Word: vocalions
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...himself on being a crack dancer--it is just a wee bit difficult . . . Jimmy Dorsey's record of "Body and Soul" pretty definitely proves Bob Eberle to be the best male band singer in the country . . . "Melancholy Lullaby" by the same outfit is ok, although the Benny Carter version (Vocalion) is better. Helen O'Connell's singing sounds much better. Incidentally, the three items this column picked last year were Miss O'Connell, Woody Herman, and Jimmy Dorsey. The first has been getting more publicity than any other singer in the business. Woody is certainly...
...Love for You (Red Norvo; Vocalion). Schmalz-of-the-month...
Last spring Billie Holiday went to the Manhattan studios of the Vocalion Company, which has her under exclusive contract, to make a batch of records. One number, which she had been singing at a new downtown hotspot called Café Society, she particularly wanted on wax. Called Strange Fruit, it had been written by a libertarian New York public school teacher named Lewis Allan and its lyric was a poetic description of a lynching's terrible finale. Billie liked its dirgelike blues melody, was not so much interested in the song's social content. But Vocalion...
...Lamp is Low (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion), another tuneful theft from the semi-classics-this time from Ravel's solemn Pavan for a Dead Princess. Tommy Dorsey has made a dancier version for Victor...
...studio asked the Count to play the "Miss" which he had just written a few days before in Boston. Count did, and unbeknownst to the band, the rendition was recorded on a 16-inch master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears that a be-spectacled clarinet player is going to start recording for them shortly . . . Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz...