{"id":4900,"date":"2021-07-10T00:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2021-07-16T01:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T19:00:02","slug":"some-forgotten-songbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/falseducks.com\/theblahg\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"SOME FORGOTTEN SONGBIRDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0What do you write a blahg about when you’re not sure what to write about?\"Scott\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 Here it is the first full week of July, 2021, in a heat-wave and I need a brain-wave.\u00a0 I’ve done the inspirational recently and looked at the world situation until I’m tired of looking at it.\u00a0 I got my second vaccine last week, Moderna, and had no reaction.\u00a0 So that story is put to bed.\u00a0 By the way, get a vaccine.\u00a0 So what do I want to talk about?\u00a0 Well you know me, it’s all about the music.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 This blahg is going to be another of those, “gee, I haven’t even heard of them” blahgs.\u00a0 At the end of April I published “SOME FORGOTTEN BANDS\u2026WITH A NOD TO LINDA KEENE<\/a>” and brought to life some information and songs by some long lost bands.\u00a0 This time I thought I would look at some of the lost singers from around the big band era.\u00a0 Recently I was cleaning out an email folder and there was this email that I had sent myself with the subject “Kay Foster.”\u00a0 I don’t know when I sent it to myself or even why.\u00a0 That was probably the inspiration for this blahg so I’m going to start with her.\u00a0 This is her obituary from The Washington Post on April 20th, 2002:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Katherine Peterson<\/em><\/h4>\n

Big Band Singer<\/em><\/h4>\n

Katherine Peterson, 84, who as Kay Foster sang in the 1930s and 1940s with the big bands of Artie Shaw, Tony Pastor, Les Brown and Benny Goodman, died April 14 at her home in Madison Heights, Mich., after a heart attack.<\/em><\/h4>\n

Mrs. Peterson, a soprano, was married to Chuck Peterson, a trumpet player in bands led by Shaw, Pastor, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman and Benny Carter.<\/em><\/h4>\n

She made headlines in 1937 when Bruno of Hollywood, the photographer, told reporters Mrs. Peterson had “the best-looking legs of any girl band vocalist in America.”<\/em><\/h4>\n

If you look at Kay Foster’s Discogs entry, you get this:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\n Louisiana Purchase <\/span> Tony Pastor And His Orchestra<\/a> – <\/span> Louisiana Purchase \/ The Lord Done Fixed Up My Soul<\/a> \u200e(Shellac, 10″)<\/span><\/td>\nBluebird (3)<\/a><\/td>\nB-10725<\/td>\n1940<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n\"Kay<\/td>\n Georgie Auld And His Orchestra<\/a> – <\/span> Angel \/ I Want My Mama <\/a> \u200e(Shellac, 10″)<\/span><\/td>\nVarsity<\/a><\/td>\n8152<\/td>\n1940<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n \"Kay <\/span> <\/a><\/td>\n On A Simmery Summery Day <\/span> Tony Pastor And His Orchestra<\/a> – <\/span> On A Simmery Summery Day \/ I Bought A Wooden Whistle<\/a> \u200e(Shellac, 10″)<\/span><\/td>\nBluebird (3)<\/a><\/td>\nB-10747<\/td>\n1940<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n \"Kay <\/span> <\/a><\/td>\n Imagination and 4 more\u2026<\/a> <\/span> Georgie Auld<\/a> – <\/span> 1940-1945<\/a> \u200e(CD, Comp)<\/span><\/td>\nClassics (11)<\/a><\/td>\nCLASSICS 1322<\/td>\n2003<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I know this isn’t complete by any means because I found the following song, “It Never Entered My Mind” that Kay Foster did with Tony Pastor in 1940.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"It<\/a><\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/78_it-never-entered-my-mind_tony-pastor-and-his-orchestra-kay-foster-lorenz-hart-richa_gbia0159228a\/_78_it-never-entered-my-mind_tony-pastor-and-his-orchestra-kay-foster-lorenz-hart-richa_gbia0159228a_01_3.8_CT_EQ.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

I wasn’t able to find a location to stream “Louisiana Purchase” or “On A Simmery Summery Day” which Kay Foster also recorded with Tony Pastor.\u00a0 Moving on to her recordings with Georgie Auld and staying with 1940, I was able to find “Angel”:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here we’ll have to rely on a YouTube Audio Video:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n