This or That

[vitanola]

Led variously by Rosario Bourdon, Nat Shilkret and Leonard Joy among others, Victor had, by far, the finest studio orchestra to back their artists. Leroy Shields who went on to compose much of the music for Laurel & Hardy, the Our Gang and other Hal Roach comedies was also a musical director for Victor.

Ah yes. But Columbia had Whiteman (after 1928) Ben Selvin leading its excellent studio orchestra, the English Columia symphonic catalog, and those lovely, silent surfaces! " I could be happy wi' either, 'twer t'other dear charmer away!"

Vitaphone or Photophone?

 

[Formeruser012523]

Pardon?

Shoes, of course. Romeos or carpet slippers when in déshabillé.

Shoes are overrated. Bare feet when in Texas. :biggrin:

 

[vitanola]

Randolph Sutton -- Put Your Worries Through The Mangle

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Mother, Mother, Mother bring the washing in
It's going on to rain
Let's sit round the kitchen bar
And sing this old refrain

Put your worries through the mangle
Like Mother does on washing day
When you're in an awful tangle
Just wash the blues away
Though the sun is shining through the window pane
When Mother hangs the washing out it always rains
Put your worries through the mangle
Like Mother does on washing day

Father has his dinner off the mantle shelf
On Mother's washing day
Does he worry? Not at all
You'll only hear him say

Put your worries through the mangle
Like Mother does on washing day
When you're in an awful tangle
Just wash the blues away
Though the sun is shining through the window pane
When Mother hangs the washing out it always rains
So put your worries through the mangle
Like Mother does on washing day

In Great Britain the word "Mangle" refers to the device that we here in the 'states would generally call a "Wringer". American household wringers were lighter and smaller than their English counterparts, usually being fashioned of wood with relatively small India-rubber rollers, of perhaps two inches in diameter and twelve or at most fourteen inches in length. British and Continental mangles were usually rather substantial iron contraptions, with four or five inch diameter steel rollers.

Here in the USA ther term "Mangle" was generally reserved for an ironing machine, which consisted of a padded roller of six or seven inches in diameter which is rotated by an electric motor. Against this rotating roll is p
placed a heated steel shoe. A mangle or Ironer makes, as Miss Maine pointed out, the ironing of flat-work such as sheets, towels and table linens a breeze, but it also allows one to make short work of shirts dresses and trousers, which complicated pieces only require touching up with a conventional iron around the yokes, collars and cuffs.

 

[vitanola]

Shoes are overrated. Bare feet when in Texas. :biggrin:

No doubt.

 

[rue]

Shoes are overrated. Bare feet when in Texas. :biggrin:

or pregnant in the kitchen

Annette Hanshaw or Ruth Etting?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Annette Hanshaw

Bing Crosby or Al Bowlly?
as Al Bowlly was often compared to Bing Crosby

 

[vitanola]

Annette Hanshaw

Bing Crosby or Al Bowlly?
as Al Bowlly was often compared to Bing Crosby

Bing, especially the young, jazzy, pre-Decca Bing, though Bowly can have a pretty sensational way around a melody.

 

[rue]

It was too hard of a choice for me


Jimmy or Tommy Dorsey?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Vitaphone or Photophone?

If I'm projecting, Photophone. If I'm paying to see the film, Vitaphone, which had infinitely better sound quality until the advent of "Western Electric Noiseless Recording."

Moran or Mack?

 

[vitanola]

If I'm projecting, Photophone. If I'm paying to see the film, Vitaphone, which had infinitely better sound quality until the advent of "Western Electric Noiseless Recording."

Moran or Mack?

That's a stumper. Mack, I think. (wasn't he the straight man?)

Wheeler or Woolsey?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Neither Moran nor Mack was a straight man. Both sagged in the middle. (Why bring that up?)

Woolsey. An exceptional eccentric dancer, and any actor who can kiss the leading lady without taking his cigar out of his mouth is worthy of respect.

Clark or McCullough?

 

[vitanola]

It was too hard of a choice for me


Jimmy or Tommy Dorsey?

Dorsey Brothers

While both had wonderful orchestras after they went their separate ways, and I love Edythe Wright, something about the Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly vocal team forces me to choose JD.

I am inclined to prefer pre-1934 music, and so the Dorsey Brothers stuff is more my style.

 

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Dorsey Brothers

While both had wonderful orchestras after they went their separate ways, and I love Edythe Wright, something about the Helen O'Connell & Bob Eberly vocal team forces me to choose JD.

I am inclined to prefer pre-1934 music, and so the Dorsey Brothers stuff is more my style.

Great answer! I agree

 

[LizzieMaine]

The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra is the way to go. And Kay Weber was one of the best girl singers ever.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Woolsey. An exceptional eccentric dancer, and any actor who can kiss the leading lady without taking his cigar out of his mouth is worthy of respect.

Bonus: Robert Woolsey's widow, an ex-Broadway showgirl, made millions from betting on the stock market -- mostly from her bedroom telephone.


(My friend sold this woman's estate. Ended up with Robert Woolsey's home bar.)

 

[vitanola]

Neither Moran nor Mack was a straight man. Both sagged in the middle. (Why bring that up?)

Woolsey. An exceptional eccentric dancer, and any actor who can kiss the leading lady without taking his cigar out of his mouth is worthy of respect.

Clark or McCullough?

Bobby Clark.

I'm a simple man, and find grease painted "Roydo" glasses to be inherently funny.

Irving or Jack Kaufman?

 

[Formeruser012523]

or pregnant in the kitchen

HA! um...no. :laugh:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Jack.


Émile Coué or Tony Robbins?

 

[vitanola]

Jack.


Émile Coué or Tony Robbins?

Every day in every way I'm getting better and better.

Coue, of course.

A leer or a deprecating Moue?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Wheeler or Woolsey?

Without a doubt Wheeler!

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