Volume 11 , Issue 15

Dear Duchess

Saturday kept me and Sadie busy watching the Junco birds and gray squirrel with only a patio glass door separating us., flatten your nose into the glass. Next weekend they tell me we will be "On the Road between SW Colorado and NW Oklahoma.

The Junco's and Squirrel were feeding in our Spring Snow storm that dropped over 2-inches of snow North of Bayfield. Easter Sunday turned out nice and sunny, though, melting away the Saturday snow.

This Dizzy Duchess missed the Friday evening Gray Fox that came strolling through our backyard and the buck and deer that came 15-minutes later. I was asleep in the recliner taking a well-deserved snooze.

NW Okie has been busy this week watching wildlife, snow and transferring 78rpm records to mp3 files. I have had to get nose-to-nose and eye-to-eye with her a few times this week to just remind her it was time to feed this Dizzy Duchess. My Human calls me "Dizzy" because when she is fixing my dinner my body turns in a couple of circles just before she sets the dish down in front of me. Hmmmmmm....mmmm....good!

I am including in this week's newsletter a few of NW Okie's favorite 78rpm records that she has transferred to mp3 files over at PBPartnsersllc.org. They are Here Comes Malicious 12-16-1938 @ Tanforan and Here Comes Malicious 1-14-1939 @ Santa Anita.

The story of "Malicious" concerns one of the great race horses of that era, narrated by Joe Hernandez, the "Voice of Santa Anita", that opens with the race at the Tanfaran track in northern California where "Malicious" broke the track record. The second mp3 is "Here Comes Malicious 1/14/1939" was at the Santa Anita race track.

Does anyone out there remember "Oklahoma Ed Moody," a 1940's Country music singer that recorded about 20 songs for various record labels during this period, some of which he wrote. Was he an Oklahoman? Is that why he was called "Oklahoma Ed Moody?"

The 78rpm that NW OKie has acquired is a 78rpm record with Oklahoma Hills on one side and Careless Darlin on the other side.

My Human also has a 78rpm record of the "Almanac Singers Talking Union." The following information concerning THE ALMANAC SINGERS TALKING UNION (Keynote Album 106), recorded May 1941, at an unidentified Central Park West studio; Producer: Eric Bernay; Released: July 1941; Pete Seeger, vocal/banjo; Lee Hays, vocal; Millard Lampell, vocal; Josh White, guitar/vocal; Sam Gary, Carol White, Bess Lomax Hawes, vocal was extracted from the following link - geocities.com/nashville/3448/union.html.

That website says, "Talking Union" went on sale in June 1941 and became the Almanac Singers most enduring album, remaining in the Keynote catalog until Mercury absorbed the label in 1948. Six years later Moe Asch borrowed Seeger's copy of the album for a Folkways reissue. That version -- drenched in echo and using an expurgated "Talking Union" -- is the one best known to listeners."
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