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Topic: 1930s & 40s recordings featuring Letritia Kandle found |
John Norris
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Peterson Strobe Tuners, Illinois, USA
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Paul Warnik
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Illinois,USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 12:12 pm |
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Hello forum friends-
Many have asked in the past few years if any recordings of Letrita existed? In the days following her passing, Her son discovered several old 78 RPM transcription discs with some rare vintage performances, recorded in the mid-1930s thru the early 1940s.
Links to which are provided above.
I'm sure that Letritia would be overjoyed to know that the steel guitar community is now able to hear recordings of her work from long ago.
Enjoy!
PW
Last edited by Paul Warnik on 12 Aug 2010 2:25 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Ron Randall
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Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 12:31 pm
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Paul
WOW
Thanks for sharing
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 1:08 pm
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| For anyone interested, the "Talking Steel Guitar" was invented and used by Alvino Rey in his big Pop Band back in the 30's. Google Alvino Rey and you can see old movies of Alvino and the Talking Guitar. |
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Blake Hawkins
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Florida
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 1:12 pm
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Paul and John, Thanks very much for all the great work and dedication you have done to preserve
the life work of this great lady and musician.
Those tracks are priceless.
Maybe she also influenced Alvino Rey?
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 1:37 pm
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| Farewell Blues has all of Alvino Rey's tricks in it, including pedals, and talking guitar.. then the announcer says "Thank you Alvino Rey" so I don't think that is Letricia. (...same on Stormy Weather) |
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Paul Warnik
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Illinois,USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 2:24 pm
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An error was made and it was detected by Earnest B., apparently the recordings with the Navy Pier Dance Band were performed with Alvino Rey and have been removed so as not to appear as Letritia Kandle's work.
Letritia told me that she played many concerts in aid of the War Bond effort, these shows were also broadcast on the radio. Undoubtedly Alvino Rey also played for the War Bond effort.
Her son mentioned something about one disc without a label or having an illegible label. I will notify her son Bill of the mistake.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 12 Aug 2010 5:24 pm
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Thanx for posting the Kandel recordings, that puts the cherry on top of her incredible story.
Paul, for those of us that missed and would like to also hear the rare Rey recordings, could you post them on a separate thread, please? |
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Posted 21 Jan 2011 5:03 am
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I wish to find out did Letritia play on the Paul Whiteman LP on the Grand Award Label "Hawaiian Magic" 1956
There were 2 Versions, original GA 33-208.... 33-356 (Had 2 extra tracks) is it Letritia Kandle |
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John Norris
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Peterson Strobe Tuners, Illinois, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2011 1:21 pm
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Hi Basil,
According to Paul Warnik, who spoke to Letritia extensively about her career, by 1954 she had left the music business, so its unlikely that she was on the record you mention unless the recording session took place a year or two before the release.
John Norris
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Jeff Mead
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London, England
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Posted 6 Mar 2013 3:51 am
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| Did anyone save these MP3s as they are no longer available via the links in the first post and I'd love to hear them? |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Aaron Jennings
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2013 11:11 am
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Jay,
Thanks for posting this, I had almost given up hope on hearing these. Let us know when you take them out of dropbox, and I'll make them available elsewhere.
I've been looking forward to this for awhile! |
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Jay Fagerlie
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Lotus, California, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2013 11:45 am
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| I'll leave them up for a while- |
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 11 Jun 2020 5:51 pm
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Jay,
I'm glad you saved the Letretia Kandle files, and that they are still up as of June 11, 2020. I will look forward to listening to these. |
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Jacob Chisenhall
From:
East Point, GA
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Posted 8 Aug 2024 7:45 pm Can anyone please send me a link to these recordings?
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| I’d truly love to hear these recordings, could someone please send me a link ? |
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robert kramer
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Nashville TN
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Posted 9 Aug 2024 9:13 am
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Mr. Norris, thank you very much. Excellent! Hey Anthony Lis, it's Bob in Nashville - you won't remember me but Hey.
Here's a recap of photos that have been posted before. To get a perspective of those times, when Letitia Kandle was appearing at Orchestra Hall Tuesday, June 11, 1946, 10 days later, "Jazz at the Philharmonic" with Prez,
Hawk, Shadow Wilson & Co. would be at the Opera House a mile away on the river.
Orchestra Hall 220 South Michigan Ave. Chicago
These photos have bee published many times:
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Anthony Lis
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2024 3:12 pm
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Bob,
I do remember you . . . back in early spring 2019, before I retired from teaching at South Dakota State University, you kindly sent me a copy of the Sherraden, Horvarth, and Kingsbury book on the history of Hatch Snow Print, in thanks for photocopying the articles I wrote for the British West Midlands-based publication "Aloha Dream" on Jimmie Rodgers's ten different steel guitarists. Glad to do that, and I thank you again for the book, which I looked at again a few weeks ago. |
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Jay Coover
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Nashville, TN, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2024 7:58 pm
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Trying to be helpful. It's not great to post links that will die. Links that are IP addresses will die most quickly. My myspace page still sort of works, but that's not where I would post anything I would like to last. Terse statements, but just trying to get to the point. I wanted to hear this, but I cannot.
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 16 Aug 2024 9:16 am
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Anthony, Thanks again for replying and also for providing your "Aloha Dream" newsletter's Jimmie Rodgers's articles. I can't tell you how helpful this has been. It started me researching how the steel got into hillbilly music. This led me to document and write chapters on the first steel players to work Nashville (Hawaiian Vaudevillians and the locals).
I'm trying to cut down text on the first Hawaiians to fit into an SGF post. I thought it be fun to look back for a second, in light of the current boom in the Nashville entertainer industry.
Thanks again, Anthony. The SGF has always been a primary source for steel guitar history. |
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Anthony Lis
From:
South Dakota, USA
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Posted 25 Aug 2024 8:26 pm
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| Robert, good to get an update on your activities. I'll look forward to reading the final version of your SGF post. |
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