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№ 1 Потанцуем - Ланни Дей
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Lenny Dee And His D-Men – Goodnight Irene / Steppin' Out
Лейбл: Decca – 60.535
Формат: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Single
Страна: Belgium
Дата релиза: 1959
Содержание
A. Goodnight Irene
Written-By – Ledbetter, Lomax
B. Steppin' Out
Written-By – Starr
Над релизом работали
Organ, Soloist – Lenny Dee
Billy Starr
Настоящее имя: - James William Stallard
Профиль:
James William Stallard, on December 30, 1913 in Wesleyville (Kentucky). Billy Starr is deceased on June 4, 1981.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eYU4_mFRLs
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"Steppin' Out" [Потанцуем - Let's Dance] - Lenny Dee, organ, 1959 Soviet compilation LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axj-XmsLsmg
This record is an interesting combination...foxtrot cover of country music on Hammond organ, issued on a Russian record...
The song is "Steppin' Out", written by Billy Starr [James William Stallard, or Bill Stallard, Stollard, Billie Starr, Staar, Star], played by Hammond organist Lenny Dee, and issued on a Soviet LP, edition 4 in the "Around the World" [Вокруг Света] series, where each track represents a country.
The label calls it "Потанцуем", which translates to "Let's Dance", and the country assigned is England, oddly enough...but Lenny Dee [DeStoppelaire] was born in Chicago to Belgian parents, and his career was primarily recording and performing in the United States. The transliteration into Russian, oddly, is "Lanny Dei" [Ланни Дей]...despite other Russian issues of Dee's work having a more accurate transliteration [though I wonder if "Dei" was meant to sound like De in DeStoppelaire...but they beat Yanny/Laurel by 50 years].
The song itself was recorded earlier in the decade [one of several Starr versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK5oJ... here], with covers and translations from numerous other artists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RAJT... by Mel Tillis, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjdgA... "Zie-De Gij Me Gere" by Will Ferdy, "Dis-Moi Que Tu M'Aimes" by Yvette Horner & Co on Pathe, and others. The European versions seem to be more in line with the ragtime, fox trot, Western swing take Dee puts on it.
The label itself is interesting. The Ligo imprint was used by the Riga, Latvia-based recording studio and pressing plant [formerly home to Bellacord Electro], and the seagull logo is an interesting throwback to Grey Gull Records in the US. Likewise, its sister label Melodija used a treble clef with record, much the same as Emerson...
As it turns out, the decision to assign this song to represent England may have resulted from the Soviets dubbing this from an English pressing, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eYU4... - and possibly thinking he was English [or not bothering to look for another song].
The retitled version "Let's Dance" is a bit of a mystery - since there weren't lyrics in Dee's version, perhaps they thought it fitting to assign a new title based on the nature of the song? Did "Steppin' Out" [referring to the singer's partner cheating on him] come across as a reference to dance-step, or did the Soviets think a song referring to cheating on someone's partner was inappropriate, so they took initiative to strip it of that context? Was there any translation that fit other than "Let's Dance"? Whatever the case may be, the record was popular in Russia as a foxtrot single paired with a medley by Vyacheslav Mescherin's Electronic Music Ensemble. The LP album was pressed in other factories [Kharkiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72DX... for one] and the single was issued as a 78rpm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uf31... with По Набережной flipside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gP1M...
Billy Starr, stage name of James William Stallard, Indian Bill, or whatever other variation [the Russians call him Стар, conjugated Стара], was an early figure in country music from Kentucky. He appeared on several labels, with his greatest popularity in the 1940s-60s. He continued performing even as larger stars began to eclipse him.
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К № 1. Много раз безуспешно искал в сети оригинал этой записи или хотя бы ее оригинальное название. Если у кого-то из "завалинцев" есть интересующая меня информация, прошу поделиться. Кстати, оркестр в записи отсутствует. Звучит только электроорган и ударный инструмент, который может быть запрограммирован в органе.