Brilliant research! You guys are geniuses! Major kudos to Mr. Rye and Mr. Miller for digging up data on this guy. With that kind of technique and musicianship,...
Here is an absolutely hilarious 1929 Vitaphone clip of the Mound City Blue Blowers, giving a new meaning to the the term kick drum. The percussion consists of...
I think I've seen this before. Vitaphone was a process that used a disk to record the sound and play it back in synch with the film. Out of synch things show...
The personnel includes Red McKenzie on comb and megaphone & Eddie Condon on the first guitar - the splice is in the original film; it looks as if McKenzie was...
Yeah, that toothless kid on kick-drum is terrific, both rhythmically and visually. I'm pretty sure Jack Bland is the other guitar player along with Eddie...
When I taught myself clarinet,I ultimately,learned how to repair them.I took this several steps further when I started to play sax as well as trumpet and...
Can anyone explain to me why the bands listed at the RHJ website in white can't be accessed for listening.At one time,I had some of those recordings on 78 rpm...
I think, Dave, that nothing has been posted on the the site regarding these bands. Even though we may have a lot of information (personally) on many of the...
Thanks to Patrice and really to Mr Dyamond. (?) The views of a practising musician are usually to be welcomed. Also definitely of value, first hand reports of...
I grew up on early country and western music(called "hillbilly" then)by way of my grandfather who was a "hoedown" fiddler(as opposed to being called a...
I am fimiliar with Bob Mayhew because of Sudhalter but I never heard of him until I read Sudhalter's aforementioned book.I have no idea as to the influence Bix...
To jtdyamond: if you will let me know your real name (off-list, if need be) I will forward this to Chris Hillman. I (and others on the list) have his e-mail...
Cicero Thomas is named as a member of this Walter Barnes band at this time in Down Beat for 1 June 1940 (according to Index To Jazz). I thought I had already...
You might have mentioned this before, but I didn't remember whether it was as *Cicero* or as *Lawrence*. Another question is where the suggestion for Cicero...
It is a privilege to hear via Michael from Chris Hillman, undisputed guv'ner in this area, and thanks to both. The test pressing identifying Mutt Carton is a...
With warm thanks to a fellow list member I have now heard the Muscle Shoals Devils sides and there is no aural evidence at all to place Cicero here but rather...
How is it possible that NOBODY,even in the States,has tried to identify the personnel of the many Vitaphones unearthed recently (for me at least)? Even in the...
All the research has been done; full info can be found in the books "Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts"by Roy Liebman and "The First...
Excellent, indispensible (and expensive) as Liebman¹s Vitaphone book is, it does not contain band personnels in the sense that I assume the enquirer is ...
There's a new book out for those who are interested. My copy arrived this week but I can't report on it just yet not having read it. Robert Greenwood. New...
I suppose by now most everyone here has heard/seen Susan Boyle on the Brit TV talent show. It got rave reviews. She did "I Dreamed A Dream" from the musical...
... I think it proves that todays media can push anything they want, they can create and destroy heroes at will, but that is not to put down the Ms. Boyle...
Thanks for sharing this. I think it's wonderful that she's being given a chance to shine on the show. The American edition is all about looks and flash, it...
Susan Boyle reminds us that once in a generation (or two generations), even nowadays, a singer can be acclaimed for the quality of her (or his) voice,...
(Maybe not exactly matching the group's topic, but I cannot resist a polite request. P.) To Be, or Not . . . to Bop Dizzy Gillespie with Al Fraser University...
Dear Howard I have been doing some research on Sam Wooding's stays in Barcelona in 1926 and 1929, and just found your message from three years ago. I'd just...
The Archive has a comprehensive treatment of Paul Whiteman – biographical information, a tremendous set of audio files, a good collection of Paul Whiteman...
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