Martin,
I hear you. I picked up the first Documents disc of Mamie Smith, and the
liners were so terrible and ridden with inaccuracies that I was thinking of
scanning it and sending the scan to Tim Brooks to say,
"thank you for making all of this irrelevant."
Uncle Dave Lewis
Lebanon, OH
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Martin Fisher <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Bad writing? Bad grammar?? Misinformation??? Or all three????
>
> Quote from liner notes to 1991 Charly Records/Affinity Box Set CD AFS
> 1018-6 "Louis Armstrong and the Blues Singers 1924-1930"
>
> [Perry] "Bradford, from Montgomery, Alabama, worked as musical director
> for Mamie Smith, and it was his Crazy Blues which launched the singer's
> recording career, resulted in a disc that sold in excess of a million
> copies, and was the first-ever recording by a black artist."
>
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
> Was the writer really trying to say:
>
> [My words in brackets]
>
> [Perry] "Bradford, from Montgomery, Alabama, worked as musical director
> for Mamie Smith, and it was his Crazy Blues which launched the singer's
> recording career, [resulting] in a disc that sold in excess of a million
> copies, and was the first-ever recording by a black artist [to do so]."
>
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
> In an earlier paragraph, which mentions the scarcity of information on May
> "Baby" Mack and Nolan Welsh, it seems the writer is pointing the obscurity
> finger at Billy Jones who is the featured vocalist on one track included in
> the set.
>
> Columbia matrix 140819-2 Harmony 4-H "I Miss My Swiss" by The Southern
> Serenaders (Fletcher Henderson) with Billy Jones on vocal.
>
> "Of Billy Jones, even keen research reveals nothing outside his one-number
> session."
>
> Now I really don't have to explain that one....Do I???
>
> Martin
>
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