Latest Updates - Jo Stafford

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Comment by James Carson2:

I was able to find a picture of the smiles side, but it is not mine. I found it on my iPhone gallery, once I am able to locate a copy of my disc I will post post a replacement picture of it

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Comment by James Carson2:

I’d like to confirm that I do not yet own this UK pressing, it is currently listed on eBay for £26 + £6 postage. That is where I got these photos from. If this goes against any rules I’m happy to remove the photos but for now at least we know this is a legitimate release.

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Comment by James Carson2:

Xiphophilos- thanks for all your comments,

https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/57604 here I have submitted the USA pressing, with a photo of the Jolly Jo side I found on my iCloud gallery, it seems I never took a photo of the Smiles side but once I locate the disc again, I’ll be sure to do so

The Jolly Jo side on my USA copy has slight label damage as you can see on the photo but I think Smiles is okay

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Comment by xiphophilos:

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Comment by xiphophilos:

The Downbeat article partially explains this "Alge-Bop" formula:

Melody (M) plus Harmony (H) plus Rhythm (R) times 3 "ee-oo" vocalizations over a 4/4 beat of "aa" vocalizations to the third power times 32 bars equals Bop.

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Lee Ellen Martin writes in a 2016 Pittsburgh Ph.D. thesis entitled "Validating the Voice in the Music of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross," page 154:

"Lambert chose to identify with bebop, and his identification with it was often featured in early reviews of his work. In a satirical display of bebop’s intellectual hipness, a Down Beat review of Dave Lambert and Jo Stafford’s recording of “M+H+R x 3ee – oo/ 4/4 aa3 x 32 bop (Jolly Jo)” refers to Lambert as a professor of “Alge-Bop.” Stafford and Lambert lampoon the visual markers of bebop hipness (see fig. 5.2 = Downbeat article). Stafford wears a beret and horn rimmed glass(es), and Lambert’s goatee is prominent. As a white man and a white woman the intellectualism of bebop is ambiguous (Unfortunately, the dangling modifier in this sentence adds to the ambiguity). Are they countercultural? Or since they are white(,) is this merely a reinforcement of the perception of the overly intellectual and overly white ivory tower? The photo satirizes the intellectualism of bebop for a more mainstream audience and presents the intellectualism of bebop through the guise of a white professor whose job it is to translate the bebop subculture for a white audience. This example reveals how the media carefully negotiated perceptions of race by interweaving the intellectualism of bebop hipness with more mainstream ideals of white-dominated academia."

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Fixed the mock mathematical formula for Bop, as far as that is possible when you have to put it all into a single line.

Since you say you have the US version on Capitol 57-604, James, I hope you'll add it.

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Comment by James Carson2:

The year is meant to be 1949, not 1959, apologies!!


mod edit: changed to 1949

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Comment by James Carson2:

I own the US pressing of this... I've always been intrigued by the title, where on earth did that come from!

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Comment by danceband91:

@jamesc27, Dean Martin's version of "In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening" was released on Capitol CL-13575, but it doesn't look like Rosemary Clooney's had a UK release. According to the book "First Hits", the only other UK issues of the song were by Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman (Brunswick 04760), Art Lund (MGM 438) and The Five Smith Brothers (Parlophone R-3440).

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Comment by jamesc27:

Rosemary Clooney and Dean Martin also recorded this song, does anyone know if their versions got released on 78s in the UK?

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Comment by MrPasta SUBS:

Added purple label images

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Comment by sheepdip1234 SUBS:

Added Side A variation. Larger title and matching Side B.

Please hide my originals if required.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS:

With Paul Weston and His Music From Hollywood.
I omitted the prefix titles, it makes them confusing. Rosabella, Cleo and Herman were characters in Frank Loesser’s Broadway musical score for “Most Happy Fella.”
In the original production “Warm All Over” is sung by Jo, but not Jo Stafford, it is soprano Jo Sullivan.
The storyline has an older man “Tony” marrying a younger woman “Rosabella” who is played by Jo Sullivan. Ironically, in real life, an older Loesser married the much younger Sullivan in 1959. Loesser was 49, Sullivan just 32.
“Big D” has nice guitar breaks.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS:

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Comment by xiphophilos:

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Image {1116116} is the only label with a dotted "i" in the Capitol label name. That also happens to be Capitol's earliest label style, the Label 42:

1942-1944 label with Capitol dome logo extending below the word Capitol, see Label 42 at https://www.friktech.com/btls/capitol/capitollabels.pdf The type face points to a Los Angeles pressing.

Images {1132190} and {1132191} are Scranton represses on the 1945-1946 label with Capitol dome logo no longer extending below the word Capitol, see Label 45 at https://www.friktech.com/btls/capitol/capitollabels.pdf

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Comment by W.B.lbl:

I now have specific data as to the Hollywood {Images #3198847 & 3198848}: The center label specs were 73.0mm (2.874") and the label holes 9.5mm (0.374").

As to what was used in Bridgeport - {Images #607032 & 607033} - the die-cut center labels would have been 76.5mm (3.0118") and the label holes 9.0mm (0.3543").

On both, the large ring was 68.0mm (2.6772") and the smaller ring in the styrene dies 19mm (0.748").

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Comment by Mike Gann:

Changed the date because March, 1948 is not when this was released.