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Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:24 pm
by Marc Hildebrant
Group,
Over 50 years ago, I would help sort my father's old record collection of Edison Cylinder records. My father, born in 1920, told me to tell him if I ever found a song by Wendell Hall entitled " It Ain't Gonna Rain No'Mor'".
It was a favorite of his. I never did.
Many years later, I made a recording of the song on a Diamond Disc from 1923. My father grew up dirt poor on a farm in South Dakota, and he must have heard this song as a child.
Marc
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:32 pm
by JerryVan
I have liked this song since I was a kid. Of course, as a small kid, I broke the copy I had, (a 78). I've found many replacements over the years, but none containing a certain verse that I remember from my long-ago broken copy. "... frog sittin' on a lily pad, lookin' up at the sky, lily pad broke, frog fell in, got water in his eye..."
The version in your link is very different than the one I once listened to.
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:55 pm
by shopdoc
Marc Hildebrant wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:24 pm
Group,
Over 50 years ago, I would help sort my father's old record collection of Edison Cylinder records. My father, born in 1920, told me to tell him if I ever found a song by Wendell Hall entitled " It Ain't Gonna Rain No'Mor'".
It was a favorite of his. I never did.
Many years later, I made a recording of the song on a Diamond Disc from 1923. My father grew up dirt poor on a farm in South Dakota, and he must have heard this song as a child.
Marc
It Ain't Gonna' Rain No Mo' .mp3
Dad used to play it on the ukelele and we'd all sing along. Nice memory.
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 3:00 pm
by shopdoc
shopdoc wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:55 pm
Dad used to play it on the ukelele and we'd all sing along. Nice memory.
Blue Amberol 4324. No idea if it was on 2 min cylinders.
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:14 pm
by jamiegramo
Blue Amberol 4824 performed by Wendell Hall from Diamond Disc 51261.
& Blue Amberol 4935 performed by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare from Diamond Disc 51430.
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:28 pm
by shopdoc
jamiegramo wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:14 pm
Blue Amberol 4824 performed by Wendell Hall from Diamond Disc 51261.
& Blue Amberol 4935 performed by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare from Diamond Disc 51430.
I bow to your expertise. Actually, my spreadsheet has 4824 and 4324 as Wendall Hall. But I can't guarantee its error-free.
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:52 pm
by Lucius1958
JerryVan wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:32 pm
I have liked this song since I was a kid. Of course, as a small kid, I broke the copy I had, (a 78). I've found many replacements over the years, but none containing a certain verse that I remember from my long-ago broken copy. "... frog sittin' on a lily pad, lookin' up at the sky, lily pad broke, frog fell in, got water in his eye..."
The version in your link is very different than the one I once listened to.
I've got that one: it was on Victor, with the B[?] side, 'Red Headed Music Maker'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5lMEYthXlQ
- Bill
Re: Wendell Hall Found after Many Years
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2025 4:58 am
by jamiegramo
shopdoc wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 5:28 pm
jamiegramo wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:14 pm
Blue Amberol 4824 performed by Wendell Hall from Diamond Disc 51261.
& Blue Amberol 4935 performed by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare from Diamond Disc 51430.
I bow to your expertise. Actually, my spreadsheet has 4824 and 4324 as Wendall Hall. But I can't guarantee its error-free.
‘8’ and ‘3’ often look similar on the embossed end of cylinders. I believe your spreadsheet should have 4324 as ‘I was born in Michigan’ performed by ‘The Premier Quartet’.