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78 RPM - Comments by Duke_J

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Duke_J SUBS 5th Dec 2023		78 RPM Danny Cobb With The Paul Williams Orchestra - I Need Your Love / I'm So Happy (1952)	Recorded NYC, December 13, 1951, with Blue Mitchell, trumpet; Lee Pope, tenor sax; Ted Butler, baritone sax; Paul Williams, baritone, alto sax; Lee Anderson, piano; Sam Jones, bass; Joe Booker, drums; and Danny Cobb, vocals (from YT notes) [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 6th Jan 2023		78 RPM Dick "Two Ton" Baker And His Music Makers - I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch) / Near You (1947)	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 2nd Dec 2022		78 RPM Six Blue Chips - Steel Roof / Cheatin' Cheech (1941)	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 1st Dec 2021		78 RPM Josephine Baker et les Comedian Harmonists - Sous Le Ciel D'Afrique / Espabilate (1935)	Josephine Baker was honoured at the Panthéon in Paris yesterday, the first black woman to receive one of the highest honours in France. She worked in France for the resistance to the Nazi occupation, and in her native USA she worked for the abolishment of racial segregation. The ceremony was reported on the news in the UK, accompanied for no obvious reason by a speeded up version of one of her records, which made her sound like some sort of freak like Bridget The Midget. In fact she had a very fine voice, using the French vibrato style of the time which we all know from singers like Édith Piaf [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 19th Nov 2021		78 RPM Lew Stone And His Monseigneur Band - Junk Man Blues / My Woman (1933)	Jolly song, complete with ocarina solo [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 3rd May 2021		78 RPM Slim Gaillard Orchestra - Flat Foot Floogie / School Kids Hop (1946)	[YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 3rd May 2021		78 RPM Slim And Slam - Flat Fleet Floogee / Chinatown, My Chinatown (1938)	The licencious nature of this song had to be hidden from the censors: the title was a nonsence Bowdlerisation of "Flat Foot Floozie with a Floy Floy" which you can look up on Wikipedia if you are so inclined [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 3rd Feb 2020		78 RPM Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra - The Girl In My Dreams Tries To Look Like You / Flamingo (1941)	Another "Flamingo", showing this 78 but presumably remastered for a CD [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 21st Jun 2019		78 RPM Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - Flamingo / Keni B'Sindika (1953)	A-side will be the popular tune of the day [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 21st Jun 2019		78 RPM Kenny Graham's Afro-Cubists - I'll Remember April / Jump For Joe (1953)	[YouTube Video] Jump For Joe is upbeat jazz [YouTube Video]
Duke_J SUBS 10th May 2018		78 RPM Johnny Mathis - Wonderful! Wonderful! / When Sunny Gets Blue (1956)	When Sunny Gets Blue, with Ray Conniff and his Orchestra [YouTube Video]