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  • REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    From Roger@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 10 06:57:10 2024
    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to Roger on Wed Jan 10 07:40:50 2024
    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    Here's how the boys did with this one in the 1952 Battle (with a couple of observations made at the
    time :)

    PRELIM
    10 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    8 Ray Charles - Roll With My Baby - Atlantic 976

    R1
    5 Billy Eckstine - Kiss Of Fire - MGM 11225
    13 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447

    R2
    14 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    9 Guy Mitchell - Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania - Columbia 39663

    R3
    12 Perry Como - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - RCA 5064
    13 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447

    Diane's "draggy" (I don't see it Di!) Jesse & Marvin comes back from
    the dead to take this one (Como was leading here for the past 2 days!)

    R4
    8 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    17 Muddy Waters - Country Boy - Chess 1509

    Here's the result that makes Diane's day!!!!!! :)

    And in the later Dazzling Duets Battle

    R1
    7 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    3 The Everly Brothers -- Don't Blame Me -- UK Warner Bros 50 -- 1961

    R2
    10 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    4 Shirley & Lee -- Rockin' With The Clock -- Aladdin 3390 -- 1957

    R3
    9 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    8 Nino Tempo & April Stevens -- Deep Purple -- Atco 6273 -- 1963

    R4
    6 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    15 The Everly Brothers -- Crying In The Rain -- Warner Bros 5250 -- 1961

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 10 07:01:30 2024
    On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:41:33 +0000, soulexpress@gmail.com (Dean)
    wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin: "Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    I concur! That's a terrific record, no matter you look at it.

    The song is about a perceived dream girl who played the perceiver
    for a fool. A bit strange is that the deceived is played by two
    different singers.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Roger on Wed Jan 10 15:39:42 2024
    Roger wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    Here's how the boys did with this one in the 1952 Battle (with a couple of observations made at the
    time :)

    PRELIM
    10 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    8 Ray Charles - Roll With My Baby - Atlantic 976

    R1
    5 Billy Eckstine - Kiss Of Fire - MGM 11225
    13 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447

    R2
    14 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    9 Guy Mitchell - Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania - Columbia 39663

    R3
    12 Perry Como - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - RCA 5064
    13 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447

    Diane's "draggy" (I don't see it Di!) Jesse & Marvin comes back from
    the dead to take this one (Como was leading here for the past 2 days!)

    R4
    8 Jesse & Marvin - Dream Girl - Specialty 447
    17 Muddy Waters - Country Boy - Chess 1509

    Here's the result that makes Diane's day!!!!!! :)

    And in the later Dazzling Duets Battle

    R1
    7 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    3 The Everly Brothers -- Don't Blame Me -- UK Warner Bros 50 -- 1961

    R2
    10 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    4 Shirley & Lee -- Rockin' With The Clock -- Aladdin 3390 -- 1957

    R3
    9 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    8 Nino Tempo & April Stevens -- Deep Purple -- Atco 6273 -- 1963

    R4
    6 Jesse & Marvin -- Dream Girl -- Specialty 447 -- 1952
    15 The Everly Brothers -- Crying In The Rain -- Warner Bros 5250 -- 1961

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

    Yes, me too, and it's also Earl Lewis' all time favorite record.

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Jan 10 16:28:47 2024
    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

    Yes, me too, and it's also Earl Lewis' all time favorite record.

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Interesting as an original version but not in same ballpark as the Jess & Marv version

    I have it as a 6. What release dates do you have on these? I have Nov on the JB and Dec on the J&M

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Roger on Wed Jan 10 16:37:13 2024
    Roger wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

    Yes, me too, and it's also Earl Lewis' all time favorite record.

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Interesting as an original version but not in same ballpark as the Jess & Marv version

    I have it as a 6. What release dates do you have on these? I have Nov on the JB and Dec on the J&M

    No, I have 51 on the Belvin and then a re-release in 52 to compete with the Jesse & Marvin.

    Page 128 of Galen's 1951 book has a big ad that includes the Belvin Dream Girl as RIH 120. Didn't we discuss this recently, you thought the ad was actually from 1952?

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Jan 10 16:55:39 2024
    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

    Yes, me too, and it's also Earl Lewis' all time favorite record.

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Interesting as an original version but not in same ballpark as the Jess & Marv version

    I have it as a 6. What release dates do you have on these? I have Nov on the JB and Dec on the J&M

    No, I have 51 on the Belvin and then a re-release in 52 to compete with the Jesse & Marvin.

    Page 128 of Galen's 1951 book has a big ad that includes the Belvin Dream Girl as RIH 120. Didn't we discuss this recently, you thought the ad was actually from 1952?

    Yes because the ad IS from 1952!! It appears on P.37 in the December 1952 edition and wrongly included in Gart's 1951 book

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  • From Roger@21:1/5 to Roger on Wed Jan 10 16:58:53 2024
    Roger wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Bruce wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/jesse-marvin-dream-girl-specialty-447/#more-98781

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 10/10

    This classic has long been a high 9 on my list

    Yes, me too, and it's also Earl Lewis' all time favorite record.

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Interesting as an original version but not in same ballpark as the Jess & Marv version

    I have it as a 6. What release dates do you have on these? I have Nov on the JB and Dec on the J&M

    No, I have 51 on the Belvin and then a re-release in 52 to compete with the Jesse & Marvin.

    Page 128 of Galen's 1951 book has a big ad that includes the Belvin Dream Girl as RIH 120. Didn't we discuss this recently, you thought the ad was actually from 1952?

    Yes because the ad IS from 1952!! It appears on P.37 in the December 1952 edition and wrongly included in Gart's 1951 book

    I meant it appears in the 6 December 1952 edition of Billboard

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Jan 10 15:14:19 2024
    On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:37:13 +0000, savoybg@aol.com (Bruce) wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Both versions are for *hardcore* fans of post-war R&B
    - as are many of the Samp reviewed songs here.

    For instance (sticking my neck out :), I doubt Bill, Jim, Steve and
    Carl love this 'Dream Girl" the way Bruce, Roger, Diane and Dean do.

    Mainstream 65+ whites, I suggest, would *much* prefer, from c.1952,
    the brighter sounds of, for example:

    Eddie Boyd - Five Long Years
    Ella Fitzgerald - Trying
    Little Esther - Aged And Mellow Blues
    Little Walter - Juke
    Red Foley - Midnight
    Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
    The Four Knights - Cry
    The Dominoes - Pedal Pushin' Papa
    The Four Jacks - Last Of The Good Rockin' Men
    The Mel-O-Dots - Just How Long
    The Swallows - Roll, Roll, Pretty Baby

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to RWC on Thu Jan 11 01:49:03 2024
    RWC wrote:

    On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:37:13 +0000, savoybg@aol.com (Bruce) wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Both versions are for *hardcore* fans of post-war R&B
    - as are many of the Samp reviewed songs here.

    For instance (sticking my neck out :), I doubt Bill, Jim, Steve and
    Carl love this 'Dream Girl" the way Bruce, Roger, Diane and Dean do.

    Wrong as usual. Diane doesn't like "Dream Girl."

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to Bruce on Wed Jan 10 23:42:23 2024
    On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:49:03 +0000, savoybg@aol.com (Bruce) wrote:

    RWC wrote:

    On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:37:13 +0000, savoybg@aol.com (Bruce) wrote:

    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Jesse & Marvin:"Dream Girl" - Specialty 447;NOVEMBER 1952

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXNZXNX9wM

    Of course it's a remake of this version:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTQN4GxAOY

    Both versions are for *hardcore* fans of post-war R&B
    - as are many of the Samp reviewed songs here.

    For instance (sticking my neck out :), I doubt Bill, Jim, Steve and
    Carl love this 'Dream Girl" the way Bruce, Roger, Diane and Dean do.

    Wrong as usual. Diane doesn't like "Dream Girl."

    No, not Wrong as usual, even if Diane doesn't like "Dream Girl".

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