{"id":564,"date":"2011-09-17T03:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T08:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T01:41:50","slug":"ethel-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Decca<\/a><\/p>\n

“Tico Tico”
\nEthel Smith
\n1944 (Decca 23353-A mx L 3423)
\nEthel Smith – Tico Tico]<\/a><\/p>\n

“1 Lero Lero \/2 Bem Te Vi Atrevido”
\nEthel Smith
\n1944 (Decca 23353-A mx L 3425)
\nEthel Smith – 1 Lero Lero 2 Bem Te Vi Atrevido]<\/a><\/p>\n

“The Parrot (On The Fortune Teller’s Hat)”
\nEthel Smith
\n1945 (Decca 23462-A mx 72963)
\nEthel Smith – The Parrot]<\/a><\/p>\n

“Dinorah”
\nEthel Smith
\n1946 (\u00a0Decca 23549-B mx 73291)
\nEthel Smith – Dinorah]<\/a><\/p>\n

These particular recordings have a certain sentimental value to me.\u00a0 They come from a four 78 rpm album set entitled Ethel Smith Souvenir Album<\/em>.\u00a0 The very first 78 rpm record purchase I made when I was a child was that album which contained three of the four original records plus a different Ethel Smith record that was not part of the album set.\u00a0 I purchased them in a charity garage sale and paid a grand total of ten cents for all of them. \u00a0 I still have the album book but all of the records in it managed to get broken over the years.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last year I obtained another copy of the album set with all four of the records.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t say that the Ethel Smith records were what spurred my interest in vintage recordings – a program on a local radio station is what started that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I thought the records were very cool because someone told me that they were “antiques” and because I finally had something to play using the 78 rpm speed on my turntable which I had previously used only to make “normal” speed records sound funny.<\/p>\n

Ethel Smith<\/a> was an organist who became popular in the 1940s.\u00a0 Her recording of “Tico Tico” – a song which she performed in the 1944 MGM film Bathing Beauty<\/em><\/a> – sold over a million copies.\u00a0 You can watch a clip from Bathing Beauty<\/em> on YouTube of Smith performing “Tico Tico” at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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