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20/07/2023 10:45 pm
Lowell Fulson, after T-Bone Walker, was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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21/07/2023 5:16 am
@frank I have copies of Ivory Joe Hunter singing 'Since I Met You Baby' and others, on Alan Freed's Camel Rock 'n' Roll Dance Party - courtesy of U.S. Armed Forces Radio and Television Network : ) - and it's extraordinary how the crowd at New York's Paramount Theatre go crazy - screaming ! ! ! - as he sings his soft ballads.
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21/07/2023 5:25 am
@frank I am seriously jealous of your Pontiac! I've been after the light blue, top down version of this for many years.
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21/07/2023 8:08 am
@mg-harv I don’t have a 48 Cadillac model but I have the perfect record.
1948
One of Jimmy Liggins early releases, “Cadillac Boogie”, was a direct forerunner of “Rocket 88”, itself often called the first rock and roll record.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1QJQ-AO8mo
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
21/07/2023 3:33 pm
Found a '48 Cadillac, though it ain't quite what Detroit produced. I have this one, but no pic of my own yet, so here's one from the internet (by Minichamps).
21/07/2023 4:30 pm
@mg-harv The magnificent work of Jacques Saoutchik. It's not the prettiest of his bodies, but for me this is a master-class in controlling intentionally disparate elements. A bit like a symphony in 3D.
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21/07/2023 9:03 pm
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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21/07/2023 9:06 pm
(I know, the Merc from 49) Song from 48
Mercury KC Douglas
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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21/07/2023 10:11 pm
Back in New Orleans, Quinn contracted tuberculosis. In 1948, Johnny Wiggs brought a recording machine and a trumpet to the hospital and persuaded him to play.[2][4]Quinn died six months later. Many years passed before his performances were released by Fat Cat Jazz on his only album, The Legendary Snoozer Quinn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sb18zpephAM
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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22/07/2023 7:35 pm
1949
Floyd Dixon, the self-dubbed "Mr. Magnificent", signed a recording contract with Modern Records in 1949, specializing in jump blues and sexualized songs like "Red Cherries", "Wine Wine Wine", "Too Much Jelly Roll" and "Baby Let's Go Down to the Woods.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_MyaOhu3A
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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22/07/2023 7:39 pm
1949
Recorded in Detroit, John Lee Hooker’s ”Boogie Chillen'", became a hit and the best-selling race record of 1949.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DDv32Axh-6U
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
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22/07/2023 8:11 pm
Something a little different for our 1940s section: 1942 Renault 4CV Prototype by IDEM & 1941 Sérénade A La Mule by Jacques Météhen with Eva Busch.
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22/07/2023 8:20 pm
A close friend once owned an early sixties Dauphine in 1972. His was black.
Frank Reed
Chesapeake, VA
23/07/2023 7:06 am
@frank The Dauphine was a classic from day 1. It always appears in French movies from '50s & '60s and looks great pootling around the massive Place De La Concorde in pale primrose with wide whitewalls and white roof: Or sailing through the shade of palm trees on the Riviera. It must've looked pretty cool in black, too.