Chas
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One of the best CD sets, ever. It will get me through this night shift at the hospital.
Eva Morsikova said:A 78 featuring Rachmaninoff's Sorrow In Springtime (Op. 21/12 No.12). One of many of his works that will bring me to tears; it's beautiful, it's tragic and it's elegant all at once.
Of course, just change it to "She" and he could have been singing about a WASP.LizzieMaine said:78s to wonder "What Were They Thinking?" by --
Starting off in 1942 with a smooth Kay Kyser recording of "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings." One of the great romantic ballads of the war era about being oh-so-in-love with a dashing manly pilot -- sung here without the slightest trace of irony by Harry Babbitt. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
Baur was apparently known to be (quietly) gay (hang with 78 nuts in New York and you learn these things whether you care or not), so he wouldn't have been too wild a guess, really.Next, back to 1927 with Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra and one of the hit tunes from "Show Boat." If you were to take a guess as to who might have been the very first vocalist ever to record "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," I'm pretty sure you *wouldn't* guess Franklyn Baur.