79 tracks and 3 1/3 hours of music. Camille Howard was the rocking pianist in Roy Milton's Solid Senders as well as recording tracks under her own name and release. Included here are her solo releases and the tracks she did with Roy Milton & His Solid Senders on which she sang. For about 25 years I was missing one side of one of her 1948 78 rpm Specialty releases before finally tracking down a near mint 70 year old copy from a guy in the Netherlands. In the early 90's there were a couple CD's released of some her Specialty recordings and for some reason the 1949 song I'll Cry Over You was issued on both volumes, resulting in sessionographers listing it as two separate recordings. The one on Vol. 2 sounds better, but it's the same recording. If you open both files in a wav editor and play each one a few seconds at a time, you'll hear for yourself. I've got a Rane ME60 EQ wired into my 8-channel mixer and it's very easy to change the sound of any recording, but it doesn't make it a different take. I believe another mistake shown in the various publications is the 1949 song Going Home Blues which is shown as appearing on Specialty 309. That may have resulted from a clerical error, but any copy of Specialty 309 that I've come across has always been Has Your Love Grown Cold / Barcarolle Boogie.
Thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteThe 309 coupling “Going Home Blues”/“Barcarolle Boogie” was listed in Billboard’s Advance Race Records Releases on 31/07/48 and 07/08/48 but the actual release was as stated by you (on 9/10/48 BB had advert of this coupling and CB showed titles in various local R&B Top 10s).
Back in 1963 Jepsen listed that advance coupling in his Jazz Records and since then (50+ years!) everyone has just lifted it from there or from each other. As a result we get 195 hits on Google for a track that doesn’t exist.
Still enjoying the Toons.
Well if it was in print it MUST be true, right? But seriously, those discog type projects are so massive you have to expect some mistakes.
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