Yesterday I featured the world-famous team of Jimmy Jett, the Three of Us, and Sherry Martin doing a fake-hit version of the 1952 Red Saunders hit Hambone. I couldn't find a decent transfer of the original Saunders record at Youtube, so I did my own. And here it is. I included the rocking flip side, Boot 'Em Up.
Also, a 1953 side, The Baion, which refers to a Brazilian beat later used by Burt Bacharach in (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa, and likely others. I wonder if Burt heard this record. For some unknown reason, my memory told me this particular 78 was by Les Brown and his Orchestra. Don't ask me. I guess it's because "Les Brown" sounds so much like "Paulo Alencar."
I must remember not to rely on my memory....
As I noted in the previous Hambone post, the Bo Diddley beat heard on Hambone had been showing up in pop music for decades--it's on Andre Kostelanetz's 1935 Rumba Fantasy, for instance. This takes nothing away from Bo (Ellas McDaniel), who used it to make one hell of a great single.
LINK: Hambone, The Baion
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7 comments:
Baion - I was trying to remember the name of that rhythm when you mentioned Hambone. Did you identify it back when you posted the Bacharach tunes?
You may have thought of Les Brown because he was recording for Coral at about the same time as this Paulo Alencar single.
I think that's exactly what happened--the Coral/Les Brown connection.
No, I'd remembered there was a certain rhythm (this one) that Burt was known for using, but I couldn't recall the name. Except that it started with a b!
Yes, I had exactly the same reaction. I'm glad you remembered the name!
Hambone, WITH Bacon . . .???
NO, can't be . .
Sorry, I shouldn't be reading this stuff in low light before supper . . .
One of "The Hambone Kids" on your '52 Saunders side (no, not of Bacon...), "Delecta Clark" is none other than Dee "Raindrops" Clark - it's his very first rekkid!
Cool! The label credits are so weirdly laid out, I just stuck to the main ones--Saunders, Hawkins, and the "Hambone Kids." I knew there was someone fairly famous on this, but couldn't remember who. Thanks!
Incredible side, and I was surprised when I couldn't find a decent file at YouTube. Get a good budget turntable, use a decent cartridge and 78 stylus, and pay a small sum for a program (like VinylStudio) that allows the response curve to be adjusted. Rocket science it is not. Some people must hold up microphones to vintage phonographs....
Somewhere I have Phil Harris doing this with some kids, though I can't think of which kids at the moment. Must have been someone associated with Jack Benny somehow. The Hambone song, I mean, not a Baion. :)
bookmarked!!, I love your site!
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