstrong) for
> horrendous 1920s blues vocalizing.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
> On 6/4/16, 7:54 PM, "David Lennick" <78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> on behalf of dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
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