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Wow too. Some find! Thanks a lot! Even though fairly lightweight, it'd deserve an off-the-beaten-tracks reissue to round out the picture of what was popular then. "Savoy Is Jumpin" would be a nice and relaxed one for the dancers to gather some breath between two flagwavers.

Which one - the mickey mouse bandleader of the blues/soul man? Remember PRESTON Tucker was eventually acquitted of the charges raised against him.

Author Jim Dawson quotes McNeely as follows in his biography "Nervous Man Nervous - BIg Jay McNeely and the rise of the honking tenor sax" : "Pete (owner of Pete Canard's Record Shop on 98th and Compton) played me Glenn Miller's "Nothing But Soul", and that was it. That drum sound tch tut, tut tch, just a sock cymbal. From that I wrote the tune, just from that little introduction". BUT - neither Rust not Bruyninckx list such a tune recorded by Miller. So ....?

I saw him in Munich in the late 90s and that concert really was something else. He was amazingly youthful. I am happy I got him to sign the LP covers I brought along. RIP and thanks for blwoing up a storm.

Four of her vocals with the Raymond Scott Orchestra are on the Scott "Uncollected" (1940) LP on Hindsight (HSP-201). Some of ther singing is not as stiff (to my ears) as other big band sides I've heard of her. But "Blueberry Hil" sure had a long way to go between her version and the Fats Domino evergreen!

I think the days whe someone would reissue the complete works of Hal Kemp, for example (which might have happened in the days of these Ajax, Ajazz etc. LP series) are over. There are quite a few Youtube videos of her with old soundies and movie excerpts. Not sure if there would a be a huge market for these "straight" ballads. I also remember seeing and recording on video one Soundie that has three girl singers with the Vincent Lopez orchestra (Betty Hutton doing a totally over-the-top version of "The Dipsy Doodle"; Nan Wynn with a very, very straight tearjerker and a third singer whose name I forgot with another ballad). Nothing at all wrong with the voice of Nan Wynn but this (like those Youtube samples I have listened in) isn't exactly what jazz/swing fans have been waiting for. Jasmine might do it, considering what else they have done in that vein, but how big is THAT market after all? OTOH, maybe better than some of those Mickey Mouse orchestra girl singers trying (and failing) to swing?

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My first Basie record ever ... bought when I was 15 or 16 (at that time that Musicidsic series was all over the place in our record shops here and above all was affordable enough for a student's budget ). I listened to it countless times at that time and it made quite some impression on me and the broadcast atmosphere with announcer 'n all made you feel like you were in front of your radio when the performances were actually broadcast.

Don't, dawg!! I once bought a set of (professional) photo negatives from 1957 at a swap meet and filed them inside their cardboard sleeve and this in turn inside a standard letter-size clear plastic document holder like you put them ni 3-hole binders. The plastic document holder wasnt new at all and things went well for a couple of years but then, after maybe 10 or 15 years or so when I checked again after 2 or 3 years or so I discoved the negative surfaces had become all crumbly, showing a cobwebbed structure and the top layers had started to delaminate. In short, the negatives were shot! A pity because they were one-of-a-kinds and as they were of an odd, no longer-current size that you can only have prints made from at specialist photo shops I delayed this and then it was too late. Gone forever ... The only explanation I have is that some sort of solvents from the plastic material of the document holder evaporated and killed the negatives. (I have older negatives than this that are still fine but they' have been in their cellophane negative strip holders all their lives) I am not so sure that this can NOT interact with acetate materials too.

Regular contributor to JAZZ MAGAZINE in the 50s and into the 60s and one of the few jazz specialists in the early days of jazz coverage on French TV (where he started in 1958 and hosted a regular jazz show in the 60s).

The above clip just as an indicator that there still might be hope in case sidewinder and Brad should aspire to "brother" status. Just a wee bit of leg-pulling, Mike, you know ...

Actually , having been born in 1933 or 1936 (depending on which sources you believe) and having had chart successes from 1957 onwards Dalida does seem to have been a contemporary of the announcer and there was some similarity. But of course, given that there was no twin, it Is just a matter of visual similarity, nothing else. But somehow I can see JSngry's crush on the announcer.

Ah ... so Elvis did "Jailhouse BLUES" at the time these transcriptions were made? Wishful thinking or out-of-touchiness of the '(not so unknown) liner note writer who compiled them from the perspective of a c.1940 bobby-soxer date?

If I didn't know better I might be inclined to assume she was Dalida's twin sister. GEOgraphically speaking that puts things quite a bit closer but BIOgraphically unfortunately it is quite improbable (in-depth genealogical reasearch pending ) because there is no evidence that Dalida had a twin sister.

I have originals of these two Command LPs, guess I will have to give them a closer listen again (after many years' silence) now that you plug them so incessantly.

Well, there is the CD on Blue Moon with his "complete" 1947-55 output. I suppose you are aware of that one. "I'm Wise To You Baby", for example, is a dancing crowd pleaser heard fairly regularly in those circles.

This thread might be better placed in the Jazz in Print section ....

I have virtually everything by him up to and including his Dot album (so basically I would consider myself a fan) but honestly, I am rather on the fence about this one (and am still unsure about the new Verve reissue too, considering the huge overlaps with previous reissues). Listened to the sound samples of the "Lost Singles" and on first impression I must say I do not find those rerecordings or aural updates all that essential. One for ultra-competists acc. to my 2c.

You mean all of Ghost's topics have become "ghosts"?

I don't think that should be a problem for anybody. Thanks beforehand.

Good move, but how would anyone know or remember accurately what there is that might be of primary interest? Did anyone make a list of the existing threads any any time? I am afraid the only option is to unblock them ony by one.

Which would be a real shame.

Not wanting to dismiss him too rashly but for obvious reasons of interest in the music of that era I've had this on my Amazon buying list for some time but reading the reviews in various places has left me with rather mixed feelings about the depth of coverage and I've put it on hold for the time being. Quite apart from all the other books on the Swing era, where would this book fit in and add something profoundly new as a listener's guide beyond the "Swing" volume of the "Third Ear" listening companion book series (which I rather like) and the "Music Hound Essential Album Guide" on Swing (which I had bought before the Third Ear book and still find useful but prefer the Third Ear book now). I do wonder what kind of "companion" this one REALLY is and if he aims at more than the total or almost total newbies to the music. OTOH, if he can provide an up to date guide to where to pick the best reissue(s) by the Floyd Ray band (to name just ONE example ) , then I'll be won over. Edit:Checking again I see that the post-swing big bands of jazz covered in the book should add something new vs the above-listedbooks but I wonder about the balance of it all. Will probably have to check sample pages somewhere. But what I can say I don't like (if the reviews are right in this respect) is listening recommendations based on Youtube. This is for tasters, fast consumption but not for ongoing listening. Besides, how fast is a book based on Youtube availability going to be outdated? (No, I'm not on Facebook and won't be)

I wouldn't hold it against you that you dislike THESE songs. Probably same here if I were to narrow down the selections. I was just wondering because the Jimmy Rushing vocal was in there and so were 1 or 2 Martha Tilton vocals. So no clear criteria for exclusion that were discernible. But never mind. I will check elsewhere. I just thought I'd ask you (as someone who'd checked BG's output closely) because as opposed to discographies like those by Rust or even Bruyninckx there may be more TODAY that have since been issued and would now be part of whatever reissue project there is.

Thanks! Did a quick spot check starting from the end and see a few female vocals are not in your list that are on the LPs. Will have to check against my copy of Rust, maybe.