The Image of You Bunny Berigan 1937

[melvind]

Here is a nice 1937 record. A good song with terrific solo sections. Just a typical late 1930s piece that I really enjoyed.

(Double-click the video above or click this link to watch the video on YouTube in HD.)

https://youtu.be/FXIwnc1N-v8

[gramophone-georg]

Here is a nice 1937 record. A good song with terrific solo sections. Just a typical late 1930s piece that I really enjoyed.

(Double-click the video above or click this link to watch the video on YouTube in HD.)

https://youtu.be/FXIwnc1N-v8

These early Victor Berigans are just fantastic IMO. Sue Mitchell, the vocalist, is one of those totally forgotten but intriguing mysteries. She recorded one other side with Berigan that session, "Love Is A Merry Go Round", on Victor 25588. Both are great performances, somewhat Billie Holiday- esque. Those are the only two recordings by Mitchell I have ever been able to find, and all online research just hits an immediate dead end- not even a photo anywhere. I don't think she was a regular vocalist with Berigan- she just seems to have come out of nowhere, sang the chorus on these two tracks, and then left, back into obscurity.

Of course, this band is also fantastic- Larry Clinton is the arranger. It's really too bad that Berigan never really made it into the top tier as a leader- he had some hits, but he also had severe problems with booze. While his sideman records are quite valued among collectors, most collectors aren't all that interested in collecting his recordings as a bandleader, and I have never been able to figure out exactly why.

Thanks for posting this. If you don't have it, I'll try to get time to dig out the other recording of Sue Mitchell with BB and post it.

[melvind]

According to the DAHR database she recorded 3 sides the same day with Berigan. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ ... e_vocalist

One of the sides is the B side of the recorded I transferred. Perhaps I will transfer it as well if I get motivated to do so.

A google search finds the mention of the Sue Mitchell sides recorded and why. It is kind of an interesting story that includes bad reviews and a bad throat for vocalist Carol McKay. https://books.google.com/books?id=wnY1Y ... an&f=false

It is amazing that that seems to be all she recorded.

[gramophone-georg]

According to the DAHR database she recorded 3 sides the same day with Berigan. https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ ... e_vocalist

One of the sides is the B side of the recorded I transferred. Perhaps I will transfer it as well if I get motivated to do so.

A google search finds the mention of the Sue Mitchell sides recorded and why. It is kind of an interesting story that includes bad reviews and a bad throat for vocalist Carol McKay. https://books.google.com/books?id=wnY1Y ... an&f=false

It is amazing that that seems to be all she recorded.

Forgot about the flip also being Mitchell. That'll teach me to post things from memory. Thanks for that link about Mitchell- in all my Google searches it never showed up.

[marcapra]

Most antique record collectors tend to avoid swing music because it's common and doesn't sound good on their hand crank phonographs. In fact, when you see record collectors post want ads for 78s, they often say "no classical and no big band".

[gramophone-georg]

Most antique record collectors tend to avoid swing music because it's common and doesn't sound good on their hand crank phonographs. In fact, when you see record collectors post want ads for 78s, they often say "no classical and no big band".

It's getting less and less common, it seems. Have you seen the prices for a clean copy of Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing" or Glenn Miller's "In The Mood" lately?

It's funny, but I have always collected Depression era classical and early Swing records but the competition seems to get stiffer for these every week on eBay.

[melvind]

Most antique record collectors tend to avoid swing music because it's common and doesn't sound good on their hand crank phonographs. In fact, when you see record collectors post want ads for 78s, they often say "no classical and no big band".

They sound fantastic on my Credenza! Well, it has an electric motor, but it is acoustic and made to play the later records. I must admit I like jazz/popular music from 1925 to about 1935 the best. Much after that, while I still like them, they just seem to new for what I collect. I do not have any amplified era phonographs, but I do like to transfer electrically recorded records from the 20s and 30s with my 3 year old turntable. The results can be something wonderful.