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

[David Lennick]

Sarah Vaughan made a couple of a capella sides, and then Musicraft signed off.

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On 11/26/2018 1:58 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Rodger Holtin
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