[78-L] MY HAPPINESS correction

[David Lennick]

I bought the Steeles record decades ago and figured My Happiness was the 
B-filler..it certainly sounded like amateur night. In fact the song sounds like 
the work of an amateur who got lucky. Those first 4 notes should be pickup 
notes, not the first beats..the long notes receive the emphasis.

dl


On 11/23/2018 1:30 PM, Randy Watts wrote:
>   It appears that Wikipedia is incorrect. Jon and Sondra Steele's disc of "My Happiness" appears in the Advance Record Releases section of the January 24, 1948 issue of Billboard. The Marlin Sisters' version of the song doesn't show up in Advance Record Releases until the issue of May 15, 1948.
> Early ads from Damon (the label that issued the Steele's record) were pushing the novelty song on the flip side, "They All Recorded to Beat the Ban," not "My Happiness."Â
> Randy
>      On Friday, November 23, 2018, 10:57:39 AM CST, kil at roadrunner.com.invalid <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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