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    12/10/2019 5:51 pm  #1

    David Lobosco
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    The Birth Of The Blues - January 18, 1951

    One of the better radio adaptation of a film was of The Birth Of The Blues by the Screen Guild Players. There was more great jazz music in the radio broadcast than in the movie. 

    The radio show starred Bing, Dinah Shore, Phil Harris, and Red Nichols.

    Here are some of the highlights. My You Tube channel has 9 of the songs from the broadcast...



     

     

    12/10/2019 5:52 pm  #2

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    28/10/2019 6:49 am  #5

    Graham Pascoe
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    Re: The Birth Of The Blues - January 18, 1951

    Thanks David for enabling me to hear those versions of the songs for the first time. I see from Malcolm's BING CROSBY. DAY BY DAY that the excellent accompaniment was by Red Nicholls and his Five Pennies. As usual. you found some beaut photos to  go with the music and I don't recall seeing a photo of such a young Phil Harris before. Did you know that Harris was in Australia in 1927 playing drums with Carroll Lofner's Orchestra?

     

    28/10/2019 2:09 pm  #6

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    Re: The Birth Of The Blues - January 18, 1951

    Glad you liked it! There is so much great radio material still out there waiting to be discovered!

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