John Walker leader / Larry Hensley mandolin & guitar / Mack Taylor mandolin / Albert Walker.
Recorded in January 1934.
Walkers' Corbin Ramblers - Vocalion 02719 (1934)
John Walker was the Mayor of Corbin, Kentucky and formed a band specializing in Appalachian old time music.
John Walker leader / Larry Hensley mandolin & guitar / Mack Taylor mandolin / Albert Walker.
Recorded in January 1934.
John Walker leader / Larry Hensley mandolin & guitar / Mack Taylor mandolin / Albert Walker.
Recorded in January 1934.
Count Basie & His Kansas City Five & Seven - 12" Mercury Album A-39 (Originally on Keynote) (1944)
Made a rare mid-week record shop stop today and was able to have first pick on a box of 12" 78 albums. Every single one was classical (not into those but I have countless sets in my garage) but there was one lone jazz album which seemed sorely out of place.
The liner notes, by John Hammond, explain how these four sides were originally released as singles on the Keynote label (1302 & 1303) but for the first time, Mercury had gathered and released them in one set. He even wrote how Mercury had pressed these using new plates. (If you look closely at the photo below of 6 Cats And A Prince you can see the Keynote label underneath the Mercury one...hmm.)
Buck Clayton t / Dickie Wells tb / Lester Young ts / Count Basie p / Freddy Green g / Rodney Richardson sb / Jo Jones d.
Recorded in New York on March 22, 1944.
The liner notes, by John Hammond, explain how these four sides were originally released as singles on the Keynote label (1302 & 1303) but for the first time, Mercury had gathered and released them in one set. He even wrote how Mercury had pressed these using new plates. (If you look closely at the photo below of 6 Cats And A Prince you can see the Keynote label underneath the Mercury one...hmm.)
Buck Clayton t / Dickie Wells tb / Lester Young ts / Count Basie p / Freddy Green g / Rodney Richardson sb / Jo Jones d.
Recorded in New York on March 22, 1944.
Kid Ory & His Creole Jazz Band - Columbia C-126 (1947)
Edward "Kid" Ory tb / Thomas "Papa Mutt" Carey t / Albany "Barney" Bigard cl / Albert "Buster" Wilson p / Arthur "Bud" Scott g / Edward "Montudi" Garland sb / Minor "Ram" Hall d.
Album released in 1947.
Liner notes by George Avakian. Cover art by Jim Flora.
Album released in 1947.
Liner notes by George Avakian. Cover art by Jim Flora.
Diosa Costello With José Morand & His Orchestra - Decca Album-147 (1940)
Five months after I had originally posted this, I received an email from Maria Foley, daughter of actress Anna Navarro (she starred in Frank Sinatra's First Deadly Sin and Hitchcock's Topaz!) and great-niece of The Latin Bombshell herself, Diosa Costello.
First, a revision to the original post below is in order...Ms. Costello was born in 1913 (not 1917 as is listed in places on the net) meaning in three months, she will celebrate her 100th birthday!
Ms. Foley also told a very interesting story about the night "Titi Diosa" was performing a show in New York when Virginia Hill (the infamous girlfriend of the mobster, Bugsy Siegel) walked in. Ms. Costello mentioned to Hill how much she liked her dress, prompting Hill to disrobe then and there and give it to her. Hill watched the show in the audience wrapped only in her mink.
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Grabbed this album set on my last record hunt...and am so glad I did. The album looked new and so did each record.
Doing some quick research on Diosa Costello, I found that she was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico in1917 1913 and soon moved to a house near El Morro in San Juan where she would dance on the street for pennies. She later moved to New York and eventually became the first Latina actress to appear on Broadway. It was in the 1939 Broadway production where she urged producer (and rhumba fanatic) George Abbott to create a role for an unknown, Desi Arnaz.
She appeared in the last Laurel & Hardy Hollywood movie, 1945's The Bullfighters, where she performed The Latin Bombshell dance routine that she was known for.
1950, she was persuaded to play the part of Bloody Mary in a stage production of South Pacific eventually replacing Juanita Hall in the Broadway production.
In a 2011 interview for Smithsonian, she was asked who she would want to portray her in a movie. She answered, "I would want JLo to play me. She’s a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. I lived in the Bronx for a long time (in a Jewish, not Latina neighborhood). She married a skinny musician, I was married to Pupi Campo, who was a skinny musician. She’s got the tuchis; I have the tuchis—although mine is the original, the cutest."
Well...she could arch her back and dance all over the place with a glass of water sitting on her "tuchis" and not spill a drop.
Decca Album 147 recorded in 1940.
First, a revision to the original post below is in order...Ms. Costello was born in 1913 (not 1917 as is listed in places on the net) meaning in three months, she will celebrate her 100th birthday!
Ms. Foley also told a very interesting story about the night "Titi Diosa" was performing a show in New York when Virginia Hill (the infamous girlfriend of the mobster, Bugsy Siegel) walked in. Ms. Costello mentioned to Hill how much she liked her dress, prompting Hill to disrobe then and there and give it to her. Hill watched the show in the audience wrapped only in her mink.
Diosa Costello in that very dress
Diosa & Desi Playbill
Anna Navarro and her Titi Diosa
Robert Wagner (Anna's date for her Sweet Sixteen given by Titi Diosa)
Anna in NBC's 1956 Deb Star Ball
Anna and Frank Sinatra in First Deadly Sin
Hitchcock's Vision of the Pieta with Anna from Topaz
Anna (on ground) on the set of Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz
Grabbed this album set on my last record hunt...and am so glad I did. The album looked new and so did each record.
Doing some quick research on Diosa Costello, I found that she was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico in
She appeared in the last Laurel & Hardy Hollywood movie, 1945's The Bullfighters, where she performed The Latin Bombshell dance routine that she was known for.
1950, she was persuaded to play the part of Bloody Mary in a stage production of South Pacific eventually replacing Juanita Hall in the Broadway production.
In a 2011 interview for Smithsonian, she was asked who she would want to portray her in a movie. She answered, "I would want JLo to play me. She’s a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. I lived in the Bronx for a long time (in a Jewish, not Latina neighborhood). She married a skinny musician, I was married to Pupi Campo, who was a skinny musician. She’s got the tuchis; I have the tuchis—although mine is the original, the cutest."
Well...she could arch her back and dance all over the place with a glass of water sitting on her "tuchis" and not spill a drop.
Decca Album 147 recorded in 1940.
Joe Turner - MGM 10274 (1949)
Have owned and sold many Joe Turner 78s over the years, mostly on Atlantic and a few on Decca, but this is the first one I've found on the MGM label.
Turner recorded ten sides for the label, all in 1949.
Joe Turner v / Walter 'Dootsie' Williams t / Kirtland Bradford as / Maxwell Davis ts / Jewell Grant bar / Pete Johnson p / Herman Mitchell g / Ralph Hamilton sb / Jesse Sailes d.
Recorded in Los Angeles in 1949.
Turner recorded ten sides for the label, all in 1949.
Joe Turner v / Walter 'Dootsie' Williams t / Kirtland Bradford as / Maxwell Davis ts / Jewell Grant bar / Pete Johnson p / Herman Mitchell g / Ralph Hamilton sb / Jesse Sailes d.
Recorded in Los Angeles in 1949.
Stew Pletcher & His Orchestra - Red Norvo, Director - Bluebird 6343 (1936)
Found out about Stu Pletcher after picking up a copy of Jazz Oracle's cd, The Story Of Stewart Pletcher, a year or so ago.
Since then, I have run across two of the three Bluebird recordings (this one being found over the weekend) he waxed in 1936...on the lookout for number three now.
Stewart Pletcher t, v / Donald McCook cl / Herbie Haymer ts / Roger Ramirez p / Dave Barbour g / Pete Peterson sb / Maurice (Mo) Purtill d / Red Norvo x.
Recorded in New York on March 27, 1936.
Since then, I have run across two of the three Bluebird recordings (this one being found over the weekend) he waxed in 1936...on the lookout for number three now.
Stewart Pletcher t, v / Donald McCook cl / Herbie Haymer ts / Roger Ramirez p / Dave Barbour g / Pete Peterson sb / Maurice (Mo) Purtill d / Red Norvo x.
Recorded in New York on March 27, 1936.
Varsity Eight / Paul Van Loan & His Orchestra - Cameo 750 (1925)
Just got back from my most recent 78 hunting adventure...almost passed out from the heat searching every nook and cranny of an old outbuilding full of all kinds of records and vintage stereo equipment.
Came across this one buried deep in a bunch of maroon King labeled country 78s (for a change, I snatched those up too).
I may be wrong (sometimes Rust's Discographies trip me up on personnel from one recording session to the next) but I believe that Red Nichols is present on the Varsity Eight (a pseudonym for the California Ramblers) side. He allegedly played on a few of Paul Van Loan's (a former trombonist and arranger for Jean Goldkette) recordings but this isn't one of 'em.
Varsity Eight: Red Nichols t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Arnold Brilhart cl, ss, as / Freddy Cusick ts / Adrian Rollini bsx, gfs / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Stan King d, k.
Recorded in New York on June 4, 1925.
Came across this one buried deep in a bunch of maroon King labeled country 78s (for a change, I snatched those up too).
I may be wrong (sometimes Rust's Discographies trip me up on personnel from one recording session to the next) but I believe that Red Nichols is present on the Varsity Eight (a pseudonym for the California Ramblers) side. He allegedly played on a few of Paul Van Loan's (a former trombonist and arranger for Jean Goldkette) recordings but this isn't one of 'em.
Varsity Eight: Red Nichols t / Tommy Dorsey tb / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as / Arnold Brilhart cl, ss, as / Freddy Cusick ts / Adrian Rollini bsx, gfs / Irving Brodsky p / Tommy Felline bj / Stan King d, k.
Recorded in New York on June 4, 1925.
Paul Van Loan & His Orchestra: Paul Van Loan tb, a, dir / Allen McAllister, George Hall t / George Vaughn, Tom Kraus, Glen Wakeman cl, ss, as, ts / Joe Cirina p / Whitey Campbell bj / Ed Grier bb / George Sterinsky d.
Recorded in New York on June 1, 1925.
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