Absolute Piffle

General commentary and new links from Richard Gillmann. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's serious, and sometimes it's just there.

Saturday, June 14, 2003

This one cracks me up - a RealAudio of Smile, Darn Ya, Smile as performed by Ben Selvin and his orchestra in 1931. That's the real Sunshine Boys on the vocals, long before the George Burns movie, and who is doing the laughing? Perhaps Selvin himself, but we'll never know. It must have been fun hiring sidemen for Columbia during the Depression: Tommy Dorsey on trombone and Benny Goodman on clarinet.

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