[78-L] MY HAPPINESS correction

[David Lennick]

Laurenz charted with My Happiness on August 7th and A Tree in the Meadow on 
August 21st. No word about accompaniment. And his Hair of Gold charted 
September 4th, Dick Maltby's Orchestra credited. Did Mercury sign with the AFM 
early or did the alleged owners of the company make some bandleader an offer he 
couldn't refuse? Capitol used Mexican accompaniment but I'm not aware of 
Mercury doing this. Marlin Sisters didn't chart till July 24th, well after Jon 
and Sondra (May 15) and Ella (June 19, with the Song Spinners).

dl


On 11/23/2018 11:57 AM, kil at roadrunner.com.invalid wrote:
> Correction maybe...
> Wikipedia says the original recording was by the Marlin Sisters.
> Second Hand Songs says Jon & Sondra Steele
> Take your pick.
> I'm still wondering about the Laurenz recording.
> This was on Mercury Records.
> Could this have been one of those imported orchestra backings from Canada or Mexico?
> RayK
>>
> MY HAPPINESS
> The Marlin Sisters did it accompanied by the Columbians, who seem to be a harmonica group.
> John Laurenz with a full orchestra.
> Pied Pipers with what sounds to me like a ukulele and xylophone.
> Alan Dale with the Moonlighters and Alan Schackner’s harmonica.
> Jon and Sondra Steele with what sounds like piano and guitar.  They did the original and may have beaten the ban.  The flip side of the Steele’s MY HAPPINESS was THEY ALL RECORDED TO BEAT THE BAN.
> RayK
>
> ---- Rodger J Holtin wrote:
>> We've all encountered the acappella records made during the 1942-45 AFM
>> strike, some are even notable, but I had not realized that they made some
>> during the 1948 strike as well.  I've read numerous places that by the time
>> of the 1948 strike, everybody was geared and ready with lots of stuff in the
>> can.  Courtesy of the local Goodwill, I just stumbled upon My Happiness and
>> Tea Leaves by Ella Fitzgerald with The Song Spinners, on Decca 24446 (April
>> 19, 1948, according to Ty's site).  Also note that Whitburn says this was a
>> top ten (#6) hit for Ella in June of '48, 21 weeks on the charts.  I'm
>> familiar with the tune from some of the old Music of Your Life stations I
>> could get back in the 1980s or 1990s, but don't remember Ella's acappella
>> version, or whatever version I might have heard.  Whitburn lists it also a
>> hit by Jon & Sandra Steele (#2), The Pied Pipers (#3), The Marlin Sisters
>> (#24), and John Laurenz (#26).
>>
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>> I don't have or remember any of those others - were any of them acappella
>> also?
>>
>> Were there other acappella records made during the 1948 Petrillo strike?
>>
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>> Rodger Holtin
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