Happy New Year Brother Carmen Lombardo, Grady Martin and the Slew Foot Five, as they perform the song Coquette written by C. Lombardo, Gus Kahn & Johnny Green.
Carmen is Guy Lombardos younger brother. He often sang in Guys bands in the early days but later formed his own bands and sang with others.
Carmen was known for his guitar playing style and especially his attention to the diction in his vocal. This song is a cover of an earlier version by Guy and Carmen and it's the version that Mark and I prefer hands down. It's more \"rockin\".
Recorded from a 78 r.p.m. Black Decca record.
Personality Series.
Years before I started working at the (now defunct) book & record store, I used to visit there as often as I could. On one occasion I met the man who was running the bookstore at that time. During our conversation I had asked about 78 rpm records, he said that he had many upstairs but no one goes up there without his consent. That seemed to be that....until one day he approaches with a proposition, I go through his mess of 78's, straighten it up so that he could present his collection to buyers and I get a deal on any 78's that I might want...except I was to give him all of the SUN label records. I accepted with the understanding that if he was selling any of his SUN records that I would have a chance at them once he had them appraised. Well, I found several and he never offered one back....he just sold them off.
I used to spend hours in a dusty/musty dark room (upstairs of the record store, before & during the time i worked there) going through thousands trying to guess which one is worth the effort... you have to, there was literally thousands waiting to be discarded. I just can't process the thought of what didn't get saved!
