[78-L] MY HAPPINESS or 1948 AFM strike acappella recordings

[Michael Biel]

I think the most historically significant Acapella record of the 1948
strike was Al Jolson's Hatikvah / Israel  He wanted it released to
commemorate the founding of Israel in April 1948.  It is not noticeable
about the lack of an orchestra because so many cantorial records were
made with just a choral background, including  his Jazz Singer
soundtrack Kol Nidre.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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Subject: Re: [78-L] MY HAPPINESS or 1948 AFM strike acappella recordings
From: kil at roadrunner.com.invalid
Date: Fri, November 23, 2018 10:14 am
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com


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).
> 
> 
> 
> 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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