78 RPM - Jo Stafford - Jolly Jo (M + H + R x 3ee-oo / 4/4 aa3 x 32 = Bop) / Smiles - Capitol - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Jo Stafford
Label:	Capitol
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	CL.13302
Date:	Jun 1950
Format:	10"
Genre:	Pop, Vocal
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Jo Stafford	Jolly Jo (M + H + R x 3ee-oo / 4/4 aa3 x 32 = Bop)	Dave Lambert	9.0 Rate
B	Jo Stafford	Smiles	J. Will Callahan, Lee S. Roberts	Rate

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with Dave Lambert and his Vocal Choir
with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

A side (mx. CAP.4131) recorded Hollywood, CA, April 1, 1949.
B side (mx. CAP.4130) recorded Hollywood, CA, April 1, 1949.
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Number: 3744797

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Uploaded By: James Carson2
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Description: Capitol CL.13302 A side label

Number: 3744798

Uploaded By: James Carson2
Edited By: xiphophilos
Description: Capitol CL.13302 B side label

Number: 3744862

Uploaded By: xiphophilos
Description: Downbeat, May 20, 1949: "Alge-Bop Explains 'Ees' and 'Oos'"

Number: 3745056

Uploaded By: James Carson2
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Comments and Reviews


James Carson2 21st Dec 2024		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.



James Carson2 21st Dec 2024		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



xiphophilos 21st Dec 2024		A side:



xiphophilos 21st Dec 2024		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.



xiphophilos 21st Dec 2024		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."



xiphophilos 21st Dec 2024		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.



James Carson2 20th Dec 2024		The year is meant to be 1949, not 1959, apologies!! mod edit: changed to 1949



James Carson2 20th Dec 2024		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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USA - Capitol - 1949