[Dixielandjazz] Dorothy Dell

[Judy Eames]

  On 22/08/2010 01:07, Bill Haesler wrote:
> Katie Cavera asked [in part]:
>> ......I'd like to hear a recording of Dorothy Dell singing "Was I?" which is a Chick Endor and Charlie Farrell song she sang in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1931.
> Dear Katie,
> It's also on one of Limerick Jude's CDs.

Please will everyone just stick to trivia till Bude is over? :-)

Katie's question sent me to Melody Maker 1931..... I trawled through the 
"gramophone" reviews but didn't find anything about D D

My problem is that I always get side- tracked .... this time it was the 
article by Maurice Burman ... Hot Music is it Negroid or Hebrew?  that 
caught my eye.  That should keep you going for a while..... now back to 
1926.

X  jude




> 8>)
> A quick search of the DJML turned up this link:
> http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielandjazz/2005-April/026656.html
>   " "Was I Drunk" (Chick Endor and Charlie Farrell) was discussed on the DJML in
> March 2001 and we tracked it back to singer Dorothy Dell and the Zeigfeld
> Follies 1931. (I have a lot more on this.)
> It has been recorded by:
> Peggy Hill with Eliot Everett&  His Orch. (as "Was I?"). NY. 4 Aug 1932
> Lil Johnson. Chicago. 11 June 1936.
> Georgia White (as "Was I?"). Chicago. 4 Sept 1936
> Turk Murphy. SF. 1966
> George Melly. Feb 1980
> Listmate Judy Eames. 30 Nov 1998
> Madeleine Peyroux. 1996."
> A companion link also reveals that it is in listmate David Littlefield's "Dixieland Fake Book Vol. 2".
> I don't think Dorothy Dell recorded it.
> I will need to check my files, but maybe not today, as it is our weekly Sunday afternoon pub gig.
> More later.
> Very kind regards,
> Bill (the boy from OZ).
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